Textiquette

I got my first cell phone in high school. It was actually a family cell phone that my mother, sister, and I passed around depending on who needed it most. Eventually we all got our own cell phones including my little sister. Now, it’s not uncommon to see even elementary schoolers with the things pressed to their ears, or going through town texting their friends.

However, this means that our texting manners are a large portion of how people perceive us.

Mr. Excess Baggage himself was clearly not getting the message that my lack of messaging was supposed to be sending. His unrequited texting had been going on for several days, at 10:30 every night on the dot. And the joy of texting is that with a mere push of a button he was gone, no effort on my part, I could go on like this for months.

And then he pushed the wrong button. At 5:30 a.m. on a Saturday he texted me.  I do not wake up at 5:30 during the week, let alone on Saturdays.  And I refuse to be awoken by a text from someone who I don’t have any desire to talk to, EVER!  This is not the way to woo me.  So, I let him have it.  I put on my Mean Librarian pants and told him just how rude he was being and that not only did I not want to talk to him at 5:30 (or text him as the case may be) but I did not want to talk (or text) him EVER!

Certainly, as children of the digital area we will teach our children that such behavior is inexplicable, but apparently crack of dawn texting was not something on his mother’s list of etiquette items to pass on to her offspring.

For further reading, please see this awesome post that not only made me laugh… but was right on.  Perhaps I should text it to Mr. Excess Baggage himself.