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I'm right handed, but I keep my phone in my left pocket since I like to be able to pull out my phone to check the map or msgs while using my primary hand for another activity.

When texting, I usually use both hands but certainly can type with just my left hand.

Where do you keep your phone & why?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I put away my phone in the opposite pocket from my keys. When I retrieve it, I always pull it out of the same pocket as my keys. Not sure what that's all about.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Left handed, right pocket. Nothing else goes in that pocket.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Left handed, left pocket, nothing else in that pocket. Sometimes left coat or jacket pocket but prefer pants.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Nice try, phone thieves.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Right pocket on the uniform, because I fear putting my shears and stethoscope in the same pocket, and the shears have a tip that doesn't facilitate the left pocket, and the stethoscope rubber is too grabby on the phone.

Left pocket in general, because my wallet is in the right and I hate them clanking together.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Between my butt cheeks as it helps me stay fit by clenching my butt all day.

Also, in my roght pocket as I'm right handed and use my phone a lot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Your prison pocket

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

#NudistProblems

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Left. Because my keys, cigarettes, and lighter are in the right and there's no more room for the phone.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Left, because my keys are in my right pocket and I don’t want to scratch the phone

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Same. Left pocket is phone, and phone alone.

Right pocket is everything else.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Right handed, phone front left, keys front right, wallet back right. It's a perfect system. Not sure about other countries but in the US the key start is always on the right side of the steering column and I unlock doors with my right hand.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Huh, I just considered I don't have a typical pocket I put my phone in. I'm right handed and I think I tend to put my phone in my left pocket more? Maybe? But I just took it out of my right pocket so I'm not sure.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Gotta ask, are you the type of person that regularly misplaces things?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I see you. My best friend is the type of person who never knows where his things are, and part of that is he doesn't have a set system for where things go. My wife is the same way, but until the patriarchy puts more pockets in women's clothes she gets a pass on that one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I mean, not having a set system makes it harder to find things sure. But for me the moment my autopilot brain doesn't place my keys exactly where I normally put them, I will have to search for them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I have a semi system at this point for most of my stuff. I don't carry much with me though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I'm right-handed and carry my phone in a belt pouch on my left. I take it out and hold it with my left hand while I tap or type with my right. I do all of my typing with a swype-type keyboard, so I just use my right hand for that too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Right handed, right back pocket (front if my trousers don't have back pocket). Or more often in my handbag.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Wallet and Keys in left pocket, phone and everything else in right.

I never use the back pocket.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Wallet back right, phone back left. When I sit down, I pull it out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Same as you. Right Handed, left pocket. My wallet is in my right front pocket. I would bet my older age has everything to do with this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Usually left back or side pocket, or in my hand, or under one leg/between my legs if I'm sitting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Left-handed, left pocket. Just habit I guess. Right side is always keys and headphones.

For temporary stowaways around the house (especially when cooking) it can go in either of the back pockets, depending on which hand I'm holding it with.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Am I the only one that quite often leaves it at home?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

haha, thieves noting where they put their wallets 😂

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Right handed, left pocket.

When I was deciding what went where, I drove a car with actual locks and cell phones were really only for calls, you didn't spend all day looking at it. So my keys spent more time in my hands than my phone did.

Now it's a habit and I can't change it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Samesies. My keys always went in my right pocket so when cellphones came along that went to the left front pocket to protect it from my keys.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Right handed, left pocket.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Back left pocket

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Pocket? I keep everything in a cross body bag.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

This is the way. I've used a purse for years and it is so much better.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

it's called a fanny pack no matter how you wear it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

No apologies! :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hmm, what size bag do you use?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Big enough to hold my personal phone, work phone, 9" tablet, wallet, passport, my medical gear, and my concealed carry handgun. ;) Decent sized!

I have the same bag in a slightly larger size if I want to pack my Steam Deck. LOL.

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