In Theaetetus (174A) Socrates tells the story of “the Thracian maidservant who exercised her wit at the expense of Thales, when he was looking up to study the stars and tumbled down a well. She scoffed at him for being so eager to know what was happening in the sky that he could not see what lay at his feet. Anyone who gives his life to philosophy is open to such mockery.” (F.M. Cornford translation)
These days, it is texters not philosophers who are at risk, and the hazard is an indoor fountain (WMARabc2news, Baltimore, with a hat tip to Linda Phillips Ashour):