Looked all over for my phone. Took it with me when I went to town this morning. I know I had it when I got home because I called a guy to tell him he'd left his keys in my truck.

Washed the Vette and touched up a couple of spots, decided to go for a ride. Left, got a ways from home and said "Dammit, I forgot my phone" but I wasn't about to go back.

So now I'm hunting high and low and not a sign of it anywhere. Called it, can't hear it ringing anywhere. Da fuq?

On a whim, googled up "find my phone" and, since it's Android and has google on it, it popped right up. About a mile from the house. I immediately knew what had happened:

1. Getting in and out of the Vette requires some gymnastics and I sometimes lay the phone on the back deck until I wiggle into the cock pit.

2. The location Google showed me was on the first of 3 90° uphill corners that were MADE for taking quickly on a bike or in a well-handling car. I always lean on it a bit through those corners.

Sure as shit, I left the phone on the back deck of the car and when I was barreling ass through that first corner, it went shooting off the freshly waxed deck and into a parking lot.

How it laid there for several hours without getting run over or picked up, I'll never know.

Find my phone works, just like the Apple air tags.

Good job finding it, I've picked up a bad habit of putting my phone on the back corner of the pickup bed when loading/unloading, say it every time that It's going to bite me one day..

Still do it...

I just leave it at home on the charger unless I need it for CarPlay. If so, in each vehicle, it has a station. At destination I lock it up in the glove and don’t carry it. At $1000, it’s more expensive than the damn gun, spare mag, and holster combined. You take a couple steps back and think about how these damn things have taken over life, it’s just ridiculous.

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Originally posted by Prefontaine:
You take a couple steps back and think about how these damn things have taken over life, it’s just ridiculous.

I agree, up to a point, but it CAN be treated as a tool, and used like one. I'm not one to have it surgically attached to my ear and I can and do ignore it for hours, sometimes days, at a time.

But when I'm away from home I want my wife to be able to get in touch if needed, and I want a way to get help if needed. So typically, I don't leave home without it. Simple as that.

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Originally posted by PHPaul:

But when I'm away from home I want my wife to be able to get in touch if needed, and I want a way to get help if needed. So typically, I don't leave home without it. Simple as that.

Yup. The years continue to add up, and it's comforting to have a way to receive emergency communication from my wife, and call for help if I need to. My balance is really bad; I have not fallen recently, but it could happen at any time.

Carry mine all the time in my shirt pocket. If I’m talking on it, it’s on speaker, in my shirt pocket.

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Originally posted by PHPaul:

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Originally posted by Prefontaine:
You take a couple steps back and think about how these damn things have taken over life, it’s just ridiculous.

I agree, up to a point, but it CAN be treated as a tool, and used like one. I'm not one to have it surgically attached to my ear and I can and do ignore it for hours, sometimes days, at a time.

But when I'm away from home I want my wife to be able to get in touch if needed, and I want a way to get help if needed. So typically, I don't leave home without it. Simple as that.

All of the above pretty much sums up my position on this with one addition though. If I'm headed to the DMV or the airport or anywhere else I might need to wait/waste time, I want that phone with me. I remember sitting at the airport, cleaning out and organizing my old phones many times.

I have a Galaxy Watch with a cell connection. I can make and receive calls on my watch even if I forget or lose my phone. It's pretty convenient.

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Originally posted by 83v45magna:

All of the above pretty much sums up my position on this with one addition though. If I'm headed to the DMV or the airport or anywhere else I might need to wait/waste time, I want that phone with me. I remember sitting at the airport, cleaning out and organizing my old phones many times.

That too. I have the Kindle app on my phone, so I can read while waiting.

I've done the same thing myself years go. Did a brake job on the mustang and had set my phone on the trunk lid while I was working, then went out for a test drive and afterwards couldn't find my phone. Ended up walking the block and found it at the first turn. It was in pieces, but when I popped it back together it still worked.

Good thing it wasn't an iPhone. These days the damn thing would have probably called 911 and reported that you were in a wreck. We get those all the time, and then get out there and find a phone lying in the road .

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Originally posted by Paten:
I have a Galaxy Watch with a cell connection. I can make and receive calls on my watch even if I forget or lose my phone. It's pretty convenient.

Same here but the Apple Watch. It allows me to store the stupid phone securely 100%, always, and spares me from having to fret over it, or tote the thing around. With the AirPod Pros in my pocket in the case, not much bigger than a matchbox, it’s a way smaller footprint to carry and unlike the phone, the watch is mounted extremely securely on the wrist. Anything I need done (text, phone calls, home automation notifications) can be done on the watch and I just tell my bitch to do this or that.

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Originally posted by Prefontaine:

I just tell my bitch to do this or that.

I'm assuming that would be Siri. Does it answer to that name?

You mean you can use one of those things to communicate? Well, I'll be dipped...and here all I do with mine is play video games.

You set your phone on the back deck when you get in.
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