Who: Luke Castellan and Stuart What: Random match up run in Where: In town When: Tuesday Warnings: Not likely Status: Closed, Match Up
K-Mart had trained Stuart not to lose himself in his phone (or other electronics) as often as he used to. He actually looked up from the screen once in a while. Sometimes he even put the device away, and interacted with people. And sometimes, particularly when he was in town alone, he reverted back to old habits and shut out the rest of the world with his focus solely on the phone in his hand.
That was the case when he left work in the early evening. He had his email open, reading a message from K-Mart, which had him smiling like an idiot, and absolutely unaware of the world around him. he knew where he was, on the sidewalk, walking among other people and such. But he had zero functional awareness of the people around him.
Which, of course, eventually led him to collide with another person. His phone dropped to the ground, and while his instinct was to retrieve it, he looked up at the young man he'd plowed into. "Sorry." What else could he say?