What I notice #1
Skating through the heart of Adelaide city on a longboard around lunch time – pedestrian traffic peak-hour – and one begins to notice things:
- People meander, rather than walk straight. This is especially so when they check bags, glance sideways, catch eyes with other obstacles etc.
- Many people have little awareness of what is happening with the world around them. They look but they don’t see. They step to the left, or to the right, or stop with little consideration for the flow of the footpath.
- A great number of people watch their feet, look up, check to the side. Many walk on automatic and traverse without acknowledging the distance they cover, without looking forward.
- Few people realise their legs move to the side, as well as to the front and back. They’re disconnected from their bodies and are inconvenienced when forced to catch their step, avoid fast moving obstacles or deviate from a path they’ve chosen, even when to save their life.
- Larger people and older people have a greater tendency to take on the characteristics described above.
No, I didn’t hit anyone today.
Today.
Also, I saw a person step blindly onto Frome Road while walking down Rundle Street towards the East End without bothering to check whether the cars had stopped when the light turned red and their walk light turned green. Only millimetres separated them from being cleaned up by a cyclist owning the road and then being bounced off a faster moving sports car.
Digg, Face, Hit, Spread me!
