If you want a laugh, watch about 20 seconds of this video.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WmhvdtX72eQ

The only thing that would have made it better would be for the bear to have chased and caught him…truly teaching the miserable distracted walker a lesson about paying attention.

I’m becoming a proponent of cutting down on all the multi-tasking. Most of us would benefit from doing one thing at a time and doing it well. Distracted driving simply kills and maims too many people, for example, to justify its continuance. I’ve vowed to severely limit my distracted driving and hope you’ll do the same. I don’t have that many readers that I can afford to lose them willy-nilly in car accidents.

We had surveyors on a site in State College, PA a few weeks ago and they kicked out a black bear. That was also in the middle of a town, with residential areas all around.  I guess the moral of the story is that the unexpected happens often, so pay attention.