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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