I wandered across to the shopping centre yesterday to stock up on lunch supplies for the week and almost got run down by a woman who was talking on a mobile phone.
I could hardly believe it. She wasn’t paying any attention to where she was going. She was so absorbed in her conversation that she didn’t even notice me.
Her front wheels were only about a metre away from me when I dashed out of the way. If I hadn’t been payin attention she would have run right into me. I wonder how it would have been if I were an older person who couldn’t move so quickly to avoid the collision.
I think that supermarkets should be forced to put up big signs warning shoppers that they shouldn’t be talking on a mobile phone while operating shopping trolleys. (That’s shopping carts for US readers.)
Posted by Rodney Olsen
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You might not believe how often I see this – just people are in cars while not paying attention to traffic. No matter even if they are just about entering a motorway (just going on it with the end of the acceleration line ending, forcing trucks to break hard!) or try to stop in town…
Punishment should be way harder on this, I think.
And in a supermarket? You can stop wherever you like, I don´t understand this…
Good thing you´re young enough to jump out of the way 😉
You had me there! I was picturing your wheel just inching safely past her bumper, or you in a crosswalk just barely escaping with your life! Trolley! hahaha Very good!
I can never quite figure out why – while walking through a supermarket – my other half always ends up 20 feet away from me, with a wall of trolleys between us.
It can’t possibly be because 90% of the people who enter supermarkets are thoughtless, ignorant, and self absorbed … can it?
It drives me crazy when that kind of thing happens. There are some places in the U.S. that have outlawed phones while driving. Maybe we should start including “while driving anything…”
Oh, and by the way, if you live in the southern portion of the United States, they call them “buggies.” I personally don’t call them buggies, but everyone else down here does.
It’s just as bad on the highway.
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Ruth
I heard you telling this over the radio and I told hubby the evening, we had a good laugh!
yes yes YES!
even without a trolley… I was standing in line at Zarraffa’s the other day – one of those little coffee shops set in the middle of the shopping centres walkways…
the line was long and I was on the end, just on the edge of the main walkway. A 15 or 16 year old girl walked right into my back. obviously not watching where she was going and talking 100ks and hour on the phone.
she just gave me a look like “what are you doing in my way” and rushed off… without stopping talking to her friend.