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So I’m a walker, 5+/- miles per day around the neighborhood. From time to time I pass by new people that show up & get into it for a while, typically they fade away after a couple weeks or so. The latest contestant is a woman, I’d guestimate mid-late 30s, sizeable, walks with a purpose, but here’s the rub, she holds her phone down & to the left at about waist level and stares at it, appears as though she’s looking at the ground, and when I say stares at her phone I mean she will not break eye contact with it OR her stride. I’ve watched her do multiple laps without ever looking up; she could literally be walking towards a Bengal tiger licking its chops & she wouldn’t notice it until she bumped into its teeth. I live on a ½ mile circle with very little traffic so it’s a great loop to do laps on uninterrupted which is why I suspect she comes here to walk. We walk the circle in opposite directions so when I see her coming I’ll jump to the other side of the street to avoid being plowed over (she probably has 50lbs on me), I’ve almost suffered that fate a few times. I just want to say get your head out of your ass lady, I suspect one day that will happen if she sticks with it.

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So I’m a walker, 5+/- miles per day around the neighborhood. From time to time I pass by new people that show up & get into it for a while, typically they fade away after a couple weeks or so. The latest contestant is a woman, I’d guestimate mid-late 30s, sizeable, walks with a purpose, but here’s the rub, she holds her phone down & to the left at about waist level and stares at it, appears as though she’s looking at the ground, and when I say stares at her phone I mean she will not break eye contact with it OR her stride. I’ve watched her do multiple laps without ever looking up; she could literally be walking towards a Bengal tiger licking its chops & she wouldn’t notice it until she bumped into its teeth. I live on a ½ mile circle with very little traffic so it’s a great loop to do laps on uninterrupted which is why I suspect she comes here to walk. We walk the circle in opposite directions so when I see her coming I’ll jump to the other side of the street to avoid being plowed over (she probably has 50lbs on me), I’ve almost suffered that fate a few times. I just want to say get your head out of your ass lady, I suspect one day that will happen if she sticks with it.

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Probably looking up baking recipes
 
I walk a lot as well, especially at work, including at night (fenced in perimeter track). Several times I have been around the back side of the mile long track at night looking at my phone. One time I just barely caught sight of something out of the corner of my eye and looked up at the track. It was a skunk with it's ass in the air pointed right at me. I was about 5' from it. Another step and it likely would have ruined my night. We named him PePe. Almost stepped on a yuge snapping turtle the same way.

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The other day on my run I heard something behind me and spun around to see a young coyote dart across where I had just run. I paced it out to 18 yards behind me. The yotes are thick this year … hopefully I get the chance to thin them out!
 
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Probably looking up baking recipes

Could be. She does several things I've noticed, sometimes I can hear that it's a video of some kind she's watching, other times she's talking to someone on Face Time, still others it's silent so perhaps she's reading a book, looking for recipes or filling her Amazon cart, who the fuck knows, all I do know is that no amount of noise I make as we close in on each other will cause her to divert her eyes from that rancid thing, she is truly in a trance unlike anything I've ever seen, thus the bolting to the opposite side of the street for survival :ROFLMAO:
 
So I’m a walker, 5+/- miles per day around the neighborhood. From time to time I pass by new people that show up & get into it for a while, typically they fade away after a couple weeks or so. The latest contestant is a woman, I’d guestimate mid-late 30s, sizeable, walks with a purpose, but here’s the rub, she holds her phone down & to the left at about waist level and stares at it, appears as though she’s looking at the ground, and when I say stares at her phone I mean she will not break eye contact with it OR her stride. I’ve watched her do multiple laps without ever looking up; she could literally be walking towards a Bengal tiger licking its chops & she wouldn’t notice it until she bumped into its teeth. I live on a ½ mile circle with very little traffic so it’s a great loop to do laps on uninterrupted which is why I suspect she comes here to walk. We walk the circle in opposite directions so when I see her coming I’ll jump to the other side of the street to avoid being plowed over (she probably has 50lbs on me), I’ve almost suffered that fate a few times. I just want to say get your head out of your ass lady, I suspect one day that will happen if she sticks with it.

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I had two late teens/early twenties females walk out in front of me on the road yesterday, line astern, both head down buried in their smartphones. The first one made it to the other side without clocking me, the second looked up at the last second.
 
So I’m a walker, 5+/- miles per day around the neighborhood. From time to time I pass by new people that show up & get into it for a while, typically they fade away after a couple weeks or so. The latest contestant is a woman, I’d guestimate mid-late 30s, sizeable, walks with a purpose, but here’s the rub, she holds her phone down & to the left at about waist level and stares at it, appears as though she’s looking at the ground, and when I say stares at her phone I mean she will not break eye contact with it OR her stride. I’ve watched her do multiple laps without ever looking up; she could literally be walking towards a Bengal tiger licking its chops & she wouldn’t notice it until she bumped into its teeth. I live on a ½ mile circle with very little traffic so it’s a great loop to do laps on uninterrupted which is why I suspect she comes here to walk. We walk the circle in opposite directions so when I see her coming I’ll jump to the other side of the street to avoid being plowed over (she probably has 50lbs on me), I’ve almost suffered that fate a few times. I just want to say get your head out of your ass lady, I suspect one day that will happen if she sticks with it.

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Its fucking sad - another PHOOOOOONNE zombie.

I've had to blow my horn at these people walking down the middle of a parking lot aisle. Completely clueless.
 
People can't say that they didn't know my car was there, a Mercedes diesel clack, clack, clacking away...

Seems most folks feel they have the right of way while walking.
My motorcycle safety class told us you do have the right of way……once. Gotta watch out and be ready to give way!
 
Seems most folks feel they have the right of way while walking.
My motorcycle safety class told us you do have the right of way……once. Gotta watch out and be ready to give way!

In the marine field, sailing vessels have the right of way over motorized...

BUT - there's that whole "Law of gross tonnage"... (!!)
 
In the marine field, sailing vessels have the right of way over motorized...

BUT - there's that whole "Law of gross tonnage"... (!!)

Good point, and that reminds me of the nautical guidance that a VNUC has supreme right of way. That’s a “vessel not under command” … like a floating log, or a zombie with their nose in their phone! Unfortunately it’s of no use for the piloted vessel to expect any recognition or evasive maneuvers from a VNUC.
 
Good point, and that reminds me of the nautical guidance that a VNUC has supreme right of way. That’s a “vessel not under command” … like a floating log, or a zombie with their nose in their phone! Unfortunately it’s of no use for the piloted vessel to expect any recognition or evasive maneuvers from a VNUC.

Or the container ship barreling along at 30 kts with nobody on the bridge. You can scream on 16 all you like, but you better get the hell outta the way!
 
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Today was concrete pour day. Footings, slab, and a short sidewalk.

Supposed to be 80 degrees today. It’s 90 and humid as hell.

Truck takes 25 minutes to get here….damn stuff was stiff!

Do you know the difference between a concrete guy and a farmer?

The concrete guy doesn't think he can farm!
 
Today was concrete pour day. Footings, slab, and a short sidewalk.

Supposed to be 80 degrees today. It’s 90 and humid as hell.

Truck takes 25 minutes to get here….damn stuff was stiff!

Do you know the difference between a concrete guy and a farmer?

The concrete guy doesn't think he can farm!

What did they tell you the slump should be? I used to be a mixer driver. I'm not sure what it should be with it so humid. But I'd guess a 4 or 6 slump for what you're doing?
 
What did they tell you the slump should be? I used to be a mixer driver. I'm not sure what it should be with it so humid. But I'd guess a 4 or 6 slump for what you're doing?

It was a 6 slump when delivered and I had them add 1 gal / yard before we poured the slab (12X12' for the mud room/
entry) . Still pretty stiff.
Then I had them add another 1/2 gallon / yard then dropped poured the footing.
Had a sidewalk form set up and i asked for more water and remix, but there was only 1/2 yard left so they dropped it. My son isn't as experienced and he worked on that, it was on the south side of the building in the blazing son. That little POS 4X9' sidewalk kicked our ass. We did put up an EZ up canopy which helped a lot.

And our power trowel wouldn't run and we hand troweled the 12X12.
 
It was a 6 slump when delivered and I had them add 1 gal / yard before we poured the slab (12X12' for the mud room/
entry) . Still pretty stiff.
Then I had them add another 1/2 gallon / yard then dropped poured the footing.
Had a sidewalk form set up and i asked for more water and remix, but there was only 1/2 yard left so they dropped it. My son isn't as experienced and he worked on that, it was on the south side of the building in the blazing son. That little POS 4X9' sidewalk kicked our ass. We did put up an EZ up canopy which helped a lot.

And our power trowel wouldn't run and we hand troweled the 12X12.

Sounds like my flatwork experience. I wish I could give you and the boy a Beer , you guys will sleep good tonight !