Texturbation

Okay so the heading got your attention. Let me explain: kids in school will try and text in class, holding their hand down by their sides they will try to look down at their phone and look up and make it seem as if they are working while sending and reading texts. I know some kids get away with it, but most are easily spotted as texturbating in class. It is now our term at the school. I know it is crude and maybe even distasteful but it really speaks to what they are doing.

The texting generation is interesting. They would rather crowd around in a group and text each other than talk to one another. They have lost the ability to communicate and read facial and physical cues that tell of anger, agitation, sadness, or happiness. When you get a text you can't tell the emotional nature of whoever sent it, and this is problematic.

Kids read things into texts that they shouldn't. Case in point--one day Kailey was complaining that a friend of hers was really mad at her. I said, "how do you know?" She said, "well she sent me a text and it said BYE!!!" She yelled 'bye' in a nasty tone. Now here is where this gets lost in translation. I said, "let me see the text." The text said "bye" I then asked where she got the nasty tone from, she said she could just tell. "Just tell?" I replied, "You can't just tell. It says 'bye' you are reading into it something that isn't there."

I haven't been real big in texting, but it was part of my prank and I have found it useful occasionally. Mainly when I can't call the person but need to give them info. I might get a text from Jan before I leave work cause she knows I won't pick up. Last night while watching the Jazz game the whole texting experience went to new levels.

I can't tell you how many times I've either gotten a call or called someone during a sporting event. The only problem is that while talking to someone it takes away from the game and makes it hard to watch. There are times I have paused the dvr to carry on a conversation before continuing with the game so I wouldn't be distracted. But that doesn't really work if an exciting play comes up--I can't see it-- and its all whoever is on the phone wants to talk about. So talking while watching sucks. Texting though--hadn't really tried it.

So while watching the game I sent a text to my cousin Matt(last week he told me he gets up to 50 texts during every game from his nephew). He replied quickly. It was late but I thought I would try my friend Reed. He answered as well. For the next few quarters we gave instant analysis of the game and didn't miss anything. It was actually pretty cool. My cousin Mike called at halftime to vent and now everything was really in place. Then I got a text from Janalynn, who was at work. Since I was already rolling with the texts, I just kept at it. Only our conversations were real different.

Earlier Janalynn had purchased a new bra, she texted me her thoughts about it. This was much different from the "nice shot" texts I was getting and giving. The topic of bras led to other things, ya know, yada, yada, yada. And soon I was fully consumed with bras and the Jazz. Then I made a mistake, but not the one you think. I thought I was replying to Matt, but instead it was to Janalynn. All the text said was 'yes!' She replied with "what are you talking about--yes?" I wrote that the Jazz were doing well. She replied, "goodnight, I'm turned off now." Luckily the damage was minimal. It could have been so much worse had Matt or Reed been the recipient of one my replies to Janalynn. Texting during the game was fun, much better than a phone call and I will definitely do it again but next time there will be no third party or hanky panky going on.