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Multitasking
Staircase with a texting lane is a design project from Utah Valley University
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ha! I heard this on NPR this morning. I don’t text and walk as I’m a klutz and I’ve fall flat on my face!
I can, however, walk and chew gum. 🙂
I’m always surprised by people who walk their dogs and text. They’re really missing out.
I can hardly walk and TALK on a cell phone – the noise outside (which is where I normally walk) is too distracting. Despite being a Gemini, I don’t multi-task very well.
To a degree, I enjoy multi-tasking, but not if it takes me so out of the moment that I’m missing it.
How weird…I JUST was thinking this morning that this is one of my main pet peeves!!
I live in a pretty urban, congested area, with a ton of pedestrians…which I love. However, its getting to the point that I am legit worried that I’m going to hit someone crossing the street b/c people are looking down at the phone and haphazardly walking into an intersection. I really try to be as courteous as possible to pedestrians, as I’m one myself a lot of times, but how many times do I have to slam on my brakes b/c someone did not even look up to see oncoming traffic. I really worry about this, and its just going to get worst before better I’m afraid.
I wonder sometimes if this is a hopeless battle. But that’s why I was encouraged to see this design project come out of a University.