Get off my lawn moment

[muck_a_luck]

I fucking hate texting.

I mean, it's OK when my mom does it. That's cool. Or my brother.

But these stupid Craigslist people. I give you my number so you can CALL ME IF THERE IS A PROBLEM. Not so you can send me texts. I don't want to fumble with the keyboard to reply to your dumb-assed remark that you are two miles away. I don't want to respond to your text that you are standing at the front door waiting for me to come down and let you in. Texting for those purposes is RETARDED.

In my opinion.

I think this is actually my first, true, GET THE FUCK OFF MY LAWN YOU ASSHOLE KIDS moment.

*sigh*

Comments

[emeraldsword]

I have been known to text people to say I'm outside their door....this is either because I'm not quite sure I've got the right house or because their bell doesn't work.

Perhaps just don't reply?

[muck_a_luck]

Well. Bell doesn't work, I totally get. If you are not sure you are at my house, I guess I prefer a confirmation phone call to a confirmation text. And I freely admit that perhaps I am just OLD. I know many of my friends' parents can't do e-mail. (Not my parents though (ex-computer programmers). Or even my grandma! She and her hubby went to college and learned to use their computer! It was awesome!) I'm just not phone oriented. It's a phone, I use it for talking to people. Unless I'm using it to read porn. Then it's an e-reader with access to AO3. Hmmm. Perhaps if my porn came over text, I would be more interested in text.

[emeraldsword]

we get onto the other reason then - I am cheap and I often have free texts but never have free minutes so am economising by texting...I am always astonished when my mobile actually rings because no one ever phones me!

I agree that phonecall would be better though - it would save me the awkward of lurking outside a random house waiting to see if someone lets me in without even knowing whether they've read my message.

Heh, for me internet on phone is the step too far - mine does nothing but text and phone, (actually, it has a camera but I can't work out how to get the photos off it...) and the idea of one that goes on the net baffles me!

Also, tumblr. DO NOT UNDERSTAND.