Reading whilst walking

[the stain]

Does anybody else do this? It seems to me to be the only way to nullify the tedium of the same half-hour walk to work every day.

 

People used to look at me strangely but I've noticed that a couple of people who I regularly pass going the opposite way now read as they go along too. I'm thinking of inviting them to join a book club.

 

n.b. I've never yet trodden in any poop.

[Rory]

:)

[TopGun]

I prefer to read a book whilst driving. It's therapeutic on busy motorways.

[Scudamore]

I have read whilst walking...not a book though...

[St Landrew]

I see no problem with it, as long as people notice they're about to bump into people coming the other way. A head down attitude doesn't give anyone the right to go barging through unannounced.

 

Just a few months back I was driving on the main road through the University campus. I'd just got near the Nuffield Theatre when this student just walked out into the road, head down and texting away. I had to brake fairly hard and instantly decided I would get the car quite close when it eventually stopped. This made her pop her head up. I wound down the window and said, am I in charge of your life or you..?

[the stain]

 

Peripheral vision is enough to warn you that someone's about. And I still look both ways before crossing the road (I used to be a member of the Tufty Club...)

[the stain]

And I like it when pretty ladies try to check out what I'm reading. It makes me feel like they desire me.

[dubai_phil]

A small suggestion....

 

iPod & talking books?

[Guest Dark Sotonic Mills]

And I like it when pretty ladies try to check out what I'm reading. It makes me feel like they desire me.

 

Until they see that you're reading "Big Jugs Monthly"...

[the stain]

A small suggestion....

 

iPod & talking books?

 

Pah! iPods cost money I haven't got. And talking books are either abridged or camped up by hammy actors. Or both.

[the stain]

Until they see that you're reading "Big Jugs Monthly"...

 

It's usually just pictures of myself naked, tbf.

[Ash]

It's usually just pictures of myself naked, tbf.

I'd buy that for a dollar.

Alas, I cannot do both things as I worry too much about where I am going and I cannot concentrate on two things at once:( Maybe you could bring out a book with some advise on how it is done? You could include some pictures of yourself.

[bridge too far]

Off at a slight tangent - I've found it's very difficult to text whilst walking down steps.

 

 

HTH

[Penfold]

Off at a slight tangent - I've found it's very difficult to text whilst walking down steps.

 

 

HTH

 

try walking backwards

[the stain]

Off at a slight tangent - I've found it's very difficult to text whilst walking down steps.

 

 

HTH

 

For some reason reading/texting is much easier walking up steps than down.

[Master Bates]

For some reason reading/texting is much easier walking up steps than down.

 

Does one read when it's raining and if so does your book have a special umbrella?

[the stain]

Does one read when it's raining and if so does your book have a special umbrella?

 

A sheath, made from a sheep's stomach.

[Saint Martini]

My little brother tried to read and bike once when he was about 8. It did work and he ended up in the hospital for some stitches.

[bridge too far]

try walking backwards

 

Not really advisable when exiting Old Trafford IMO

[Master Bates]

My brother died reading, got hit by a bus.

[Saint_clark]

My brother died reading, got hit by a bus.

 

Was he trying to read the number on the front?

[saint boggy]

Off at a slight tangent - I've found it's very difficult to text whilst walking down steps.

 

 

HTH

i can write a perfectly legible text without even looking at my phone...

this either makes me very cool or very sad, i'm not quite sure which

[mynameisthehulk]

i can write a perfectly legible text without even looking at my phone...

this either makes me very cool or very sad, i'm not quite sure which

 

I am.

 

HTH

[Atticus Finch of Maycomb]

Pah! iPods cost money I haven't got. And talking books are either abridged or camped up by hammy actors. Or both.

 

all lies. talking books are rarely abridged, you can download them from sites (legally, too) and some of them are read with brilliant voices. And you dont need an ipod, you can listen on your phone.

 

i also listen out loud at night because i dont have a bedside lamp. great stuff, i love audiobooks.

[Badger]

A few years ago driving into Bristol in the morning I used to see some bloke walking along holding a book in front of his nose everytime...

 

With all due respect to The Stain,this looked a knobhead thing to do,and the chap concerned must have been an utter spastic.

[Mattio]

Its a london thing, everyone does it there and they all seem to have radar too...

[Stanley Saint]

I'm a walking reader too. I was so gripped by a chapter last night that I spent 5 minutes under a lamp-post and my chips went cold.

[Crouchie's Lawyer]

I am unable to read, I am illiterate

[Rattlehead]

True story.