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Xerxys · 06-25-2009, 07:01 AM

What happened was, I initially started like you. "Busy? Need to talk." Was a standard template. Then I got a job. You cannot answer the phone at work but you can text incognito.

Then the girls came in hordes. I get chain texts in the masses. You know the ones saying that a little girl will die if she doesn't have heart surgery and phone companies agreed to donate 50 cents each time the text is sent around so forward it to everyone ... what I do is I have to come up with a clever response for it. The more responses I send the more replies I get. The more replies I get the more likely I am to receive the SAME BLOODY TEXT MESSAGE AGAIN!!

I dug myself in this hole and I might just get myself out of it soon. Besides, every one of my friends work and I can't really call them during the day.

Also, I don't like talking on phone. To be honest, I prefer having things written down for people. I find that people will follow written instructions better. Phone conversations would pave way for more unnecessary questions and lately I have been telling people what to do. When they don't do it right I get pissed. Most of my instructional text messages start with "Do this and only this ... " that way they don't ask me "why this and not this instead ... " of which most of the time I don't have an answer, I just need the fucker to follow simple rules!! Text messages are good for addresses and lists.

I like text messages. They calm my nerves.

06-25-2009, 07:01 AM	#3 (permalink)
Xerxys Junkie Location: My head.	What happened was, I initially started like you. "Busy? Need to talk." Was a standard template. Then I got a job. You cannot answer the phone at work but you can text incognito. Then the girls came in hordes. I get chain texts in the masses. You know the ones saying that a little girl will die if she doesn't have heart surgery and phone companies agreed to donate 50 cents each time the text is sent around so forward it to everyone ... what I do is I have to come up with a clever response for it. The more responses I send the more replies I get. The more replies I get the more likely I am to receive the SAME BLOODY TEXT MESSAGE AGAIN!! I dug myself in this hole and I might just get myself out of it soon. Besides, every one of my friends work and I can't really call them during the day. Also, I don't like talking on phone. To be honest, I prefer having things written down for people. I find that people will follow written instructions better. Phone conversations would pave way for more unnecessary questions and lately I have been telling people what to do. When they don't do it right I get pissed. Most of my instructional text messages start with "Do this and only this ... " that way they don't ask me "why this and not this instead ... " of which most of the time I don't have an answer, I just need the fucker to follow simple rules!! Text messages are good for addresses and lists. I like text messages. They calm my nerves.