Texting is the newest, CHEAPEST, way to entertain yourself!
If texting were a girl, i'd be in deep trouble ;) There's no way i'd remain faithful! haha...Seriously, if you ever find yourself bored and/or looking for a CHEAP way to entertain yourself, whip out that cell phone of yours and start texting!Text old friends, new friends, lost friends, ex's, co-workers, you name it. If they know you, they'd *hopefully* be glad to hear from you!
That is exactly what i did on the train ride home last night. I felt sick, didn't have any good reading material, and was outright plain bored. So, as i've done many a times in the past, I composed a sexy text message (as shown above) that was sure to get some responses (as shown below), and i sent that bad boy all over the country. It felt great just knowing i pro-actively touched base with them all!
Texting is where it's at, i'm telling you. The most efficient use of your time!
I sent out a total of 19 initial messages (10 at a time by adding them to the contact list), and probably a good 50 in total! And within minutes i got at least 15 or so back :) Plus, it didn't cost me a dime as i have a text plan w/ Verizon Wireless that never gets filled anyways. And even if i i didn't, it would have only cost a few bucks anyways - much cheaper than postage, or my precious time in front of a computer....okay, well that was lie, but you get the point.
And the funniest part? I haven't talked to some of these fools in 3-4 years! haha...oh man, check out some of these responses i got back:
- "still on my journey" (what journey?)
- "Hi Friend! Right now I'm totally lost and annoyed hahah"
- "J??????????" (i swapped out my real name..almost slipped!)
- "Just started nursing school. Baby just turned 2! Congrats on the wedding!!! Hope all is well!" (wow, didn't see that coming!)
- "Love ur random texts. Nothing much. Stay at home mommy and watching a lot of silly spongebob! She is almost 2! Wat new with u?" (def. saw that one coming ;) )
- "Obx vacay sat to sat! Come down!"
- "Got a tatoo last week...! How have u been?" (would have NEVER guessed)
- and, my favorite response so far: "Well, i got engaged, moved to houston, found out he was very unfaithful, moved back, did a cross country road rally, started my new career. :) lots! haha" (sad, yes, but what a story! i love it)
So do with this what you will, but promise me one thing: IF you give this a shot sometime soon, promise to post the hilarious/interesting responses you get back :) I can use all the free entertainment i can.
Labels: randomness 3000
posted by J. Money at
7:36 AM
8 Comments:
lol this is too funny. I do this all the time with acquaintances and former coworkers that I'd feel weird talking on the phone for longer than 5-10 min. Helps keep in touch and really txt is the way to go now. I have unlimited txt plan with verizon so I end up sending over 1000 a month. Love it!
That's what's up DeMo :) Texting is the best thing to happen since Britney Spears! haha.... wow, that was lame.
That is pretty sweet. Glad to hear that you got better responses than 'not much. what about you?'.
This is pretty bad, but when I was young free and single I would come home from the pub and send a group text to all the girls on my phone saying something along the lines of, "I think I'm falling in love with you".
You'd be amazed by the positive response I'd get - sometimes from old flames I hadn't talked to in months!
blake - yeah, that's the worst...and i actually expected to get that, but i only got 1 or 2! This was by far the best turn out of responses i've gotten. and probably because there were many years spread out with a few of these guys.
uncommon advice - two words: you rock! yes it's probably a bit false, but at least it's keeping in touch :) looking forward to checking out your blog bro.
HAHA! I usually just send texts to people that I've kept in touch with...maybe I'll start sending them to the people that I haven't spoken to recently.
hey j,
i agree about the saving precious time thing. or at least, making use of what dead time comes up, eh? i do this too when i'm bored as heck waiting in line somewhere, or for someone, having forgotten my latest crochet project (hee hee) or book to read. it's nice having unlimited text messaging with verizon.
i haven't been getting back anything too exciting though. i think it confuses my friends sometimes though, as last night one pal asked if something was wrong with my e-mail account?!
@uncommon
so.. are you gonna share with us some of those 'positive responses' ?
omg that is too funny. yeah i sometimes get a "who is this?" or a "WOW, i thought you were long gone" kinda message back, but it's all good - i just promptly remind them i'm alive and try and pry some goodies out of them ;)
in fact, since i originally posted this i've now been in txt/picture msg contact w/ my sister every single day now! this is huge considering we'd call each other once a year or so.
all hail text!
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