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Originally Posted by BeccaPrice
my kids, bless them, say that txt-speak is for poseurs. Their texts to me are short, but well spelled and even punctuated properly.
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For a long time I refused to text. As the father of three young teens, I actually
called to ask 'Where are you?', 'What are you doing?', 'What time will you be home?', etc.
They would always encourage me to text them instead because actually having to answer and
talk was so ... they had no word, but the word they were looking for must have been profane if the looks on their faces while mentally searching for it was any indication.
We finally reached a compromise. I have one multipurpose text that asks all of these questions. I text ...
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... and that means, 'Where are you?', 'What are you doing?', and 'What time will you be home?'. It worked well for years. So long as I get a response in a reasonable time, I won't call.