Yeah you’re right that people’s situational awareness needs improvement. Looking down at phones is pretty annoying to me too. I guess I was a little personally miffed because I go running in public parks or tracks about every other day and almost always listen to ear buds, but I maintain awareness. One night I was running a 10k around the track of my high school, with my car in the stadium’s parking lot. I saw a group of four punks stroll through the parking lot. While I was at the far end of the track, one of them looked in my windows and then tried the door handle. Without pausing my run tracker ap or music, I changed to an intercept course and sprinted off the track right at them and closed the 200 meter distance in short time. As I got closer I shouted something about messing with my car and they just about shit themselves as they ran away to the 55 mph highway. They made a car with right of way slam on the brakes to avoid hitting them as they desperately crossed. I almost felt bad about that, but it was pretty pathetic for four of them to run away from me after I sprinted 200 m after I was already about five miles deep into my 6.22 mile run.
A little but even more annoying than parking lot punks are the commie stalkers who come onto the track supposedly to mall-walk but really just to mess with you. AC’s advice is to play dumb so the ear buds fit the bill
Yeah you’re right that people’s situational awareness needs improvement. Looking down at phones is pretty annoying to me too. I guess I was a little personally miffed because I go running in public parks or tracks about every other day and almost always listen to ear buds, but I maintain awareness. One night I was running a 10k around the track of my high school, with my car in the stadium’s parking lot. I saw a group of four punks stroll through the parking lot. While I was at the far end of the track, one of them looked in my windows and then tried the door handle. Without pausing my run tracker ap or music, I changed to an intercept course and sprinted off the track right at them and closed the 200 meter distance in short time. As I got closer I shouted something about messing with my car and they just about shit themselves as they ran away to the 55 mph highway. They made a car with right of way slam on the brakes to avoid hitting them as they desperately crossed. I almost felt bad about that, but it was pretty pathetic for four of them to run away from me after I sprinted 200 m after I was already about five miles deep into my 6.22 mile run.
That was intense!
A little but even more annoying than parking lot punks are the commie stalkers who come onto the track supposedly to mall-walk but really just to mess with you. AC’s advice is to play dumb so the ear buds fit the bill