How many of you have the will power to do this?

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This is something that has always amazed me with my best mate.
Every Thursday we go round theirs for a curry and two things will happen:
1) His phone rings and he goes to pick the grandkids up from 2.5 miles away
2) His phone rings and he goes to pick the curry up 1.5 miles away
Both times he will put the his phone on the table and just go, obviously 10 years ago for around 4 weeks I said "You've forgot your phone" but he takes no notice and just goes.
Even at my old age I wouldn't be able to leave the house to go 100 yards without my phone, I'm not addicted to it, it's a lifeline.

About a year ago he left to get the curry and was a long time so I picked his phone up and went to look for him, his car had broken down so I gave him his phone and he waited for recovery while I took the curry back home.
Now you'd think after that experience he'd take his phone with him but no and last night he broke down again which meant I had to eventually go looking for him and took his phone.

So OCUK, how many of you would gladly leave your phone at home while going out, I know I can't?
 
Uther said:
I spent the first 30 ish years of my life without a mobile, because they didn't exist. Now it feels strange to be without it. I'm trying to break the habit though so when I go out walking (just around, for exercise, not hiking over the hills...) I leave it at home.
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My story really, I used to do lots of long distance running and of course the phone didn't go with me however I've had at least 3 incidents where I've been at least 5 miles from home and I've had to knock on a door or spot somebody in a garden to ask them to ring my wife so she could come and get me.
 
Brazo said:
I take it but stow it until genuinely needed. I’m amazed at these people who walk along with their phones out in front of them or check them constantly when your talking to them.
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They are an absolute nightmare when I'm cycling and they think it's OK to step into the road where cars won't be but a cyclist will.
I've come off my bike 3x because of it.
 
ttaskmaster said:
The wife can't even take hers with her when she goes to work.
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In 2008 I went to work in a Juvenile Prison so left my phone in the car, they would also ask at reception but I'd say it's in the car.
A month later I had my Corporate Induction with Head of Security and loads of new starters and to my horror the sounds of Metallica Master of Puppets came from my pocket, I could have fell through the floor.
Oscar One (Head of Security) said "everybody gets one chance, that's yours".
 
The_Arbiter said:
Doesn't seem like an issue to me, sure the phone would've been handy, but not the end of the world.
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So being broken down a mile or two from home isn't an issue :)
Remember both times I was sent out for him and both times took his phone to him to ring recovery.
If I did the same with my disabilities I wouldn't be able to walk home.
 
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jpaul said:
middle aged folks anyway, know how to fix cars w/o internet access - the world&cars&A-team worked fine before them
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Being 62 he knows how to change tyres but this needed to be towed and if I didn't go looking for him it would have been hours because he wouldn't have got back home with his comorbidities.
I'm amazed that after two incidents he still leaves his phone on the table.
Both times he knew somebody would come and find him.
And in the house he's always looking at his phone so it isn't a case of him rarely using it.
 
Chris Wilson said:
Perhaps if it bugs you so much you should NOT go and search for him if he goes astray, and teach him the overwhelming requirement to carry his phone on his person at all times to avoid inconvenience and distress? To be frank, as a test of willpower, leaving my phone at home if I go out is about 1 on a scale of 10 in the grand tests of mental stamina :)
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He could be dead, bad heart so you think he would know better.
I've got another friend who refuses to have even a cheap burner but so far in the last two years we've had a mortified wife begging us to go and look for him 3 times when he's been out on his bike for hours.
He doesn't accept the stress he has caused everybody at 70 years old.
 
Derek W said:
^^ This.

I leave my phone behind when i go out cycling as well (I know a lot take them). I've crashed a couple of times but nothing too serious so I'm managed to limp back home without issue. I've known life before being reliant on mobile phones / internet on the go so sometimes its nice to know that you're not going to have interruptions / distractions when you're doing something you want to do.
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I said above my 70 year old BIL has caused so much trouble for the family by having loads of us searching for him while out on his bike because he refuses to even have a 3210.
Put it in your pocket and turn all sound and buzzers off.
 
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