Lending Your Phone To Strangers

Learn to say "no".

I would only allow someone to use my phone if they had been robbed of theirs and needed to call the cops or call home.

Tell them no. Why is that hard?

This reminds me of the time when iPods first came out. Some kid was chatting with his friends and a weird guy wouldn't leave him alone until the kid let him shove the ear bud into his ear for a listen. Barf.

"Just let me listen. Why not?" Over and over until the kid relented.

It's always an emergency.

It's happened twice this weekend and three times last week at the library, outdoor cafe, and train depot.

I just assumed you wouldn't ask for a phone unless it was life or death.

Instead, it's usually "Will you pick me up?" and the answer looks like it's "No."

Tell them no. I no longer smoke but I told them no for that as well. When I worked across the street from a homeless shelter I would get asked at least 10 times a day. So annoying!

I always say, "I'm sorry, I can't help you" and walk on.

In the age of COVID, I cannot imagine letting even Betty White use my phone if she had said she had just been mugged.

Tell the truth, OP. You are exaggerating.

You seem stupid!

Sometimes a lost boy in a park at night might need to borrow a phone! It would be immoral not to help him out!

These people are grifters, OP. Don’t even bother saying “no”.

I have resting bitch face, very few people approach me. There was one time I was sitting in front of the AirBnB that I was staying at, on my phone, and an older teenager came running up to me and asked to use my phone because his mom was in an accident. I looked down the street from whence he came, and there was nothing, so I said, "No". He then tried to pluck it out of my hand, but my phone was attached to me by a strap (Bandolier thank you) and fell out of his hand. I kicked him in the knee and yelled, "GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME", and he ran away.

I would NEVER loan my phone to a stranger. If there was an emergency, I would offer to make a call for them.

Tell them about Susanswerphone.

Yuck, shit, cum, smegma, gook, germs, spit, sweat, boogers, what not from strangers on your phone.

And OP wouldn't know how a battalion of diseases have hit her if she just dropped dead.

[quote]I need to come up with a way to use my phone unobtrusively without attracting the needy.

Move to Canada.