Chronic text messagers - is it really that important?
I took a short weekend trip to see the Broadway play Deuce starring Angela Lansbury before it closed on Sunday. The play was great and there is just something magical about seeing a legend like Angela Lansbury doing live theater. The only not so great part of the play was the woman sitting beside me that could not stop text messaging. I could not help but wonder what was so important that she could not sit for 100 minutes and watch a play without text messaging someone.
I have issues with text messaging.
I think it’s silly. For starters, I just do not get it. I mean, why would someone rather text message someone else instead of actually talk to them? It’s impersonal. Sometimes I think the appeal of text messaging is that it makes you look important, needed and popular. I mean, hey, if you’re eating dinner and have to stop to take a text message you must be pretty important. And popular too. I mean, geesh, you can’t even eat a hot meal for people needing you and wanting to send you little oddly spelled messages.
I think it’s rude too. If I haven’t seen you in 6 months and we are meeting up for dinner to catch up then I do not want to see you checking your phone and texting someone every few minutes. It cannot be that important. If I am in line at the grocery store and you are supposed to be ringing up my items then do not pull out your phone to send a text message in the middle of weighing my produce. And it happens everywhere! It’s almost like I cannot pay for anything these days without having some kid too busy text messaging to take my money. The grocery store. Target. The movie theater. The department store. The gas station.
Yesterday I went to the movies and someone sitting in front of me was text messaging throughout the movie. That’s swell. Every time they did it their phone illuminated the area.
Last week my sister in law got in a car accident because she was texting while driving. The engine of her car ended up in the passenger seat. I really hope that was an important message.
I wonder if teachers have problems with kids texting during class?
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