My little cousin/maid of honor/soror/ is in med school (I just wanted to say that- because I’m so proud of her) in a city where black folks are a bit scarce. She was feeling a bit blue about the lack of men who appreciated a girl with melanin. She went to a dinner one evening and met a cutie who seemed to know what to do.
Long story-short, this fool keeps texting her and she has told him to stop because she doesn’t pay for the service. She told him to contact her after 7 p.m. and only by calling. He is costing her money. I told her to send him a bill.
It made me reminisce on the time a lawyer kept faxing me huge amounts of paper. One night he sent over 25 pages and I had to unplug the fax because the stuff kept coming. I called him and left a very heated message telling him to stop that. We did not have an agreement to fax things. When I saw him the next day I made him write me a check for $10 for wasting my paper and ink.
Sometimes people just need a bill. Texting, faxing and iming -even blogging- and much of this technology is supposed to be a convenience - not a way to eliminate communication. People are just losing their grip. Was the purpose of technology to make an already impersonal world even more impersonale?
ROTFLOL! I like that and I agree…
Comment by heartdrops — November 10, 2007 @ 1:54 pm
I just had to tell my best friend yesterday to stop texting me. It annoys me, and I’m not paying for a text message package for one person to send me messages when they can just call me.
Comment by Sistah Ant — November 12, 2007 @ 11:46 am
I teeter on the technology making communication impersonale, however, SMS is a form of communication. Sending a bill is quite classic, so I may have to remember to use it. I have a great text msg. pkg, plus the husband and no longer have a land line in our home. We amped our minutes so we wouldn’t be charged for overage and this arrangement is working out fine. No more side-eye when the cell phone bill comes. WE actually are under in our minutes (plus we have unlimited text messaging). Texting is my favorite pasttime. =>
Comment by Pro — November 13, 2007 @ 3:02 pm
You may remember my own battle of wills where text messaging is concerned? lol I have completely taken it off of my phone. Blocked it. You are right, this technology thing is making the world even more impersonal.
Comment by Sugar — November 14, 2007 @ 10:34 am
Texting is my pet peeve. I tell people, in my own rules for texting etiquette, if it takes more than 3 short texts back and forth, you need to just call me. LOL!
Comment by Brownngirl — November 15, 2007 @ 1:50 pm