Tirsesome tropes: Talking through the dial tone

Please note: The term "trope" is used very loosely in this periodic series. 

So I saw Roofman on Wednesday night, and all I have to say is "Why do movie characters always talk through the dial tone?"

(Actually I might have a second Roofman post, but tomorrow's Halloween so it will have to wait until the weekend.)

So what I mean is, this old trope, which appeared again in Roofman:

A character gets hung up on. We know this because we, the audience, can hear the dial tone on the other end. 

But apparently this character can't hear it, because the character keeps saying "Hello? [Name]? HELLO??"

So there are two choices here of what the character thinks is going to happen:

1) The dial tone exists simultaneously with a connected phone line. If the character keeps asking for someone on the other end to respond, just desperately enough, maybe a voice will emerge from behind the dial tone to continue the conversation.

2) The line has actually been disconnected, but by repeating the other conversant's name urgently, the line will magically reconnect.

I guess it's too dramatically flat to have a character just immediately give up when he/she hears the dial tone. The realistic sequence of events would be just to look a little bit embarrassed or frustrated and hang up the phone. 

But here are a few realistic alternatives to that:

1) Look at the reliever in disbelief. It won't rejuvenate the call, but it will effectively express the character's disbelief that it has come to this, being hung up on by the person on the other end, this person who was once so close to them.

2) Scream "Fuck!" and hang up the phone violently.

3) Scream "Fuck!" and smash the receiver against the phone chassis repeatedly until that cap that screws on the mouthpiece comes flying off.

4) Hang up quickly but efficiently in order to dig into your pockets for more coins in order to call them back.

Though I suppose, sometimes in moments of high stress, we can resort to the dumbest option possible: continuing to speak into a dead phone in the vain hope that you've mistaken the dial tone for a train passing by the other person's house, or a laser ray beaming them into an alien spaceship.