"John T" wrote in message
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C Kingsbury wrote:

Second, those 2-5 hours I'm
in the aluminum tube are the last hours of my life when my
boss/clients/girlfriend/etc do not expect me to be reachable by phone,
email, or text message. I'd much rather keep it that way.

If you tell me what model phone you have, I'm sure I can help find the
power
switch for you. At the very least, I can help remove the battery.

For whose convenience is the phone: Yours or the people who call you?

If I turn the phone off I'll get an angry message saying "why didn't you
pick up?" The other party may be the boorish one but that doesn't solve my
problem. When I'm on a plane these days I have an excuse for being
unreachable. It's pretty much the last place where that's true.

-cwk.