This post doesn't have anything to do with trials but it's something that has been bugging me for quite a while now.

As a bike messenger (have been doing this for 8 years now) I come around a lot and see many pedestrians with smart phones at the ready. As soon as they hear the whistle sound of WhatsApp and the like they draw their phone faster than Billy the Kid and begin swiping away, not paying any attention to their surroundings. I cannot count how many times I've almost hit a pedestrian crossing the street mesmerized by his new Facebook entries and whatnot. The worst thing about it is that mothers push their baby strollers into the traffic without looking. Why the fu** do they do that?

The other day I went to a playground with my daughter and saw a mother with, as you might have guessed already, her smart phone in her hand. Her son was calling out to her: "Mommy, look what I can do!" Unfortunately, mommy was so drawn into the internet that she never even lifted her head and just said, "thats great" in a monotone voice as she kept swiping away... 

Am I that old that the immanent generation conflict has me in its hands already? I can't stand this development. Needless to say that I don't own a smart phone.