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Gripe of the day:
People using their phones while driving. Especially when they have their kids in the car. Like are you kidding me?
Positive of the day:
Looks like it’ll be a beautiful day! Hoping to get the paddleboard out again (although my knee is still very bruised) or at the very least have a swim!
My workplace is full of 18-21yo university students. I have given up trying to swerve and dodge out of their way because they're walking down corridors with their heads buried in their phones and weaving all over the place more than a Ranger driver on the freeway.
Now I just walk a straight path (off to one side, not in the middle of the walkway) and just let them crash into me. They wake up startled from their trances and frantically apologise for not watching where they're going... and then proceed to re-bury their heads in their screens and carry on as they were :|
It's already happened twice today.
I do this too. If you're walking in a crowd and not willing to look up from your phone, then I'm not going to try and avoid you.