Flying to Ohio and I charge my phone overnight, duh. Need to leave at 4:30 AM to catch my flight. Grab my phone off the charger heading out the door and it reads 100%. Get to the security check point after a 20 minute ride to the airport, pull out my phone to get my boarding pass and it reads 1% and powers off. Luckily didn’t need boarding pass. Tried to charge it while waiting for the flight and it goes up and down on percentages. Barely any power and huge connection issues trying to contact my ride on arrival. Get to destination, charge phone and no problem for 11 days until the day I leave. Same scenario except my flight didn’t leave until 8:30pm. Phone drained charge and would not charge during the day. Get back and phone charges to 100% and lasts all day off the charger. No problems. Flight info listed in calendar. Any thoughts? Anyone else had this happen?
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You were very fortunate in all those cases. Some do not have good fortune. My wife slid off the highway in the snow beyond cell phone service up in the mts where we live. Sat there for 2 hours before someone passed by. Got sick from the cold. It "can" be done but everyone is different.
You are not wrong by any means (How do you like that sentence with a double negative?). Each of us have our own unique situation and know what's best. I tend to reflect about a time before cell phones and constantly ask myself if we are any better off. My answer to this is no, but that's just me. My wife and kids all have cell phones. But, there's something more that's going on that deserves everyones' attention. When in Canada provinces are requiring an app to show vax☠xine passport status to buy or travel, and when the G20 governments agreed that vax☠xine passports should be implemented, this is when I say it's looking more and more like the Beast system and cell phones are being used as the gateway to establish it. It wasn't all that long ago in the era of pagers that it was common practice in winter to carry emergency items when traveling in rural areas of the country. It still needs to be practiced. Cell phones don't always work. I remember the requirement was a strong flashlight, tools, a good blanket, and emergency flares. Your spare tire required to be checked and maintained along with the jack and tire changing tools. I still remind my kids, who are now young adults, to always bring their coats with them. The habit is all too easy not to bring them. This is even in the metro area.
Anyway, everyone is different. It is a preference and mindset.
With corded house phones you had to hang up when arguing to let's say...drive to work. You would calm down after you hung up and things may cool down. However, now with cell phones you can argue walking to your car and then all the way to work. Many things get said now that otherwise wouldn't have.
As Jackie Gleason use to say.... "How true it is!"