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Old 01-14-2011, 08:17 PM
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The weekend of the Sumter Landing Craft Show I saw a Villages-age woman texting while walking through an alley to the parking lot and she walked into the underside of one of the outside staircases and I heard her head go CLUNK!!
She was in some pain and feeling for blood, but I think she probably just got a good sized knot on her head.

So when I saw this YouTube video I had to post it, as it's too funny not to share. The dangers of modern technology blocking out everything else.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg11glsBW4Y&feature=player_embedded[/ame]
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The weekend of the Sumter Landing Craft Show I saw a Villages-age woman texting while walking through an alley to the parking lot and she walked into the underside of one of the outside staircases and I heard her head go CLUNK!!
She was in some pain and feeling for blood, but I think she probably just got a good sized knot on her head.

So when I saw this YouTube video I had to post it, as it's too funny not to share. The dangers of modern technology blocking out everything else.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg11g...layer_embedded
That's a fountain at Berkshire Mall in Wyomissing, PA.
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I thought it looked familiar. Shopped there for years and still do when visiting family.
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Very Funny.

I hope she doesn't text while she drives. I guess not for a while as I'm sure her cell phone is not working too well!!!!!!
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How old is "a village-age" woman?
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Yes, what age exactly is a "village-age woman"?
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How old is "a village-age" woman?
Between 55 and 135?
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Yes, what age exactly is a "village-age woman"?
I only mean that she looked like she could live here. She was not a texting teenager. It's sounded nicer than "senior citizen" or some other such description.

Women are so touchy
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I only mean that she looked like she could live here. She was not a texting teenager. It's sounded nicer than "senior citizen" or some other such description.

Women are so touchy
Might as well step in it deeper, huh.
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Might as well step in it deeper, huh.
Exactly why I said that P. I'm incorrigible.
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I thought it looked familiar. Shopped there for years and still do when visiting family.
Used to live in Wyomissing - in fact very close to the Bershire Mall, a friend from there recently sent me the link to this same video.
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/01/20...rd/?test=faces

Something smells a little in this story.
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No bodily harm intended...just a good old fashioned embarassing moment to jar them out of their out of touch stupidity....for a few seconds anyway.
Cell phones and texting are a disease that affects the mental ability of the owner of the cell. They lose track of where they are...what they are doing...and whether it is bothersome to others or not. Totally inconsiderate...and unnecessary.
Especially those behind the wheel.

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