Forgetting your phone

LabR@t · 28 Oct 2017 at 17:59

I made the mistake of leaving my phone at home :eek:

a whole day at work without it!
It felt like I had lost a limb, at break not having my phone allowed me take notice of my surrounding.
Everyone's glued to their phones, lol. Zero conversation going on! I ended up go back to work earlier as I was bored, pretty sad! I am now thinking of giving it up for a week to see how productive I become as I have lots of jobs (DIY) I can do, but have put off.

Thoughts? Are you a champion procrastinater?

johnny6 · 28 Oct 2017 at 18:24

Restaurants seem to have become a lonely/odd experience for many people now. The wife and I never get our phones out and just you know talk to one another when we are having a meal. However the amount of tables you see in total silence because everyone is on their phones is ridiculous. Can't people talk face to face anymore and enjoy the company of the person actually sitting with them.

Also people who work out the exact bill need to be hit on the nose with a rolled up newspaper but that's another matter.

Uther · 28 Oct 2017 at 18:27

Modern times, I'm guilty of it to on occasion since I got a 'smart' phone. Pretty pathetic really.

Raymond Lin · 28 Oct 2017 at 18:27

You need an Apple Watch.

almoststew1990 · 29 Oct 2017 at 00:39

I leave my phone at home at least once every two weeks. I turn off my morning alarm and then forget it. It really doesn't bother me to be honest.

lunar · 29 Oct 2017 at 01:24

I think we all should have a 'no phone day' each month on a designayed day.
People will come to realise that there is more to life than just sticking your head into a glowing rectangular box all day long.

Pixel · 29 Oct 2017 at 01:33

Getting work out of my staff has become increasingly difficult over the years as I often find them huddled in dark corners, necks craned, staring at their phones like zombies. A loud clap soon snaps them out of it, but I'm certain some of the 10+ minute toilet breaks are actually phone breaks. It reminds me of that episode of TNG where the crew becomes addicted to that alien game.

FoxEye · 29 Oct 2017 at 01:41

I've never understood the obsession with staring at a tiny screen all day. It's way worse than the 14" CRTs we had back in the 90s!!

That said, I do take my phone with me everywhere. But it stays in my pocket, unless... a) I'm making/answering a call, b) checking the time (have not worn a watch for over a decade), c) hopelessly lost, need GPS to save me

e: d) taking a picture of a cat.

Baron C · 29 Oct 2017 at 02:38

johnny6 said:
Restaurants seem to have become a lonely/odd experience for many people now. The wife and I never get our phones out and just you know talk to one another when we are having a meal. However the amount of tables you see in total silence because everyone is on their phones is ridiculous. Can't people talk face to face anymore and enjoy the company of the person actually sitting with them.

Also people who work out the exact bill need to be hit on the nose with a rolled up newspaper but that's another matter.

I own a few small restaurants. The majority of our customer base stare into their phones. I even ran a test where I would carefully lower the music till it was barley audible and not one person glued to their phone noticed.

It is sad to see families all individually glued to devices and no one speaking to another.

I have had to be very selective of staff for phone addiction.

Oh and the bill thing, I hear you and feel your pain!

Saffy · 29 Oct 2017 at 02:57

I have had the displeasure of leaving my phone at home when going out. I can only describe the feeling as sheer emptiness and regret. Hehe.

But it does make you think how life was without mobile devices and how things have changed. For the better or worse.

Limpnoodle · 29 Oct 2017 at 03:55

I dont get it, it cant be that bad... what else is there on the phone,... reddit!
ahh guess im too old

Rroff · 29 Oct 2017 at 04:52

Not quite as far as missing a limb but I definitely notice it if I forget my phone.

LabR@t · 29 Oct 2017 at 07:11

lunar said:
I think we all should have a 'no phone day' each month on a designayed day.
People will come to realise that there is more to life than just sticking your head into a glowing rectangular box all day long.

This is a good idea, I think it would wake people up.

AndyCr15 · 29 Oct 2017 at 07:46

I do often wonder how people get to 4 or 5 hours screen on time. Honestly I don't get that. I don't think I can leave my phone somewhere as I use it in the car or bike, so would realise before I left, but I only have around an hour screen on time a day at most.

Glaucus · 29 Oct 2017 at 08:27

AndyCr15 said:
I do often wonder how people get to 4 or 5 hours screen on time. Honestly I don't get that. I don't think I can leave my phone somewhere as I use it in the car or bike, so would realise before I left, but I only have around an hour screen on time a day at most.

Boring jobs, like today on a fault team so sat around doing nothing untill the phone goes off.

Phones to important to leave behind.

There's only so much crap you can talk about with the same colleagues every day.

SexyGreyFox · 29 Oct 2017 at 12:29

My phone is basically for emergencies and I get told off all the time for not replying to texts etc however I have forgotten it several times and I feel lost without it.
I think things like 'Typical I could break down or have an accident and not be able to contact somebody'.
My wife is the same and last Monday night we were in Berlin and she had triggered her LifeAssyst app to to send out an emergency message to me and my two daughters.
We both sat in Murphy's Bar taking zero notice of our phones buzzing & ringing for 2 hours because our kids were panicking.

CREATIVE!11 · 29 Oct 2017 at 12:38

People are addicted to their crackphones these days.

It's actually a genuine addiction. Tell them to put it down for an entire day and watch them fidget the entire time feeling urge to pick up their phone.

Smokey Deza · 29 Oct 2017 at 21:01

I couldn't care less. Suppose I would miss my music.

Pixel said:
A loud clap soon snaps them out of it,

I used do this to people who use them and don't look where they're going. Now I don't bother and just plough straight through them (unless they're bigger than me

).

Telecaster · 29 Oct 2017 at 22:08

Mine sits in the van glove box all day, I sometimes forget to take it out overnight. Smartphones are wasted on me, I don't need anything they do in my day-to-day life that a dumb phone wouldn't accomplish, the only reason I have it is because it was free.

FoxEye · 29 Oct 2017 at 23:55

Telecaster said:
Mine sits in the van glove box all day, I sometimes forget to take it out overnight. Smartphones are wasted on me, I don't need anything they do in my day-to-day life that a dumb phone wouldn't accomplish, the only reason I have it is because it was free.

The appeal of a smartphone for me isn't any of the apps or games. But it is nice that it combines a sat nav, phone, camera, calendar/alarm, SMS/email into a single device.

So whilst you won't find me checking social media on mine, if I'm more than 5m away from my house you will see me using the maps

(I'm so directionally challenged and useless at finding my way anywhere, it's absurd!!) And I do use it as a memory aide to make sure I don't miss a dentists appt, etc.

I guess mine is really just a glorified PDA.

But how anyone can use them for web browsing or gaming I have no idea. Stare at a tiny screen for so long? Not a chance. But then my eyesight is crap. And more importantly, I hate social media/web 2.0.