See if you're thinking about ironing your skirt whilst you're filling a water bottle you're much less likely notice if something you really don't want be drinking drops out of the spout, spiders crawl up those things on hot days you know.

Or just generally speaking, being distracted with daydreams whilst you're performing activities are an excellent way become a statistic. I've always thought on my feet quite well, been mindful of activities and it's helped reduce injury when accidents do happen, eg. I got run over at work by a delivery driver speeding into the delivery bay just as I was crossing it from the loading ramp (they're supposed to check for pedestrians in the delivery bay and enter slowly), but instead of tensing up at the last minute when I saw it coming up behind out the corner of my eye, I wasn't even surprised (the delivery driver wasn't real bright and hardly a surprising person), I just rolled backwards over the hood which went under me at probably 15mph and the grill/headlights barely brushed the back of my knees before I was up and over it. I came down to one side near the windscreen and landed heavily and sure I went to a clinic but ultimately I just had sore legs for a couple a days, not even any bruising. I would've have two broken legs if I tensed up busily daydreaming whilst crossing the bay, but being a habitually mindful person I think being in the moment just allows a more logical natural reaction than shock-freeze, to lessen injury.

I've been a mindful person because I've had to be in very rough environments at an early age, was undersize and understrength and required any advantage for survival and emotional well being, such as being a step ahead of danger by being a little more keenly aware of it before it gets nasty. Point is I started doing that for an actual reason and it actually works. It's how streetwise people seem cunning or mature, they're not necessarily, they're just noticing ten times more things than most people at any moment because they've had to, they can still be immature or irrational like anyone but are very good at influencing followers among sheltered personalities because they seem so switched into everything.

Very few things surprise me and I rarely appear unprepared for anything which people do near me, even if they're unpredictable or outside experience. It's just being mindful that does that for you and I don't find it boring. That'd be like calling a night sky of stars boring.

I don't think it is is particularly useful as a way of life, particularly if you have things to do and a busy life to get on with, particularly if you have young children. But I think it can be very helpful if you have issues with anxiety, melancholy, and the like. It can be really useful and helpful to concentrate on the here and now and the minutiae of everyday experience to push out more unhelpful thoughts.