I would like to make fun of walking and texting, but I don't think anyone who has engaged in intense reflection while on a walk has much room to talk. Ever tried to ponder Being and Time during a rush-hour walk?

Idiots.

It's just Darwin using the Dumbassometer to winnow and sift.

Funny how it's only women who seem to be affected by this disorder.

At least that's what TFA would seem to infer...

Am I the only one who is annoyed at the number of green headlines containing misspellings and atrocious grammar?

It's almost as if they do it just to spite me.

*shifts eyes*

Cell phones are one of the worst inventions ever. Seriously, just go to where you need to be, then talk.

FTA: Nancy Perez suffered minor injuries to her chin and chest after falling while texting and walking on her home treadmill.

First: BWHAHAHAHHAH!!!!
Second: Idiot.

I'm walking and texting so I don't get the cell brain cancer. And so I can ignore you ogling me. No mishaps yet.

/excellent periphial vision

I sense a new FAIL pic in the works.

Can't wait till I hear someone getting hit by a car while they're texting across the crosswalk.

I prefer that winter Olympic sport where they do skiing and shooting.

So two guys walk into a bar. Which is funny because the second guy should have seen it.

/I'm here all veal. Tip the night, try the waitress.

LegacyDL: Can't wait till I hear someone getting hit by a car while they're texting across the crosswalk.

Couldn't they just yell?

amatures

There's a new long distance messaging device.

It's called a telephone.

You dial the number of the device that tells the person with that device that you wish to speak to them, and they answer.

You can speak into it and transmit complex concepts and vital data in less than a tenth of the time it takes to type stuff with your thumbs.

After a girl was killed after her car hit a slow moving combine on a country highway, the paper printed a quote from her best friend, "OMG, I like totally got a text from her, like a MINUTE before that happened."
And was still unable to make the connection ...

I can get you one cheap.

PM me.

Thousands less than you might think for this cutting edge item.

I like how they act like no one ever walked into a tree branch or a lamp post because they were paying attention to something else before texting came along.

I remember running straight into a post in elementary school during a game of tag because I wasn't paying attention to where I was going. I got to go home early, but I had a huge lump on my head. I believe my dad had a brick cell phone at the time (circa 1992).

I saw someone run headfirst into a sign while screwing around with his iPod/phone thing.

I only wish I'd had a phone that could take pictures while I text.

I walked into a parking meter when I was about 12 while staring at some seriously hot girl, across the street.

She got a kick out of it.

I got a giggle and a sore face. : )

That is some hard hitting journalism/

Spirit Hammer: After a girl was killed after her car hit a slow moving combine on a country highway, the paper printed a quote from her best friend, "OMG, I like totally got a text from her, like a MINUTE before that happened."
And was still unable to make the connection ...

omg ru srs

Driving and putting on makeup?

Is that some kinda LPGA crack?

I do this all the time, especially drunk. It funny to get home and not remember walking there...

I remember my JR high basketball coach. He used to make us walk and chew bubblegum at the same time. Then once we mastered that we would run and chew at the same time.

It would seem the body does not work like that naturally, so you have to train it. Walking and texting at the same time would be around the same idea, so it makes sense many people have a problem with it.

/did not RTFA

if you text and drive you are an asshole of the highest order. there's no excuse for it.

december: if you text and drive you are an asshole of the highest order. there's no excuse for it.

Thanks!

I text while on my way to the gym.

It's not just the inanimate objects you have to worry about.

People who cannot watch where they are going do not deserve any courtesy on the sidewalk. You cannot expect pedestrians to leap out of your way just because you are distracted by some stupid device.

Expect to be body slammed into moving traffic.

Wulfhardt: I text while on my way to the gym.

I'm going there in 26 minutes.

december: if you text and drive you are an asshole of the highest order. there's no excuse for it.

There...ftfy.

tonesskin: Wulfhardt: I text while on my way to the gym.

I'm going there in 26 minutes.

Few people recognize how texting primes the guns for a workout. The ladies love it.

Wanebo: Dumbassometer

Is that an iPhone app?

bunner: I walked into a parking meter when I was about 12 while staring at some seriously hot girl, across the street.

She got a kick out of it.

I got a giggle and a sore face. : )

I did that last thursday....you dont get that reaction in your 30's

T.M.S.: It's not just the inanimate objects you have to worry about.

People who cannot watch where they are going do not deserve any courtesy on the sidewalk. You cannot expect pedestrians to leap out of your way just because you are distracted by some stupid device.

Expect to be body slammed into moving traffic.

Ha! That is a big pet peeve of mine. People just stare right at me a keep walking into me. I think most people are so numb that the world is just a bunch of shapes and colors to them.

Saw a biatch yesterday driving her SUV, texting and smoking a cigarette at the same time.

saintschenectady: I'm walking and texting so I don't get the cell brain cancer. And so I can ignore you ogling me. No mishaps yet.

/excellent periphial vision

Recursive FAIL...

Human brain is not a multitasking device. If you want to do two things simultaneously, one of them must be performed on auto-pilot...

for good or for awesome: Ha! That is a big pet peeve of mine. People just stare right at me a keep walking into me. I think most people are so numb that the world is just a bunch of shapes and colors to them.

That, or they don't feel obliged to swan dive into traffic because you're staring at a 2" screen.

WALKING TEXTING RANGER is coming to get ya!

'Cause the eyes of a ranger are upon you,
Any wrong you do, he's gonna see,

I almost plowed a kid just a couple weeks ago. In the U-District the streets are one way streets and the students all seem to be completely unaware of their surroundings. He crossed perpendicular to me against the light, then took a quick left directly in front of me as the light turned green for my direction. He was plugged into his IPod and was texting on his cell, completely oblivious to where he was going or what he was doing. I locked up hard and hit my horn and he barely glanced up. It would have been my fault legally if I hit him because he was in a crosswalk.

Total farking moran. He has NO idea how close he came to an extravegantly messy death that day.

Its only a matter of time before a lot of people start getting killed because of their own lack of personal awareness of their enviroment vis-a-vis IPods and cellphones, which I also see being used by bicyclists several times a day. This generation doesn't even seem to be aware of what is literally two feet in front of their toes, or coming up on their right at 30-40 mph.

I'm getting older, maybe next time I won't be so quick with the brake pedal or so paranoid about retarded pedestrians and bicyclists. Maybe I'll be tired from work or distracted by other elements of traffic. Maybe, just maybe, I can avoid squooshing one of these idiots for the rest of my life. I really dont want to do that.

The mess is impossible to get out of the grill for one thing.

If you're over 25 or so, it might be hard to appreciate the popularity of exchanging word messages that you compose and read on the screen of your cell phone. But there's no doubt they have an appeal.

Ok, I'm 33 and I have unlimited text. Why do people think only teens and college students text?

Anyway, I use it when I am in sitations when I can't talk or if I need to send the same message to multiple people.

I read "wanking and texting" =(

bunner: for good or for awesome: Ha! That is a big pet peeve of mine. People just stare right at me a keep walking into me. I think most people are so numb that the world is just a bunch of shapes and colors to them.

That, or they don't feel obliged to swan dive into traffic because you're staring at a 2" screen.

Huh? I've never sent a text in my life. But yes peoples reluctance to jump into traffic for me can be off putting.
Why is everyone misunderstanding my posts lately? Am I the victim of some new devious filter? (stupid)

I prefer the makeup gun to put on my makeup.

At least that's what TFA would seem to infer...

That's what I implied when I read it...

Why is everyone misunderstanding my posts lately? Am I the victim of some new devious filter? (stupid)

Wrong again. Seventeen midget puppy rapists set fire to the pope's nose. Try reading the Bible, it can tell you a lot about furniture polish.

See? I understanded your post perfactly.

/devious filter is filtering deviously

Daddy's Big Pink Man-Squirrel: Wrong again. Seventeen midget puppy rapists set fire to the pope's nose. Try reading the Bible, it can tell you a lot about furniture polish.

See? I understanded your post perfactly.

/devious filter is filtering deviously

Weasels bite my flesh!
It all make sense now. Thanks friend.

Meh, let them continue, maybe they'll win a Darwin Award. And if there is an open manhole around, maybe they'll prove Mel Brooks was right when he explained the difference between tragedy and comedy: "Tragedy is when I get a hangnail. Comedy is when you fall into a sewer and die."

True story: While iPhone was under development I saw Steve Jobs using a proto unit while walking around the Apple campus. He was typing on it and walked right off the sidewalk into a bush.

Looks like a "Self Correcting" problem to me.
Now all we need it an "Enjoy Text Messaging While Walking Along This Canyon Wall" advertising campaign.

for good or for awesome: Ha! That is a big pet peeve of mine. People just stare right at me a keep walking into me. I think most people are so numb that the world is just a bunch of shapes and colors to them.


You need to learn this sophisticated maneuver, "Step quickly to the oncoming person's side while leaving one leg sticking out so as to enable gravity + stupidity to give a moron a wakeup call."