Reading while walking

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Each time I've tried to search this one out, it's failed. So. I see people doing this all the time, and I CAN'T! What is the secret?

Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 15 September 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

Now the weather has cooled down, I'm going to walk to and from work - 45 minutes of reading time! IF I could DO this.

Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 15 September 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

My headphones broke, and so I started doing this again, instead of listening to the iPod. The secret is to have done it since you were in short pants, I suppose?

Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 15 September 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

That's probably it, lack of early training. Thankfully there is still the iPod.

Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 15 September 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

I've started doing this again. But only on the way from the subway back home in the evening. I suppose when it gets darker earlier, I'll have to get a headlight or at least a reflector.

k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 15 September 2005 23:39 (twenty years ago)

I can't even read at the gym on the bike or whatever - it's like motion sickness, getting all dizzy and wanting to fall right over. And constantly losing my place.

Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 15 September 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

I can read at the gym but,when I was even more pretentious then I am now, I would try to read in foreign languages at the gym and that would mess me up, almost the way Jaq is describing. And when I haven't gone for a while (like now) I can't read for the first few times I go back.

k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 15 September 2005 23:47 (twenty years ago)

Reading as you walk gives you strabismus and hairy palms.

Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 15 September 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

Strabismus? Aimless, are you really Anthony Burgess, who only faked his death?

k/l (Ken L), Friday, 16 September 2005 00:00 (twenty years ago)

People can read to you via the iPod, though! Although I usually have people lecturing to me on it.

Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 16 September 2005 02:29 (twenty years ago)

I offered my eye teeth to be a younger, handsomer version of Anthony Burgess, but there were no takers. Now I have several unsightly gaps in my smile and a limited talent for spitting in multiple directions simultaneously.

Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 16 September 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)

I used to read while I walked, constantly (I once read Proust while hiking along an overgrown forest trail). Then my home town installed crotch high parking meters. Things were never quite the same after that.

RJM (robmy), Friday, 16 September 2005 03:04 (twenty years ago)

Is this your first post to ILX?

Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 16 September 2005 03:40 (twenty years ago)

Probably and now he's fuxored his login and will be appearing under the cat's name. Oh, actually there he is in the Henry James thread. Heh - I told him to grovel to the moderators.

Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 16 September 2005 11:45 (twenty years ago)

Jaq, I think you need peripheral vision! I do this as long as my path isn't too crowded -- other people are harder to anticipate than, say, street signs.

Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 16 September 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

Actually I had posted on ILM ages ago, but I lost my log-in name and password so now I'm screwed. I'll have thirty different ones by the time I'm finished.

moriarty (moriarty), Friday, 23 September 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

Collect them all!

Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 23 September 2005 03:02 (twenty years ago)

I don't know if there's ever been a thread for reading while riding so I'll drop this here: One summer at Lake St Clair there was a guy who would ride home on his pushbike (10kms) no hands and reading! It was a very impressive sight.

sandy mc (sandy mc), Friday, 23 September 2005 10:15 (twenty years ago)

Weird, I used to do this all the time but not any more. Maybe because I don't walk to/from work any more so the obvious window isn't there. I have only just stopped getting sick on buses, otherwise I would never get any reading done during the day at all...

Archel (Archel), Friday, 23 September 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)


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