Awkward Situation? Let Mobile Faker Get You Out Of It

“I need you to call my phone in twenty minutes,” my friend said, putting things in her pocketbook and looking out the door like the Law and Order people were standing outside. “Just start talking. Don’t get freaked out if I don’t make sense.”

By Jess

“What’s going on?” I asked, worried I knew someone in the witness protection program.

“I’m going out to lunch with this girl…and she might hate me. I’m not sure yet, but just in case she’s as crazy as I remember…I need your phone call to help me leave.”

Who hasn’t used a fake phone call to get out of an uncomfortable situation? Sprint felt your pain—and the annoyance from your friends every time you begged them for help—and has launched Mobile Faker.

This application can not only be programmed to call you in the middle of a hideous date, it also prompts you to say things matching certain previously entered criteria (so you won’t stumble in the middle of a lie). Meeting a guy you’re not sure about? Program your phone to give you a ring from that long lost “boyfriend” or “acquaintance” detailing an emergency.

Thanks to Sprint, we’ve all become a lot more agile in escaping awkward situations…and a lot more suspicious.