So at the moment my girlfriend (who is incredibly attractive and intelligent) is working on her dissertation which has something to do with text speak. Anyway, this got me thinking about texting and if texting is evil or not.
A couple of years ago I had been out to the cinema with my friend. My mum being the incredibly caring person she is, had text me asking where I was. I was driving at the time and i quickly text back… which I absolutely disapprove of by the way. In my haste and with lack of checking, I tried to text back “I’m coming home now”, but anyone who uses predictive text will know that home initially types out as a very different word. So my phone… the prankster, made me text my mother with the message “I’m coming good now”… which when you have been on what is essentially a date with a male friend is wrong on so many levels.
Today I want to know if anyone else has had any unfortunate texting or e-mailing accidents, maybe with messages going to the wrong people or another coming text.
Let me know you sexual animals.
Note to self. You are a proper lightweight, so don’t ever think you can go out drinking from 5pm to 2am ever again… even if it is St Patrick’s Day.
March 19th, 2007 at 9:39 am
Yes.
One point during my existence I started seeing this girl called Emily, or as she rather be known, “Eddie”. I’ll be honest, I was going through a dry patch, so when she said “oh, here is my number, text me!”, I thought “Hmmmm….no harm in trying.”
Anyway, long story short her number was 1 digit too long. So I did what any desperate man’d do - send text messages to 10 numbers, each one omitting one digit. The text message read like this:-
“Hi Eddie it’s Rhys. It was nice meeting you last night, if you fancy meeting up again.”
I must’ve got a couple of Nazi Rednecks with my texting as two text came back calling me a “bum boy” and “faggot” and saying that I “should keep away from them”.
Anyway, one was Eddie. We met up. It was a disaster.
March 19th, 2007 at 11:28 am
Unless your name is Patrick of course.. hehe who am I kidding I was in bed not long after midnight.
I have a terrible habit of texting the person I’m having a good old fashioned bitch about. A while back I was with some mates and another mate who was going to ask if he could come along to this party we were going to… He wasn’t impressed when he got a text from me saying;
“Say no - tell him there is a strict list”
I kinda did the “hahah… just joking!” but it didn’t go down too well.. After a massive thing with my mum once I was texting her instead of my mate saying;
“Don’t worry, I’ve got her wrapped around my little finger”
I didn’t go home that night.. hehe, “It was another friend on the bus screwing around Mum as if I’d say something like that!”
I’m a tool.
March 19th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
I’m ok with texts it’s emails I screw up on!
My friend uses me as an agony aunt and when he had this crush on a girl for about a year without doing anything he sent me an email trail asking me if i thought she was into him or not.
I mistakingly hit reply but to her email address saying - What a terrible surname she has and then wrote hmmm I’m not sure if she does like you hun - but she’s a right plank if she doesn’t…
Arse!