ETA: @mnemosyne two posts up.
Cool. Thank you. Yes, a much hipper vibe than mine. As to this bit
Here in the USA we’ve solved this problem a different way. At many venues bags of all sorts are simply prohibited. For “security”.
Body type and style of pants certainly have a lot to do with the issue of phones coming out of pants pockets. As for me…I used to try to keep a phone in the front pocket of my khakis (which are the only pants I wear…ever) and it kept sliding out when I put my feet up. I’d stand up from the couch or easy chair and the phone would stay behind.
As for pains in the back from keeping a wallet or phone in my back pocket, I didn’t imagine that this would be a problem until I turned into Hank Hill around 60 years of age.
A chiropractor told me I had back pain from sitting on my very thick wallet. Then he offered to make the wallet much thinner.
Love it!
I switched to a very thin wallet some years ago, but it didn’t help. Somebody I was talking to about my back pains said, “Why don’t you just move your wallet to your front pocket? That did the trick for me.”
I felt like an idiot.
Damn! That is an attractive bag. Like just about all Fossil bags. May have to get me one…
Sitting on wallets, thick or thin, is a known back trouble trigger in the piloting biz. Thicker wallets* are surely a quicker way to worse problems. Other occupational hazards are hemorrhoids and hearing loss.
Anyhow, dressier pants tend to have actual pockets with a liner. Unlike jeans that just have a roughly square patch sown onto the rump with the top edge unsewn.
With dress pants, it’s easy enough to learn to slide your back pocket liner & wallet off to the side as you sit. So it’s alongside your hip/rump, not under it. Much mo’ bettah. And again easier with a thinner wallet.
* Back when the 747 first came out the joke went around: “Why the hump? To make room for the Captain’s wallet”. Ah, to have worked there back in the pre-deregulation days.
I’ve been to a lot of venues recently that allow only transparent bags. There’s a whole new industry making clear vinyl backpacks and fanny packs. Carrying one of those makes you look like the ultimate dork, but at least you can get your stuff in the venue.
Huh. I wear Levis 550 exclusively (except for the occasional wedding or funeral). They are designed to be loose fit jeans. I could get my phone in a front pocket, would be a bitch to get it out though. Certainly couldn’t do it when I’m sitting, no way.
Of course jacket pockets are a different story. But I want my phone, wallet, keys too ALWAYS be in the same location. I am currently sitting. I might get a phone call or text. With the holster I can pop it off and back on it about 7 seconds. If I managed to put it in a pocket, I would have to stand to get it out.
My keys go in my pockets of course. But I know when I’m going to need them.
I went to an MLB Spring Training baseball game recently.
Transparent or mesh bags / backpacks were allowed. As long as they were smaller than 12"x12"x4". Good luck buying one that size. A LOT of bags, including mine, were turned away at the gate. To monster grumbling since the parking area is kinda big and it was already rather a hike from the car to the security checkpoint. Only to learn we have to do it twice more.
I went to a different MLB game at a different park a couple days later. No bags, period, clear or otherwise. Once inside a lotta women seemed to be carrying ordinary purses, but only small ones. Roughly speaking, if it could fit a beer can or water bottle inside, it was too big to be allowed inside.
Yeah, I actually do have “mad leatherworking skilz”. Not the most common skill set, but for decades I’ve been making/repairing my own leather items.
But you do have a good point about Amazon and returns.
I’ve got one that size. Mesh. bought it a camping store. I use it as my dop kit. I like the mesh cause I can see inside. And not just go ‘fishing’ It’s certainly not any kind of back pack, or even a fanny pack.
Concerts at Red Rocks pretty much the same. And DON’T try to take liquids in. We could toss our pre-mixed plastic bottle of margaritas, or drink it right there. We had quite a buzz on before the concert.
They do sell beer and water and pop at the concert. But they open them first and keep the cap. They don’t want any missiles, a closed 16oz bottle of water thrown could really hurt.
I’ve seen those as camping or whatever gear bags. But I don’t carry anything in my hands if I can avoid it. It’s gotta be a backpack style for me.
When I was working, I used a cell phone holster during the day. I had a bag, but I didn’t carry it walking around the building, only a couple of pairs of pants had big enough pockets, and I didn’t really want to walk around with the phone in my hand.
I can bring a bag up to 16"x16"x8" to the MLB stadium , even a soft sided cooler - as long as it isn’t a backpack. Only clear backpacks with no obscured pockets. Supposedly it’s about searching the pockets - but other bags can have just as many pockets. They give some answer in the FAQ about how prohibiting backpacks will supposedly mean fewer bags to be screened, but I don’t buy it.
A friend who attends a lot of concerts has a stash of her own bottle caps of various sizes that she brings in to seal the bottle after she buys it.
Red Rocks security once refused to let me bring in a set of juggling balls. The guy said “you might throw them at someone”. I told him that they cost me $50; I wasn’t going to throw them unless I immediately caught them. He was not impressed.
Kind of a good idea. Ya might want to stick it in your backpack or a pocket or something. But I understand why they open them for you and keep the cap.
It’s very sad that it only takes one or two random assholes to ruin things for the rest of us.
Not quite. It only takes one or two random assholes and a ridiculous cultural attitude of required over-reaction to ruin it for the rest of us.
If the cops grab the assholes and everybody else, including venue management, shrugs and moves on, the rest of us can continue to be treated as responsible adults, not as untrustworthy feral children.
IMO the problem is not the random assholes. Like the poor, they will always be with us. The problem is entirely the zero-defect safety/security mentality that says every adverse event must be met by a policy change that might possibly reduce the likelihood of a similar recurrence.
Which doesn’t really work, and in fact can’t work, since the random assholes just find a different way to misbehave. It being so deeply in their nature to do so.
My side-arms are like Flint, Michigan Coffee. Black and full of lead.
Ok. I hate to hear dorky first off. I have an autistic brother who has performed night stocking for a major grocer for 25 yrs. He has only gotten a smart phone in the last year. His motor skills are great, his memory….not so much. He literally has a fanny pac holster on his belt so that he has his phone at all times but it doesn’t get bruised if you will. I’m multi tasking as fast as I can people but I can’t teach him how to use an IPhone (which he did amazing at by the way) AND keep it safe all at the same time. If people are making fun of him because he’s carrying it that way well…then eff you. Stay in your lane.
Hey! Your autistic brother has as much right to be a dork as everyone else in this thread.
LOL! It’s more the fact that I know people make fun of him for his phone holster using that term. Not in a kidding way but a mean way.