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A good pair of headphones is as critical as a phone and house keys when you’re stepping out of the house for any length of time - yes, even to do some gardening.
Forget them, and your ears will likely be at the mercy of pavement chuggers and tedious supermarket chat (Waitrose the universal exception, of course).