Oct 4-texting...sort of

I don't know why I've never really wanted to learn how to text. I guess with email and voice mail I didn't feel the need to have one more way to stay connected. How do you choose which way you're going to go? It seems that life has gotten so complicated with all the choices we're given in any given situation that if I could control it by NOT learning something than it seemed that I was keeping things simple. But, it's not that easy.

I was meeting some girlfriends out one night at a place neither of them had been before, but I had. One girl got completely lost and was sending me text messages unbknownst to me. I was happily sitting at the bar sipping on a glass of zinfandel when she walked in and gave me that look where you know you've pissed her off but you don't know what you did. "I've been texting you for the last 30min. while I was driving around in circles passing the same places over and over...why didn't you answer me back?" Ummm, that's a really good question. And, since she is about 13 years younger than me I lied and said my phone had been acting up. Sorry Tracy, but the truth is I've never learned how to text...until today!! Yeah me!!

So, it's not that I'm gliding through the world of texting with the ease of a 17 year old while at the wheel of her mustang. No, it's more like I had to pull over, park in the Target parking lot and spend 10min trying to send a message back to my sister. It was extremely painful and awkward not to mention embarrassing. My cryptic message was like I didn't know what a preposition was or how to make compound words. My 4th grade english teacher would have been horrified.

I'm not going to give up though. I just signed up with my dentist to get text messages to remind me of my next appointment. That's a decent use for this new form of communication. I'll let you know if I find anymore.