Thanks for showing me a new word! “Verisimilitude” seems useful.

For those like me…

noun: The quality of appearing to be true or real. synonym: truth.

Context implied it but still…Nice word!

Just keep your phone permanently in airplane mode; problem fixed.

“My wireless bluetooth headset is about to die…”

Look for those “call before you dig” signs, then do the opposite.

My phone’s about to die, but I’ll start typing the rest of the tips for your friend:

• Never, in ANY circumstance

Here’s one, set an alarm to go off in the middle of a date, pretend it’s a phone call and if the date is going badly “take the call” and say you’ve got to leave. I could say my roommate has forgot their keys and accidentally locked themselves out for example.

I’ll wait with you in awkward silence.

Never start a phone call.

How about throwing it into a faraday cage? Like the bags used for those transponders for tolls, or wrap it in foil… Or just mute the phone and ignore it.

Thank you Skeletor!

I believe the phone does hang up the active call as part of its shutdown routine though. So getting a hangup message is still in line with that.