The Person Who Invented Text Messaging Needs To Be Flogged

Why do they text me only when I don't or can't talk back??

from JoeUser Forums
Okay, here's the deal. I am in college, and I have a lot of friends. I also have unlimited text messaging, and hours of free time in a day to use it. So why, may I ask, do I only get text messages when I'm in class and I can't respond? And for some reason, they always come during math. That class is the bane of my existence, but I digress. For example, yesterday, I was sitting in class, falling asleep (because of course I don't get the eight hours of sleep a night that I realize I need), and I hear this song start playing. Confused, I become alert, looking around for someone else to turn it off. Why? Because I never get phone calls. Ever. Then I realize that I'm probably the only college student with "Carry On, Wayward Son" as a ring tone and I scurry to turn it off. The professor, of course, doesn't miss a beat in her lecture. A few seconds later, the phone buzzes with a text. Annoyed, I hurry out of class at the end to see what kind of emergency merited someone calling me in the middle of my class. They were from the same person, a fellow student and hall mate.
What did the text say? I'll tell you.
"Want to go to lunch?"
...
WHAT?!?!?!?!?! All of that, for LUNCH!!!
Today, my phone has been completely still all day until about an hour ago, when three people started conversations with me. AT THE SAME TIME. It's like my life never balances. Nothing, sometimes for days, then boom! All at once. Why does this happen, and has it happened to you?
I really need someone to explain this cell phone phenomenon to me, I am so very confused. Thanks!!!
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
Leave the phone in the dorm and then you needn't worry about any of this.
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
I don't bother with those things...in fact, I don't have one. They're so annoying.

~Zoo
Multiplicity - Control multiple PCs using one keyboard and mouse
Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
I've just gotten into text messaging, simply because it's cheaper than calling. Handy to type out "be there in 5" than waste the minutes. Having said that, there are ways to turn off text indicators or mute them. I'm not too quick at it, though.
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
Zoo-

Perhaps a phone will help you with the ladies. After all, how can they ask you for your number if you don't have one?
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top

Perhaps a phone will help you with the ladies. After all, how can they ask you for your number if you don't have one?

Maybe I'm just playing hard to get.

~Zoo

Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
You should put the phone on mute or buzz. And it doesn't matter where you are, once your friends get bored, you are getting text! How about getting IM in the middle of an important work you're showing to your boss? ! How what fun friends are!
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
Kill the phone

You know you want to.
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
I usually have it on mute, but my alarm clock doesn't work if it's on silent, so the ONE time I forget to mute it is the time I get a call. Yargh. And I will NOT kill the phone. Even though I want to. I don't mind getting a text in class, the buzzer isn't that loud, but come on! Lunch? She calls me for lunch? Not even a text, a call? Grr.

Zoo-
Having trouble with the lady-folk? Get a phone. Texting is indeed way less formal than a call or a date. heh heh heh
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
Texting is indeed way less formal than a call or a date.


...but oh so filled with grammatical atrocities. Call me old fashioned...but I don't think I'll be hooking up or breaking up via text message. It just doesn't seem...right, in my opinion.

~Zoo
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
Don't you want to know how grammatically correct your date is before you go?
Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
Don't you want to know how grammatically correct your date is before you go?


Might not be a bad idea.

"Hey before we go out, do you mind doing this English worksheet...just to see where you stand? If you get below a C, I'm going to have to let you go."

~Zoo
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
"Hey before we go out, do you mind doing this English worksheet...just to see where you stand? If you get below a C, I'm going to have to let you go."


That's how I roll, man. You can't hold your own in a conversation about in-depth topics, using relatively coherent arguments and passable grammar . . .

*Bubs voice* DON'T TALK TO ME!
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top
That's how I roll, man. You can't hold your own in a conversation about in-depth topics, using relatively coherent arguments and passable grammar . . .


There's only so much a pretty face can make up for.

~Zoo
Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top
...but oh so filled with grammatical atrocities. Call me old fashioned...but I don't think I'll be hooking up or breaking up via text message. It just doesn't seem...right, in my opinion.


Thank you for being another person under thirty who appreciates proper grammar. I have to spell simple words for my friends because they text so much they can't write papers anymore.
Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top
I have to spell simple words for my friends because they text so much they can't write papers anymore.


I hear that something like that is a major problem in high school these days. All that text messaging warps their fragile, impressionable minds and those annoying traits end up in papers.

Adios, idioma de ingles.

~Zoo



Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top
Adios, idioma de ingles.


Que jamás vuelvas.
Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top
Ach! No Spanish allowed on my blog!! Why, you ask? Because I can't understand what you say! (Yes, I'm just jealous)
You both shall be fired for doing it again.
Reply #18 from JoeUser Forums Top
"There's only so much a pretty face can make up for. "

Does your English worksheet have a scale?

"Okay, you're pretty hot, so that's 10 bonus points..."
Reply #19 from JoeUser Forums Top
Does your English worksheet have a scale?


It's actually quite elaborate.

Cogent sentences: +10

Use of elaborate vocabulary: +20

Not-whiny voice: +10

Hotness (depending on degree on another elaborate scale of 1-10): +10-22

That "I promise I'm not high maintenance" look: +23

Use of full words and proper punctuation in text messaging: +15

Possible Total: 100


It's essential that a girl receive at least a 70 on this most important test if she really wants a chance . . .
Reply #20 from JoeUser Forums Top
I would've given Cogent sentences +20, and elaborate vocabulary a more 'bonus' standard of +10. The non-high-maintenance look would also be worth 31 points, because it's an automatic failure.
Reply #21 from JoeUser Forums Top
The non-high-maintenance look would also be worth 31 points, because it's an automatic failure.


That's why it had the highest score. Maybe I'll knock a couple points off of vocab (but a girl with a hot vocab is most amazingly sexy) and put it onto non-high-maintenance.
Reply #22 from JoeUser Forums Top
Hot vocab is sexy? Yeah, I could hear that. I think it goes with high-maintenance, though. If she has a big vocabulary, she's going to expect to use it with you. And you don't really want talking, do you?
Reply #23 from JoeUser Forums Top
she's going to expect to use it with you. And you don't really want talking, do you?


Not only yes . . . but hell yes.

Reply #24 from JoeUser Forums Top
I suppose that's one form of birth control.
Reply #25 from JoeUser Forums Top
I suppose that's one form of birth control.


And let's be straight - quite effective.