Also in [the motorists’] way, as well as everyone else’s, are the mobile phone zombies: you, yes, YOU, with the supreme right to have your nose buried in your electronic pacifier while sauntering along the most crowded streets and walkways in the world with infuriating apathy and total disregard for the natural flow of human traffic.

The cocooned self-indulgence of these sidewalk narcissists and human roadblocks everywhere we go is as exhausting in its nonchalance as it is frustrating in its main-character syndrome.

They expect the entire sea of humanity to conveniently part and warp around their immovable bodies like background noise to be ignored.