I pick up an occasional newspaper that someone has left on the counter at the Waffle House in order to do the xword. I haven’t been to a movie in some years since the third one in a row where after 5 or 10 minutes I was saying,” and I spent $xx and am wasting an hour and a half to see this?” The last one was the Alice in Wonderland thing that looked like it would be really interesting with the animation/live mix. 5 minutes in I knew it was a standard Disney flick and knew how it would progress and how it would end.
It is a standard procedure in boxing to do something to distract the attention of the opponent in order to drop the ceiling in on him with something he can’t see because his attention is misdirected by the first move(s).
Years ago I started seeing people out in public with their earphones on.
I said to myself, “Why don’t they put on a blindfold too to finish job?”
They were CUTTING THEMSELVES OFF from observation of their environment.
What if a car honked at them.
What if a hoodlum came up behind them?
Today, with the texting on a cellphones, that has been accomplished in full.