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But what about when away from home and neighbors?
Well, we don't tend to go out too often, when we do, we tend to go together, especially if we are going into the countryside. Himself has a terrible sense of geography, thinks left is right even at home, that sort of thing, so two people make for better teamwork. Also the public phone system in the country is quite good. I believe there's a legal requirement for a working public phone every mile or something - probably five miles in the country - so we're covered. When I was a kid we didn't have a phone, my parents only got one within the last three years and I'm 42 now. They've never had cause to need a phone. My grandparents only got a phone when I went to university so they could reach them in an emergency.
Seriously, despite the fact that there are enough phones in existence for everyone in the country to have three, it's perfectly possible to get along without one. After all Alexander Graham Bell was only born in 1847. In geological time that's like a blink of an eye.