Another reason the rehab story smells fake as fuck. He does need online detox, but that’s not part of any $900 Mexico drug and alcohol program. Ralph’s BS got mixed up with the restrictions of inpatient psych wards and jail.
They would never expect a paying, white foreigner, who doesn’t speak Spanish speaking and has no local friends or family, to give up his only means of communication with the outside world and his pocket translator.
Not having reliable service because he’s busy moving and traveling 2,000 miles to be closer the border, does seem like a viable reason Ralph would be offline for a week.
Or maybe Ralph checked himself into a Mexican psychiatric facility where he could keep his Xanax but not his phone. Ralph is seeking treatment for the BPD he whined to Harry Morris about.