I live near a small town with a state university. See young women jogging/running—all with headphones/earpods. How can they have any situational awareness?
they don't...just like the young guy with the $5000 rolex walking in the city with his head in his cell phone when two animals come up and simply take his rolex....
don't feel sorry for him one bit.
“How can they have any situational awareness?”
Right. My daughter travels a lot for business, which basically I hate and worry about her all the time. I told her, I hope you are not listening to music when you are walking by yourself in strange places. She assured me she was not. She said: I wear the headphones to discourage people from talking to me, but I’m not actually listening to anything.