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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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Another option would be to just tell them all day long how great your apple device is and soon they will avoid u. A very common technique used by many apple users

nice!

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 have been using this trick with my bog-standard Nokia for years!

And to get out of meetings (etc...) download from the App Store "Fake-A-Call" (free).

Did you post this topic using your iphone in order to avoid somebody you don't like?

ollyb303 wrote:

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.

More useful tips coming soon to a totally unmoderated music forum near you.

I have been using this trick with my bog-standard Nokia for years!

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.

beats me wrote:Did you post this topic using your iphone in order to avoid somebody you don't like?

I'm currently reading a Timur-related post on my iPhone in order to avoid responding to you.

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.

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.

yes, but both require a level of response from you....my methods cost you nothing.

diego vega wrote:And to get out of meetings (etc...) download from the App Store "Fake-A-Call" (free).

brilliant!

now you're talkin'!

nebulae wrote:

ollyb303 wrote:

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.

More useful tips coming soon to a totally unmoderated music forum near you.

I have been using this trick with my bog-standard Nokia for years!

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.

LOL. At least if my phone is turned off, there's a much smaller screen area to give me away

I like to busk my way down the hallway playing a soulful ditty with Ocarina - no contact happenin!

Got into Glasto for free a while back by faking a very loud mobile phone agrument whilst walking thru the gate.

The security guard just waved me on as I fumbled for my arm band and pass not wanting to get involved.

^ hahah, brilliant