Not taking his mobile phone out with him ...aibu to be annoyed?

[whatajoket]

My lovely dad is getting on a bit.
He lives alone.
He is still fit and healthy and gets all over the place but obviously I worry.
He has a mobile and never takes it out with him.
He just uses it in the house.
Today I'm ringing and ringing and no answer ..so obviously I worry.
Have to go to he's to check on him and I have a spare key.
Get there he isn't in and his phones on the coffee table.
I mean come on ..how hard would it be to put his phone in his pocket to save me panicking and having to rush across.

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to worry my dad died unexpectedly a couple of years ago my mum is brilliant and fit but if she doesn’t answer FaceTime when I’m expecting I do panic a bit. I just have to check myself and realise if something had happened someone would almost certainly know and call me. She does take her phone but she can’t hear it. She knows I panic though so is reasonably good at texting perhaps you could ask your dad to text if he’s gong out for a long time ?

It seems so instinctive to people of younger generations who've grown up with more technology, but to a lot of older people (by no means all), it's just not something in their psyche. You'll probably find that, even if he remembered to take it with him, he probably wouldn't think to switch it on or to charge the battery. It took me a long time to get used to the absurdity of having to charge a phone every night rather than twice a month.

I'm middle aged, so young enough to be able to get used to plenty of things, but others just leave me baffled. Actually, it's not that I can't understand or learn about them - I just don't want to or see the need for it.

Take Snapchat, for example: I have a vague idea what it is, but I couldn't care less to find out more or use it. How would it improve my life? But ask most 16-year-olds and they probably don't see how they could possibly live without it.

You sound very kind and considerate, but I'm sure he'll be fine. If he's at home, he'll have his landline and if he's out and about, he surely won't go so far off the beaten track that nobody could help him should he need it.

I’m 37 and rarely take my phone out with me, apart from to work.

I like the freedom

I purchased my mother a basic phone many years ago. She doggedly didn’t use it and even if she took it out with her she never switched it on. Seemed to think it was somehow wasteful to run down the battery. When I asked her why she didn’t switch the phone on she explained that it was because then people might ring her on it. I gave up at that point.

I'm the same age as your DF and my mobile was last charged a couple of months ago, since which time it has been languishing in the bottom of a bag I rarely use. I hate this obsession with phones. As for Yeahnahmum's suggestion to get him a trackable watch, I' don't know about your DF but my response wouldn't be very polite.