Fuck texting.

Hi, I'm Gators, and I hate texting.

I FUCKING HATE TEXTING!!!

I remember years ago sitting the the Wal*Mart break room, watching people write texts on their cellular telephones, thinking how stupid this is.  This was before having some form of a full keyboard on a phone was typical, people were using their number pads, with 3 letters to each key, to type out sentences.  I didn't get it, why in the hell would someone go through all that shit to type out a sentence that could be spoken so quickly, on a device that has the capability of making a phone call to the phone you are writing the text to?  You got something to say to someone, make the call and say it, don't fiddle with your damn number pad trying to type out words.  God, fucking idiots.

But, whatever, if people want to be idiots, that's their god given right.

Then I remember one Easter sitting around at a family gathering, my sibblings in different corners of the room.  Every now and then a rumble came from their pocket, they'd take out a phone, press some buttons, and put the thing back in their pocket.  WTF?  Oh....we're just texting our friends.  Um, HELLO!  You're holding a phone, just call them. 

But, once again, whatever, if people want to do these stupid things that make no sense to me, whatever, it's not like it effects me.

But, somehow my siblings have got my dad doing it now.  And the work issued phone I used has texting abilities, and I can't turn it off.  I wish you had to opt in to texting.  Instead, it's that you have to opt in to a plan, otherwise you just get charged a buttload for them.  There seems to be no opting out.  It would be nice to be able to say, "well, I'd love to be able to get texts from you, but this darn phone.....doesn't do texting.....oh well, just give me a call if you have anything to say, or send an email"  But NOOOOOOOOOOOOO, I have this device that accepts texts in my pocket now.

But, whatever, so the occasional text from Dad hasn't been that unmanageable, a quick ok, or a "I'm good tnx, u?", or if it's something I need to say in more than a quick line I can just call and go, well, I figured I'd just call.

But then you start getting texts about things that, maybe texting wasn't meant for, and then I have to figure out how to deal with that, using a medium I hate to begin with.

So, today I get a text from my dad that my step mother's surgery has just finished and she's in recovery and he's going in to see her soon.



What do I text back to that?


Do I ignore it?  I mean, it seems like the kind of thing that warrants a reply.

Do I type a quick text back?  This seems like something that requires more than a "k, tnx, bye"

Do I call?  I mean, he's about to go in to see her, perhaps now isn't a good time for him to be occupied on the phone.

So now I'm stuck trying to figure out, what to say, which I would struggle with enough just talking, but in a format that I'm completely uncomfortable with, and want to keep the message short since I can't stand the two thumbed method of typing.

Damn you, brother and sisters, you got our dad texting, and now I have to deal with that.

Arrrgggghhhhh.....

Well, after bitching about it enough, Kristen said "oh here, give me the damn phone, I'll text back"


Problem solved.


I fucking hate texting.