I'm awake at (looks at clock... sheesh) 3:18. And because I'm awake, let me just leave this right here: Group text messages must--MUST--become a thing of the past. Currently sitting on my phone I have 17 unread text messages.
It isn't that I'm anti-people. Okay, maybe I'm turning into that cranky shut-in. Nor am I anti-text message. But around here it isn't just a group text message.
For example:
If one person sends out a note to 16 folks with, "Want to see Terror on the Oriental Trading Post at 6:30 tonight?"
Eight will respond with some version of "no."
Three will say "yes."
Of those eleven, ten will add some sort of emoji to the message of EVERY ONE OF THOSE THREE WHO SAID YES.
And two will change the subject to everything from "Anyone have a cure for an ingrown toenail?" to "What's going in the old K-mart building in Wake Village?"
At which point, the other thirteen will all respond to the poor woman with the sore tootsies or the one who made the innocent inquiry about the open big-box in Wake Village. There will be prayers and lots of Texarkana history provided to the entire thread.
Of course, ALL of those responses must then have some sort of emoji.
The fifteenth person will then ask, "what movie? what time?" And fourteen other people will respond to that note, which will also include more emojis--which continues to blow up the phones.
The sixteenth person finds the entire ordeal overwhelming and keeps her phone off. She knows if she spends all her time looking at text messages she will never get her next chapter finished. Nor did she really want to go out in the cold weather to watch a movie. So, win-win.
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