[Albion] What's the best way to respond if a stranger asks to borrow your phone?

[hitony]

I would not hand my phone to anyone, at best I would make the call for them and put it on loudspeaker and hold the phone so they could hold a brief conversation, a conversation I would want to know the basics about prior to me dialing the number!

I can't understand anyone just handing a stranger their phone? in many cases nowadays it would be like handing someone your wallet with anything from £350 upwards with cash in it!!!

 

[Adders1]

Hit them. In these situations it's best to get the first punch in.

haha! charitable fella aren't you?

 

[pastafarian]

I have encountered this tricky problem far too many times.

The solution however is very simple.

Unplug your landline in the hallway and take the phone with you to football.

When asked simply produce the phone and explain how you are having similar problems and cant find a socket anywhere.

Hit yourself in the nuts at the same time,then run around in circles.


i have found 9 times out of 10 the situation rapidly resolves itself

 

[cloud]

Do they not have telephone boxes any more?

 

[Max Paper]

 

[Ned]

No is a perfectly acceptable answer.

Everyone who owns a mobile has a responsibility to ensure it has enough charge before they leave the house or a manner of charging it whilst away from home.

If a stranger came up to you and said "can you lend me £500 pounds?" I'm guessing most would respond in the negative but the average smartphone amounts to that in replacement costs these days & I doubt insurance would cover this as you willingly handed it over.

 

[Triggaaar]

haha! charitable fella aren't you?

 

[Seagull on the wing]

Tell him/her you do not own a phone....not everybody does...

 

[pasty]

Think I would go down the "I've got no credit" route.

 

[Arthritic Toe]

Miserable bloody bunch.

How about saying "Sure - no problem, happy to help."

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I did this. He looked surprised that anyone would say no to his request to lend a phone to a stranger in the pitch dark.

This has happened to me 3 times I think. I've let the person use my phone all 3 times. In all three times there was nothing to make me think the person was anything other than genuine and I think I am a reasonable judge of situations. Seems there are a lot of very suspicious people one here.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Miserable bloody bunch.

How about saying "Sure - no problem, happy to help."

Very much this.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

it would be like handing someone your wallet with anything from £350 upwards with cash in it!!!

This is an utterly rubbish analogy isnt is it? They might be of similar value but the scenarios are totally different.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I would not hand my phone to anyone, at best I would make the call for them and put it on loudspeaker and hold the phone so they could hold a brief conversation, a conversation I would want to know the basics about prior to me dialing the number! I can't understand anyone just handing a stranger their phone? in many cases nowadays it would be like handing someone your wallet with anything from £350 upwards with cash in it!!!

Why are you so suspicious?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Miserable bloody bunch.

How about saying "Sure - no problem, happy to help."

Having read some of these posts I'm starting to think a lot of Albion fans are a bit weird as opposed to miserable.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Seriously, if anyone is worried about just saying a direct 'no' to someone, then just use the no battery / no credit excuse. They really won't ask you to prove it.

 

[Hillian1]

I have been asked several times at the football, it has never occurred to me that they may want to steal it.

 

[Return of the Rev]

Do they not have telephone boxes any more?

This and give him 2p for the phone!

 

[hitony]

This is an utterly rubbish analogy isnt is it? They might be of similar value but the scenarios are totally different.[/QUOTE

If you say so.

 

[hitony]

Why are you so suspicious?

My phone my perogative and my scenario of what I would do in that situation, very likely.