Beware The Pokemon Players

“What do you do, before you cross the street, you stop, you look, you listen.

“What do you do, before you move your feet, you stop, you look, you listen.

“You look to the right and the left and the right, and when you’re sure, you’re really sure there’s not a car in sight -“

Wait, stop the bus! This song from my childhood needs a re-write.

Who’s sick of the word Pokemon? I am. It’s so July 2016 but the fact is there are still Pokemon players out there in force. This was brought to my attention when we decided to have a quiet drink recently at the Town Basin. This usually isn’t a good idea with kids but they are now of the age where you can buy some time with a glass of fizz before they run off and entertain themselves.

Which is duly what happened until they ran off and one promptly crashed into a Pokemon player.

I rounded them back up. “Okay guys. Many of the young adults around here won’t be looking where they are going so you are going to have to watch out for them,” I explained, reminiscent of the pep talk I gave them at the Fritter Festival in March to beware the drunks.

But kids being kids, high on raspberry fizz and excited to be outside on a rare wintery, sunny day, of course they didn’t look where they were going and so a few more crashes ensued. And it’s not just kids these people glued to their devices are having near-misses with.

With the way things are heading, perhaps the school principal down south who absurdly installed signage for motorists to beware the teenagers crossing on their phones, was onto something after-all.

“… and when you’re sure, you’re really sure there’s not a (Pokemon player) in sight, then you smartly, march across the (park), marching, marching all the way.”

NB: According to my school-teacher mother, I have remembered the song wrong anyway.