mehmet , meanwhile , was feigning stomach illness to try and leave early , which he regularly did on friday afternoons , and george had also spent the entire day toiling over the almost literally incredible news that kumiko had yet to acquire a mobile phone that worked in this country , so he had no way of calling or texting her , or obsessing over calling or texting her , or obsessing over not calling or texting her and had reached a point of near-implosion about having nothing but her word that he 'd ever see her again .