... so it goes ...
Yet another poor soul in today for treatment as consequence of their smartphone ...
... busy checking up on his social network accounts (no names to avoid lawsuit) on his mobile tech and yet to evolve the evidently necessary third eye in the top centre of the cranium ... young master walks straight across the road junction and across the bonnet of the old gent minding his own business tootling back from the garden centre ...
... all of which raises several points ... interesting or otherwise ...
... whilst awaiting the paramedics to attend to his (it is later revealed) double compound fracture of both tib & fib and dislocation of one knee, did he take the opportunity to tweet his latest adventure ...
<<lying in road in severe agony OMG!>>
... if the poor old chap with the bootful of geraniums had been updating his MyBook page when he struck down the flower of modern youth, he'd be up before the beak in no short order to have book and then several hefty medical bills thrown at him ...
... so is the pedestrian similarly processed for 'perambulation with due care and account' ... having seen the contents of his MP3 player (got stuck on rapid scan as a result of the RTA) prosecution on grounds of contrtavention of basic taste and decency is a most definite possibility ...
... and, without wishing to channel my grandfather, when did it become necessary to be plugged into the network 24/7 ...
... surely humanity has not reached the depths of existentialist despair whereby one's very existence is confirmed by audio-visual stimulation ... if stimulation is what it pertains to ...
... it was said that mankind was but two meals from barbarism ...
... now it one minute unplugged maybe enought to render swathes of the populace bereft of meaning and validation ...
... then again ten seconds unplugged may have saved today's first case from what will be the best part of a year's recovery ...
As Mr Ant bext expressed it, though somewhat anachronistically, "Unplug the juke box! Do us all a favour"
(and, No, the irony of the means of this medium does not escape me)
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