Texting does have a purpose sometimes

Rick has a union meeting today after work. He's the financial secretary, so he has to give a monthly report. He worked on his report last night, got it printed out and stuck it in his file. Well, he left for work this morning and, as soon as he left, I saw the folder on the table; he had forgotten it. So I texted him right away, "Union folder on table!" But I knew that if it was only one text, he'd never bother to stop the truck, but would just check his phone when he got to work. Too late to come back home for the folder. So it went like this:

Rick

Union

Folder

Is at

Home. 

Warning!

Warning!

Turn

Truck 

Around

NOW

Rick

Rick

Rick

He must have gotten 12 texts from me....all one word texts. So when his phone started "Droid" "Droid" "Droid" "Droid" "Droid" Droiding off the truck seat, he knew something was up. Pulled over, saw the texts, thought "Oh crap!" and turned the truck around. Till he got back up the driveway, I was standing at the front door with his folder in my hand. He gave me a sheepish grin, said, "Thanks for saving my butt" and left again.

Actually, I wasn't saving his butt. I was saving my own. I could see it......I would have had to bring the folder with me to work and then take it up to him over our lunch break. And I didn't want to have to do that.

I love the man dearly, but he'd forget his head sometimes.   And you do what you have to do!

:lol3::lol3::lol3: Good thinking!

That wouldn't work around here. I periodically check DH's cell phone and delete all the text messages he never even looked at. At least he checks his email every few weeks.

I'd be lost without my phone and texting.    Being able to get my e-mails from the office on my phone helps as well, because sometimes l need an answer to something but l finish everyday at 2.p.m

Texting.  It's a blessing and a curse.

My daughter is a sophomore in college. Has a cell phone, but we don't have a text plan.  Instead, we have (well had) a text app that used data to send texts to each other.  The girls got iPhones for Christmas, and I darksided and got an iPhone last week. My android device quit charging.  I have never heard so much from my college student LOL.  Now that I have iMessage- I've heard from her almost daily for the last week   Yes it's texts- not actual phone calls but it's better than nothing.  The youngest mostly texts me too- though yesterday she called me on the bus wanting to know what we were eating and when.    And the girls text each other all the time- it's actually kind of nice. 

I don't like the fact that you can't read body signals.  Or hear a tone, like you can over the phone.  But that's how today's generation is communicating, and if I want to hear from my kids I guess I have to embrace it. 

It drives my mom and inlaws nuts.  They say "Well- K has a phone, and I call her but she never answers". "Why doesn't she (or her sister) call me?"  And I try to explain texting but none of them want to hear it.  The inlaws have cell phones but both of them have flip phones.  Bil insisted on mom getting an iPhone a couple of years ago- and she can't use half the "stuff" that's on it, she doesn't understand how to (and it's not like people haven't tried to explain it to her).

Good thinking Winchester!

Cheryl

I love texting.  I don't go crazy.  It's just a few people I talk with regularly that way.  I used to text my mother from the bathroom if I was having a bad day at work.  She would do the same.  It helped so much.  Now I'm home and I still text her if I'm having a bad day.   She usually calls me after she gets off work anyway; but the mid day texts are nice.  Sometimes I have difficulties hearing details on the phone.  So some things are just better for me in a text.  Plus I can save it to look at later. 

My Dad finally got the hang of texting.  He used to reply to every text with "yes."  Whether it made any sense or not.    His girlfriend is a bit younger than him and much more tech savvy so I bet that helped.   The strange thing to me is that he's so mechanically minded I wouldn't have expected him not to "get" texting right off like that.

I text, but not nearly as often as my friends and colleagues (at least I'm a little better than DH- he rarely even checks his phone!). When I have to send lengthy weekly emails to the other professors about teaching plans and the like, I have to text them to check their emails because they text and don't check their emails..  Nevertheless, both make life much more convenient IMO.  

I text a little here and there.  I guess it's a generational thing, I see younger people glued to their phones.  I really don't get that.

I text my husband during the day if I think of something I need to tell him. He has been spending a lot of time in meetings, so calling him would be impossible.