This isn't an
story about a moment long ago when I sent my
first text message. Some 5-Year Anniversary type
entry. Inexplicably this is a story about...
yesterday. Until yesterday at 6:18 PM, I had
never sent a text message.
It's mind-boggling
for me to even write that sentence, let alone what
anyone reading it might think.
The truth of the
matter was simple: 3 or 4 years ago when I got a
cell phone that could text, the first day it
was activated I was slammed with spam. I called
Verizon and said "what the fuck?". They apologized and
said I must have "one of those numbers" and said
I could go back into the store and get a new number or
block texting. I blocked texting 'cause not only did I
never use it, I wasn't friends with any 12 year
old girls <insert joke here>, so no one I knew
used it...
...in 2009
however? I'm the most annoying person on the planet.
'Cause apparently no one talks on their fucking
phones anymore in favor of carpal tunnel practice. I
really don't get it. It really annoys me, and I had to
be dragged kicking and screaming into this - but it
was time. I couldn't afford to miss any more messages
and the allure of having access to the internet in my
pocket at any moment was just too much. So yesterday I
upgraded to the LG EnV Touch and my father got the
honor:
Thanks to years of
gaming, texting with thumbs is kind of a breeze. For
all the phone nerds out there, I went back and forth
between a few. Too much bad press on the storm and I
just couldn't see a good reason to pay so much more
monthly for the Blackberry. This phone was the highest
rated phone Verizon sold... so there ya go. I also
really like the keyboard on the flip phones. My
fingers are pretty big, so texting on a normal phone
or a blackberry would just make me nuts. And on my
Razr? Fahgeddaboutit. Never even attempted it. Duh,
you already knew that didn't you.
:-)
It does feel
slightly ridiculous to make an entry out of this
considering how monumental the entries were last
month, but it's just such a headshaker that someone as
connected to technology as me could have put it off
this long. I honestly wanted to see if I could
make it to 2010... but the peer pressure just became
too much. I will promise you this however... if we are
eating dinner together - that bitch won't come out. If
there's one thing I've learned in the past few years
NOT having texting or email on my phone, it's that
there is nothing more annoying on the planet than
someone constantly checking their phone during a meal.
If it's a phone CALL? I can understand seeing if it's
an emergency, etc. and putting it back down - but
reading every text or email you may get during that
hour? You're simply not that important. You just
aren't. 'Cause take it from me... the important
people? NEVER fuckin' respond to your emails. LOL.
They don't give a fuck. They read them whenever the
hell they feel like it - and truth be told, have
people to do THAT. So you want to act important? Don't
even flinch when you hear the ding on your
phone...
...'cause they'll
wait. And thank you for the honor of
waiting.
