Almost daily occurance now
I read and walk. It's an aquired skill the involves being aware of your periphial whilst reading a book adn walking along. I don;t have problems with it: I notice discolouration on the floor I look up and avoid the dogshit. I notice movement, I look up and avoid other people. I see dark, I look up and cross the road. Pretty easy.

My way to and from work and lunch means I take this 10 min walk 4 times a day. My journey's away from work are always fine but my journeys back almost always include this firggin end bit of tree branch that is at just above eye level for me. It;s position and size means that I don't notice it until I'm about to collide with it and sometimes not even then.

The end result is an almost twice daily occurance of me walking along and reading and then suddenly violently twisting the top half of my body and then straightening again. I do think it must look quite strange to people watching me walk as they too probably can't see the branch.

This weird display of acrobatics does mean that I do soemtimes miss the branch. I keep meaning to break the branch next time I walk past it but when I reach it I'm too engrossed in my book...
( Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Thu 21 Jan 2010, 16:15, Reply)