You walk around taking a gander at your smartphone. It has all your favorite shiny and sparkly things on it! You can even update your Facebook status! WHAT!? You mean that there is a technology that is completely portable that connects to the interwebs, let's you communicate in a non verbal AND a verbal fashion?! Yes, yes there is.
But this amazingly awesome technology has a down fall. That's right, it's dangerous. It will hypnotize you! You will be completely under it's control! When you stare at this device, you can't look up. You can't pay attention to anything else in your life! I've seen it myself. In fact it happened today.
As I'm driving home through a strip mall near my house a young man in Texas Longhorns zip up hoodie, (The fact that he was wearing a Longhorns hoodie has no bearing, or does it?!) was walking along in the middle of the drive. In the exact middle. I started driving really slow, and then came to a complete stop, because he didn't look up. So I waited. He kept coming. Looking like a penguin who has just been yelled at by his lady penguin for ogling another lady penguin. Like it's his fault! I mean, they all look the same! Anyways, back to the young man. He just kept walking towards me, still not looking up. As I'm still stopped, in the middle of the street mind you, he never turns his eyes upward, until he actually walks into my car. This guy, actually ran into a parked car in the middle of the street.
Seriously? I've heard stories, hell I just heard one about a lady in Australia walking off a pier into the ocean, because she was staring at her phone. Go and Google walking and texting. No, seriously, minimize this blog and go look it up. I'll wait.
It pulls up 27,000,000 results. You realize that number is pronounced twenty seven MILLION? That's with an 'M', and one of the very first stories is titled, "Texting Nearly As Dangerous While Walking As Driving". AND it's published by FORBES! FORBES! One more time so you really understand, FORBES.
This has become such a pandemic, that Forbes Magazine has had to bring this up and publish an online article about it. People, I know that whatever T.O. is saying is a train wreck and you want to watch Kim Kardashian do something stupid on tv. Maybe even watch Kanye jump on stage and ridicule someone other than Taylor Swift, but please, please don't be stupid enough to walk into a parked car in the middle of a street, or walk off a pier, or even into a glass door. Just look up.
This has been a public service announcement brought to you by Clif Foster.
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