I am writing to bring attention to an issue that affects many of all: Texting While Walking (TWW).
This morning, I had a startling encounter that highlighted the dangers of TWW.
While driving here in town, I nearly hit a pedestrian who stepped into the road without checking for oncoming traffic. The alarming part? They were completely absorbed in their phone and didn’t notice a thing until I honked him for a few seconds.
Smartphones have become an integral part of our lives (probably too integral), but we must acknowledge the risks of distraction. TWW poses a significant threat to personal safety and the well-being of those around us.
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what does texting have to do with smart phone?
TW for short (text-walking)
what does this have to do with smartphones?? texting is even on flip phones!! in fact on smartphones you could text quicker and look around before getting hit as opposed to flip phones just to type in “ye” or “alright” takes up so much time. but dont get me wrong, flip phones are the way to go, i use one myself!!
btw, its possible he saw you coming and slowly started walking into the road as hes looking at his phone assuming you would pass by already but you decided to slow down and honk not realizing that the road was clear to cross right behind you.
od yesh lomar, that he was a groiseh illoy, and was thinking up pshat in reb boruch ber and he started walking into the street as he was finally getting a real klur-keit in the sugya, he was mamish in a different world, and he suddenly realized hes on the way to seder so he pulls out his phone to check what time it is but he never switched the clock an hour cuz of his aingizaptkeit of illoy-ness, so he carefully clicks on his fancy calculator to cheshbon that hour to the time but gets mamish geshtert by the raash gadol of this automobile driver who is obviously mufga from this side of lakewood which he calls the REAL lakewood (cuz thats what lakewood used to be…) because he doesnt realize the streets here are more used by pedestrians crossing le’idach gisah than by cars driving by. usually cars in the yeshiva neighborhood are just being parked or stopping so one driver can hop out as the other quickly runs around as quick as possible to take over the driver seat, as leaving the seat unattended too long can cause it to cool off to too normal of a temperature… or they try smoothly sliding over to the other side without getting tangled in the wires. this method prevents the switcher from being seen by other people for if they were spotted their identity might be known and its best to remain anonymous when doing fishy activity as such. we should taka be zoche to taka bring the geula sheleima taka bekoroiv and taka mamish!!!
p.s. i hope i get the math equation right…
Well, the other option would be to carry walkie talkies….but we all know how that could end up if we’re not so lucky.