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Textwalkers: Do They Need A Heads-Up?
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· Texting while reading Braille.
· Texting while performing a bris.
· Texting while cliff-climbing.
· Texting while slipping the ring on a bride's finger.
· Walking while chewing gum.
But let us put aside for a moment the inconvenient facts about this blight and curse that has conveniently surfaced in the dog days of summer. Okay, so there are no data to provide evidence of this textwalking epidemic. Okay, so one oft-cited anecdote turns out to be a publicity stunt -- the ITN video from east London showing lampposts supposedly being padded to protect them from bumbling texters. Okay, so death by textwalking is not new. In 2006, Miss Deaf Texas, while walking near the tracks in Austin texting family and friends, was hit from the rear by a Union Pacific train.
Let us instead promptly ankle right over to Connecticut and K, arguably the epicenter of the District's Type A's. Let us pigeonhole passersby in a decidedly unscientific sample of that portion of the human race who seem prone to texting while walking. These defiers of death, one recent lunchtime, displayed a marked demographic skew -- early 20s to late 30s, typically, and female.
"I think of something to say and I'm too busy to stop," says Kate Beer, 23, of Springfield. "I need to get back quickly. I know, it's not the smartest."
