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Originally Posted by Rob Lister
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.
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I used the T1. Was faster than translating to text
. Now i have a smartphone, works better
