For absolutely no particular reason, which is why I do most things, I decided to send my first text message today. I had made tuna to have tuna sandwiches for dinner. My daughter just started a new job that requires 9 weeks of (8 hours a day) training. She loves my tuna. I figured since she is always reading text messages, it would be the easiest way to get her attention when she had a break or was finished for the day.
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It didn't start out well. I found the text message part on my cell phone easily enough but I couldn't quite understand the prompts. Also because my battery was low I decided to do this standing at the bar where I keep my phone plugged in. So I'm standing there pushing button after button trying to figure out what to do. After about 15 minutes, I think I've got it figured out. The only thing is, I don't know how to make spaces between words. So I typed: Madetunawantsome? I was actually pretty proud of myself for finding the question mark. Finally, I pressed the send button. My house phone rang immediately. I thought that was odd. Then I answered and a female computer voice said something like, "A text message has been sent to this land line. Would you like to hear it?" So I pressed # or whatever it told me to do and this female computer voice said "mad-et-oohna-want-some." I laughed and laughed. It sounded like an ancient curse (I've been watching a lot of "Buffy" lately). But I was very frustrated.
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After trying and trying to figure out how to change the phone number for the message, I decided to try a different approach. Instead of going straight to the texting part, I went to my phone contacts section of the phone. I scrolled down to my daughter's name, found a text option, typed out: Madetunawantsome? again and then hit "send." A screen came up and said message sent to ########. I can't put the actual number, but I had sent it to my daughter's home phone!!! At this point, I was sweating and flustered, so I went for a fresh beer and a smoke.
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I had probably wasted about 40 minutes of my life by this point. I came back in, sat on the floor, took some deep breaths and tried again. I never did find out how to make a space, but I found the period button. So after making sure I had Kate's cell phone number, I typed in: Made.Tune.Want.Some? It was enough. She got the message. A short while later, I got the message: Yes.
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When my daughter arrived I told her the whole story, which she thought was funny. She said, "It's like you were sending a telegram. I'm surprised you didn't put 'stop' between the words." Yeah, here's my next one:
Im.Stupid.Stop.Sending.Text.Messages.Stop
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Um, so was the tuna good?
And two words: Owner's manual.
Not that i would ever use the owner's manual myself...
Jazz,
My tuna is always good!
There's an owner's manual?
What no ham with something?
It takes a while to figure out how to use text messages. It's all shorthand. I sent my brother a text message and he phoned me back, "Please don't send me text messages, I can't be bothered figuring out to reply. You live right across the street from me, so just walk over and talk to me."
That's so funny! I can imagine your brother's astonishment. :)
Oh, and we are having ham and something else later this week.
I use my cellphone for phoning (and even then I have to think about it). For the rest, I'm sorry, I wouldn't even try.
So, what makes your tuna unique?
Ian
Ian,
Yeah, it's not worth an hour of your life to send a 4 word text message. As for my tuna, my ingredients are not special at all: some mayo, chopped boiled eggs, salt and pepper, onion powder and ground celery seed. I think the secret is in the texture. I put the tuna in a bowl and go at it with a plastic spatula until most of the fibers are separated and small. It ends up with a very smooth and consistent texture as opposed to having random lumps of stuff. We all love it.
Awww!
So sweet and funny.
(I LOVE tuna sandwichs!)
Bwaaahaaahaaa! I get frustrated with texting because I type so much faster with all ten of my fingers than I do with one or two. Even with that word recognition feature turned on.
What's even funnier is, I didn't know you could text a landline. LOL
Tai,
Yeah, you're young. I bet you were rolling your eyes as you read this. (I put mayo on the bread then a heaping pile of iceberg lettuce then about an inch of tuna - it's a whole meal!)
Jeanette,
You should send yourself one with no spaces and see what your ancient curse sounds like.
You're one up on me. Maybe two up. I don't have a cellphone and text-messaging is beyond me.
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