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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Often, I leave it at home, for any local "outs and abouts"!
Left at home, and switched off.
On longer journeys I take it lest I need summon help - as a couple of years ago when my car broke down, enforcing an extra week's holiday a few hundred miles from home. (I could have had it and I relayed home but I'd still have been faced with having it repaired.) Or far more commonly, for quick calls to friends to arrange meetings.
On such excursions it is switched off unless and until I need it (or have arranged to be called).
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The one thing I would never do is carry it sticking out of a back pocket, even though my portable 'phone is too compact to do much protruding from any pocket. A phone hanging out of a hip pocket is too easily sat on by mistake, to fall out - or to invite theft by a pick-pocket or robber.
Left at home, and switched off.
On longer journeys I take it lest I need summon help - as a couple of years ago when my car broke down, enforcing an extra week's holiday a few hundred miles from home. (I could have had it and I relayed home but I'd still have been faced with having it repaired.) Or far more commonly, for quick calls to friends to arrange meetings.
On such excursions it is switched off unless and until I need it (or have arranged to be called).
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The one thing I would never do is carry it sticking out of a back pocket, even though my portable 'phone is too compact to do much protruding from any pocket. A phone hanging out of a hip pocket is too easily sat on by mistake, to fall out - or to invite theft by a pick-pocket or robber.