Friday July 25, 2008 at 10:19
“Text messaging and walking at the same time, it turns out, can be hazardous to both the Blackberry-wielding pedestrians and passersby. An article in The Wall Street Journal today describes several mobile mishaps. For instance, Mike Munoz, a 44-year-old car-dealership manager in suburban Portland, Ore., describes walking smack into the bride at a wedding while he’s texting.”
LiveScience.com Blogs » Blog Archive » The Perils of Text Messaging While Walking
I am seriously guilty of looking at my phone while walking. I probably read 50 news items this way, bumbling down 3rd street going in to work. My problem isn’t that I actually hit stuff, it’s that when I’ve been looking down and I look up and see something sort of close to me, it freaks me out that I might hit it and I take evasive maneuvers. So I end up dodging poles and juking stollers that are 7 feet away. Tree branches, with all those shaking leaves, are particularly problematic for my phone-addled vision.
