Anyone who enjoys the convenience of text messaging is also, sometimes painfully, aware that if you don't proofread your messages, you can say things you don't intend to say (especially if you use a 'predictive text' setting.
A few common words you gotta look out for: home/good, me/of, he/if.
If you are not paying attention, your text: "call me when you get home" could read 'call of when you get good'.
"He told me he was home" could be 'if told of if was good'
"Get your home work done" could be 'get your good work done'
You get the point...
So yesterday I received a text message from one of my friends who was asking me to find her son on the playground "... He you get this can you send ______ to the office." I chuckled at the 'he' instead of 'if' and responded "Sure. I see him now"
She sends me another message saying 'thanks and you make me laugh', then referenced the message I had just sent to her. I re-read what I'd sent her and about fell over from laughing so hard. What was it I said? "Sure. I pee him now"
SO FUNNY!!!
It's not often I don't check my messages before I send them - sometimes I purposely text the wrong things - but when I do send them wrong it is pretty funny.
As a side note with just as much laughter involved:
I was invited to dinner last night at Jamie's house and after we ate she was telling me about the things she was selling on Ebay. She had received an email from a lady asking something about the items she was selling. It went something like this: "Is the color burgundy or maroon? Do you have more. Am willing to buy all?"
We got a good laugh about that for the rest of the night. Questions in the form of statements and statements in the form of questions. If that were a test, she would have gotten 1/3. I think we will have a fun time making jokes about that for a long while yet :) We did discover, however, that questions in the form of statements aren't nearly as funny as statements as questions; but you never know when one will be just too funny.
It made me think of the whole texting thing too... how sometimes you get the wrong punctuation mark. "I love you?" instead of "I love you!" and vice versa. "when do you get back!" as opposed to "when do you get back?"
It's all funny and makes me laugh.
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