I cannot understand commuters who listen to their personal stereos (I will not call them iPods – see footnote 1) and read novels at the same time. If you are listening to anything worth listening to you would not need to bury your head in a novel, unless the novel itself was not worth reading, in which case you shouldn’t be reading it. Either way, you are not going to get the most out of either the book or the music.
These strange commuters then continue to walk down the streets of London not being able to hear the cyclists shout at them for stepping in their path, not being able to see the ground/pot-holes in front of them due to the aforementioned novel blocking their sight. Perhaps they will not see or hear the delivery truck that is potentially on a collision course with their sense-deprived being?
Footnotes:
1 There are many brands of personal stereo equipment other than Apple and their iPods. I personally use a Sony MP3 player (it is ok to call one an MP3 player, if they play MP3s) – my choice is purely based on a company with a history of making high quality audio devices. But do not under any circumstances call an MP3 player an iPod unless you are being specific! This particular footnote-sized rant probably falls on deaf ears as the offenders of this atrocity are no doubts the offenders of the initial rant…
