That’s okay Colin, I get the misconstrued text thing with the missus every 1 in 3 so no worries, I wasn’t having a go I just know that guide dogs rely heavily on hearing and I can’t imagine what it must be like for a blind person trying to cross a road full of noisy cars never mind a load of stealth runners.
As for paying more attention we’re all guilty of missing things happening around us, it doesn’t take much to shift your attention away for just a second with all the plebs on the roads these days and as for the idiots that are glued to their phone while just walking into the road without ever looking away from the screen I can only think it’s a way of thinning the herd with natural selection and removing certain genetic deficiencies from the gene-pool . ???