A more legitimate way to banish the detested Supplications is to find out if there’s a circumcision at the shul that day and invoke that as the pretext. Better yet, seek out a groom, pull him in off the street, the mikveh, another minyon, or whatever else he may be doing at the time, and have him enter the room briefly at the critical juncture. “Nu, nu, hoson, yisgadal” —the voices are heard crying, and that drives the nail in the Supplications coffin.
