Oh The Glory of the Technology Age!

I LOVE text messaging. I work in an industry that requires me to spend easily 80% of my day on the phone, so the thought of having to be further glued to the phone in order to get a short message to a friend or loved one is sometimes flat out exhausting for me.

Low and behold, the telecommunication gods graciously bestowed upon us the gift of Text Messaging. It's short, it's sweet, it's inconspicuously non-commital. But beware, it CAN sometimes be dangerous as well.

Oh Yes, I said dangerous. I learned today just how dangerous it could be. Here's how things went down:

I send a text this morning stating "Hi Sweetie! Got plans 2nite? I'd love 2 spend sme time w u and I cd really use ur help on something...

Cl me 2day if u hve tme." (Notice the "text" lingo I've mastered so

well)

Now before I finish, and in my defense, it was 7:30 am and I hadn't had

any coffee yet. With that said I proceeded to select my recipient for

this message and hit send. No sooner had I sent this message out

did it occur to me that my autopilot had kicked in and I sent it to the

one person I text most-- Tim. Thinking nothing of it, I quickly sent him

another text telling him that, "Sorry that message wasn't meant for

you. Love ya babe!" And then I sent the text to the intended person-

my friend DeeLyn.

Say it however you want to say it: Doooh ( Homer style) or Dee Dee

Dee (Mencia style). Just say it--what a moron I am!

I soon get a call--of course--from Tim wondering just who it was that the text was meant for and just who was I calling sweetie. He did this of course in his usually jovial "joking" manner, but trust me, I "got it."

So, word to the wise. If you are like me and a. get up way too early in the am or b. haven't yet truly mastered text messaging, check the recipient before hitting send.