I felt it safer to tiptoe gently around his fragile ego, so I responded simply by saying I am not using my phone unless it's an emergency and thanks for respecting my need for silence and peace at this time. That way hopefully he won't take it as a personal attack. And I re-muted him immediately after sending so that if he does flip out I at least won't be notified about it.
11:56 a.m. - 2020-09-21