Easy...when walking past the person you don't like in the hallway, just pull out the iPhone as though it has just buzzed you with a new sms/im/email. Then look intently into the phone while you walk on by. No need to avert eyes or any of the other high school nonsense you normally pull...a much more mature way to avoid eye contact. In fact, the more intently you look into the phone, the more legitimate your eye-contact-aversion. Hell, you don't even have to turn the phone on, as we all know how the battery life sux ass, so might as well conserve juice.
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How To Use The iPhone To Avoid People You Don't Like
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I have been using this trick with my bog-standard Nokia for years!nebulae wrote:Easy...when walking past the person you don't like in the hallway, just pull out the iPhone as though it has just buzzed you with a new sms/im/email. Then look intently into the phone while you walk on by. No need to avert eyes or any of the other high school nonsense you normally pull...a much more mature way to avoid eye contact. In fact, the more intently you look into the phone, the more legitimate your eye-contact-aversion. Hell, you don't even have to turn the phone on, as we all know how the battery life sux ass, so might as well conserve juice.
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Re: How To Use The iPhone To Avoid People You Don't Like
Yes, but the believability factor is greatly reduced by your Nokia...I'd say on the Vista computer rating scale, the nokia eye aversion rates around 2.6, where the iPhone comes in around 4.4. Still waiting on how the Blackberry Storm rates, but I suspect it's 4.3 tops.ollyb303 wrote:I have been using this trick with my bog-standard Nokia for years!nebulae wrote:Easy...when walking past the person you don't like in the hallway, just pull out the iPhone as though it has just buzzed you with a new sms/im/email. Then look intently into the phone while you walk on by. No need to avert eyes or any of the other high school nonsense you normally pull...a much more mature way to avoid eye contact. In fact, the more intently you look into the phone, the more legitimate your eye-contact-aversion. Hell, you don't even have to turn the phone on, as we all know how the battery life sux ass, so might as well conserve juice.
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I'm currently reading a Timur-related post on my iPhone in order to avoid responding to you.beats me wrote:Did you post this topic using your iphone in order to avoid somebody you don't like?
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Another great way I've found to avoid taking calls from people I don't want to talk to, is to simply not answer and say that my battery was dead or I never got the call and it went straight to voicemail. One or the other is usually true so I don't feel like I'm lying much! And people often see me getting a text that I got a voicemail for a call I never heard. So it lends credibility to the story.
How I love my unreliable iphone.
How I love my unreliable iphone.
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yes, but both require a level of response from you....my methods cost you nothing.glitchrock-buddha wrote:Another great way I've found to avoid taking calls from people I don't want to talk to, is to simply not answer and say that my battery was dead or I never got the call and it went straight to voicemail. One or the other is usually true so I don't feel like I'm lying much! And people often see me getting a text that I got a voicemail for a call I never heard. So it lends credibility to the story.
How I love my unreliable iphone.
Re: How To Use The iPhone To Avoid People You Don't Like
LOL. At least if my phone is turned off, there's a much smaller screen area to give me awaynebulae wrote:Yes, but the believability factor is greatly reduced by your Nokia...I'd say on the Vista computer rating scale, the nokia eye aversion rates around 2.6, where the iPhone comes in around 4.4. Still waiting on how the Blackberry Storm rates, but I suspect it's 4.3 tops.ollyb303 wrote:I have been using this trick with my bog-standard Nokia for years!nebulae wrote:Easy...when walking past the person you don't like in the hallway, just pull out the iPhone as though it has just buzzed you with a new sms/im/email. Then look intently into the phone while you walk on by. No need to avert eyes or any of the other high school nonsense you normally pull...a much more mature way to avoid eye contact. In fact, the more intently you look into the phone, the more legitimate your eye-contact-aversion. Hell, you don't even have to turn the phone on, as we all know how the battery life sux ass, so might as well conserve juice.
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