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We Really Need to Stop Doing This in the Street.
Or we will get splattered.
A few weeks ago, while walking home, I decided to look up something on my phone. I couldn’t wait until I got home. Oh no, that kind of patience no longer exists.
The next minute, I was stumbling to the ground. My impatience has resulted in months of damaged intercostal muscles. It has been an unpleasant and painful lesson.
This morning, waiting for traffic lights to change, a man, staring at his phone, tripped and fell headlong into the path of an oncoming bus. Luckily, the bus stopped just in time for him not to get squished. I grabbed his glasses, which had fallen into the road, and my boyfriend retrieved his phone from the tarmac as the man pulled himself up and dusted himself down. We handed his belongings back to him and checked to see if he was OK, which luckily he was.
He seemed OK, but as I well know, going forward, that trip could cost him months of pain or discomfort. You don’t always know the damage you have done at the time.
A moment’s inattention to your surroundings could change or even end your life in an instant.
The man from this morning and I have one thing in common: we both need to change. If we need or want to look at our phones, we should stop walking, check if our…
