So I took the sage advice of others and got myself a $20 TracFone. Excellent advice, worked like a charm.
My business trip ends this week and I am faced with returning home to the front lines. The concern is, where do you keep your phone so that someone else does not find it? That could be disastrous. Looking for advice from those who have already come up with great ideas on this.
This has been asked and answered recently on the board, but some options include:
car
somewhere at your office
gym bag
shed
Whatever you do, don't let your bat phone get found. I know one fellow hobbyist going through living hell right now because he wasn't careful.
Ren'man
what you normally use. Same goes for ringtones. No stored numbers is good as is clearing out called/received numbers.
I use a stand alone web-based email account for any contact, and this was the first time I even used the bat phone. 1 quick call, 30 seconds. I will wipe the call log.
I can probably store it at the office I guess.
Where the cooking utensils are, where the cleaning supplies are, between your legs, etc.
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But seriously:
In your office is about as good a place as I can think of.
Hobby phone is great... but I clear the memory after each use. (Also GPS.) Yes, it means I must look up the number before going on a date. I keep my address book in a secure place on line. Please be sure to use a separate & unlinked hobby e-mail/unrelated pass words. Destroy any notes on time, date, location before you exit... so they can not be found later. I meet one of my Favs in a variety of locations... she has taken my notes for destruction, LOL!!
I currently have my hobby phone buried in my tools in my tool shed. I had a squirrelling place in a fold of foam, under some loose carpet in the side of my car trunk.
At one time, I kept an old cell in my car... even an un-activated cell must by law be able to call 9-1-1. So "It's just an emergency phone". See, no numbers in it! My elderly realitive keeps one in her car.
Finding a unknown phone is suspicious... calling the numbers found on it... PRICELESS!! (Tiger)
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Or flip it but thats more risky. I keep mine at the office or in my personal safety deposit box at the bank Where i also keep the cash for meetings.
Geez guys...this all sounds like lots of work! So you want to make a date, you have to rummage through the garage, dig through your trunk, or visit the bank - what if you get real horny on a bank holiday??
To each his own but I generally keep mine in my briefcase, office, or car. My SO wouldn't dare go through my briefcase and I just bought a cheap phone holder that I mounted up and under the dash (not as tough as it sounds...I can retrieve and replace my phone while driving no sweat).
For your specific dilemma...store your numbers in a secure address book (I use my work address book with code names) and delete everything off the phone. Put it in your trunk (in the pouch that holds the jack is a fave), but don't be surprised if you have problems with the battery because of the temperature changes.
One last hint...if you travel alot, be careful about reviewing providers with accurate info. Imagine trying to defend yourself when you have 5 reviews in travel cities and you were in those cities around the time of the reviews. I either wait for the girl to travel to my area and review her then or review her showing the real location but change the date so it doesn't co-incide with your travel.
To each his own but I generally keep mine in my briefcase, office, or car. My SO wouldn't dare go through my briefcase and I just bought a cheap phone holder that I mounted up and under the dash (not as tough as it sounds...I can retrieve and replace my phone while driving no sweat).
For your specific dilemma...store your numbers in a secure address book (I use my work address book with code names) and delete everything off the phone. Put it in your trunk (in the pouch that holds the jack is a fave), but don't be surprised if you have problems with the battery because of the temperature changes.
One last hint...if you travel alot, be careful about reviewing providers with accurate info. Imagine trying to defend yourself when you have 5 reviews in travel cities and you were in those cities around the time of the reviews. I either wait for the girl to travel to my area and review her then or review her showing the real location but change the date so it doesn't co-incide with your travel.
I take the proper precautions, I don't want word to get out either nor do I want to deal with legal problems...but keeping the play phone in a safety deposit box?? Do you call from the little room where the bank lets you open the box? What if you walked outside to call your favorite and you get hit by a bus with the phone still clutched in your hand displaying your her phone number???? My point is; if the only way I could hobby is to go through these extraordinary measures I might not hobby cause it seems like too much work and/or I had too much to lose. I keep my phone in a safe place in my car or in my brief case and delete all call records and contact info once a month or so...that's about as far as I'm willing to go to protect myself...and more worry on my part and I would seriously think twice about hobbying.
BTW, you do see the irony about "no such thing as too much work", "kids crying their eyes out", and "if I didn't care"...maybe with all that caring you shouldn't be hobbying?
BTW, you do see the irony about "no such thing as too much work", "kids crying their eyes out", and "if I didn't care"...maybe with all that caring you shouldn't be hobbying?
Heres an easy fix without alot of work, just put it somewhere nobody you want finding it goes. If they find it, oh well. 90% of the time i just keep it at work.
Imagine trying to defend yourself when you have 5 reviews in travel cities and you were in those cities around the time of the reviews.
If you look closely, if a lady visits "your town" from NYC her review will still say NYC; not "your town".
I'm not worried about my SO...but if I use an agency for a good deal of travel dates, they get busted, LE finds my handle in their records, checks reviews, and my reviews match the agency records and they somehow connect my handle to my name...it's pretty incriminating if I review a date in Chicago and I just happen to be there that month on business, and then Houston a month later and I happen to be in Houston that month.
I just wait until the girl is in NY and review her as if I saw her in NY, or I do the review when I see them but change the "date" to a bit earlier in the year.
Holy shit Batman! You guys jump through a lot of hoops. Try using Google voice. One cell phone, two numbers. It has text, voice mail and everything.
When I started the hobby, I promised I'd not do anything really stupid... but as I've become more experienced, my opinion of what is "really stupid" has changed. I could never get away with time at the gym but I might have time hanging at a sporting goods store... Actually, I do have a bag specific to a sport I do... no one looks at it twice, since everyone knows what is in it... but it has a twin that they do not know about. I can tell them apart by feel.
Be sure to SHUT the hobby phone off. No chance of it making noises when stored.
Yes, I could get hit by a bus on the way from a date (I'll die with a shit eating grin on my face). The hobby phone will not be a concern to me at that point. Why I was in the hotel lot, might be a harder question. Driving carefully & lawfully (no accidents or tickets) in places you are not expected to be.
I don't keep the phone or hobby money under lock & key... I do not make withdrawals to play. Rather I increased my cash back for "pocket money"... I never have carried all my funds every day, I leave the excess in my desk at home. When there's enough to play, I find the opportunity for it. NO, wifee leaves my money alone & I leave hers. We've always had separate accounts because she had children previous & their funds were not co-mingled.
I up-graded my hobby phone to a trimmer Trac Fone which fits nicely in the belt carrier for my regular phone, I just switch.
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Three words: KEEP IT SIMPLE! Aside from erasing data and all that I treat my bat phone like it was a hand gun. Separate the battery from the phone when not in use and hide them both in different places. It will also come in handy if you get involved with LE. Anything on your person can be used as evidence including your phone. Keeping the battery in a different place, even another pocket in your pants, makes it harder to for LE to use anything in the phone as evidence against you. When asked about the phone by ANYONE including your SO, again KEEP IT SIMPLE!!!! Just say that you found it. Hell, I even scraped the cheap $20 phone on concrete a little to give it some character and just threw it in the trunk of my car. My wife sees the batteryless phone in there all the time and has never questioned it.
Good luck!