Thanks for your suggestion and sorry to read about your friend’s loss. Certainly if I’m hiking I wear shorts with zip pockets (and the pocket with the car key always remains zipped until the walk is over). However, for daily wear, I much prefer Gant chino shorts, which, incidentally do have secure back pockets. I lost my wallet because I didn’t put it back in my pocket after leaving the hardware store with some lengths of timber and then putting it on the car roof!(!) instead of in my pocket while I loaded the car.
What do you do if you are on public transport with predatory pickpockets?
The only public transport I’ve used in many years is the Paris metro and one simply puts the wallet in a front pocket. My passport seldom leaves the house, In fact, last year it got left at home and I didn’t realise until I was asked for ID at a rental apartment in Barcelona! I shouldn’t have entrered Spain without my passport, but my titre de sejour did the job.
Sometimes it’s welcome rather than sinister. Today we replaced a large and complicated parasol that we bought a few months ago, and whose cord had snapped. Unfortunately, although we had the assembly manualand the parasol as proof of purchase, we couldn’t find the receipt, but nevertheless tried to get a replacement. To their credit the people at Le Clerc searched their database for our Visa card purchase and when they found the record, exchanged the parasol.
Of course the new parasol’s cord is no thicker and the problem will probably recur, but if it does and the rest of the parasol is OK, (ven though we’ve kept this receipt, I’ll probably just take it apart and replace the cord with a light stainless steel cable.
Use a Moeny belt. I bought a couple for us to use in Athens a few years back, and while it’s hard to prove a negative, we had no trouble in a city with a reputation.
I’d assumed it’s a very exclusive, though unfamiliar German brand possibly used in a doubly secure belt and braces lederhosen situation, but I could be wrong…
Handy for a lost receipt, the data is between you and the other party to the transaction. However consider the card provider marketing all your purchase history to companies to e.g. target you with ads for e.g. large and complicated parasols or - heaven forbid -
google is already there.
GDPR (and maybe some banking licenses) is all that protects us and AI is coming to get us. Your invoice for your medical treatment could end up in your alternative medical insurers in-tray when you come to switch…
I’ve got a fairly effective adblocker, but do enable cookies on some sites that I consider useful. Also I’m actually amused by how often Others that slip through the filters are so wide of the mark of anything that might be of interest.
I forced myself to watch a Spanish bull-fight on the Humane Society of the United States website, which reduced me to tears & anger, so much so that I made an antibullfighting video and published it on YouTube.
I spent a long time producing it using my treasured very expensive iPad Pro. I downloaded many images & videos on which I had spent several weeks transforming and adapting to include in the video.
A week ago, I couldn’t find the iPad Pro but remembered I had taken it with me when my car was serviced. I contacted Renault but it wasn’t there and it wasn’t anywhere at home. I went through a period of mourning, not for the device, but for all the work I had put into my anti-bullfighting video. And other stuff.
Then, what a relief! I found it under an untidy mess of papers next to my table top computer!
I have suggested to OH that he needs some kind of app on his i-pad, phone, kindle etc that beeps mournfully at him if he moves more than 2m away from the device in question.
I seem to be ‘losing’ not just my smartphone, keys and wallet of late, so may fix a few more ‘Chipolo tags’ to other items which have a mind of their own and go off to play hide and seek!
