I would really like to thank whoever invented texting. Now we can communicate with people all over the
world without the people in our vicinity overhearing, reacting, being appalled or getting offended. Nowadays whenever in public, at work, or at dinner with the in-laws we can politely smile and nod and have verbal conversations while we’re engaged in text conversations that are bizarre or naughty or just totally irrelevant to anything that’s going on around us. Having incoming texts from multiple people adds randomness and variety to our daily lives and we all know that ‘variety is the spice of life’.

Imagine this phone conversation before texting was created:

  Text participant 1: In a Dr. office waiting room
  Text participant 2: In check out line at Publix Supermarket.

Participant 1: Lady next to me is eating cheerios out of a zip lock bag by the handfuls and keeps spilling them everywhere
Participant 2: Sure she’s not a BIG BABY?
Participant 1: Well now she’s cleaning herself w/a babywipe so you might be right.
Participant 2: U can’t make this sh*t up! Nobody would believe it was even possible!
Participant 1: Now she’s telling me why she has cheerios in her purse…do I
f*cking care?
Participant 2: So why does she? Diabetic? Gorger? hoarder? Giant Baby!? TELLLLL MEEE!
Participant 1: She said she is trying to stay healthy
Participant 2: BORING. I guess she’s got a point about being healthy but why eat gobs that you can’t hold in your hand and make a mess?! Go on ask her….enquiring minds wanna know
Participant 1: Can’t I’m in the room now waiting for the doc.
Participant 2: Fine…Sonovabitch! This lady in front of me has 52 thousand coupons in the EXPRESS lane! And it looks like she’s gonna write a monkey fluffin’ CHECK! L8R, enjoy the doc Hott Stuff

See! This was an actual text conversation.  Notice that at the beginning of this excerpt there’s no mention to each other about where they are or what they’re doing. With some people there’s just a textual running commentary and we don’t even know where they’re at. Sometimes they make references to their surroundings that they couldn’t make during a verbal conversation. I think I should create a book titled “Imagine These Texts Aloud”