Texts My Mom Sends
After years of having a Zach Morris cell phone from the 1990's, my mom reluctantly moved into the 21st century at least cell phone wise. One of the things she was most excited about was texting. I think though the combination of using the touch screen and her inability to read exactly what she is texting has led to wonderful missives like these. I should point out that all of these were sent within five minutes. Well, she is certainly prolific.
Text #1 - Hi, Ihave just taken Bacon(my dog) fo
Text #2 - e pond. So take yoir tome and enjoy
Text #3 - yhe besitoful weathet. Texy
Text #4 - me your plams tpdau iwillleave the door
Text #5 - rlong walk to th
Text #6 - open.mpm
Hey, I love her and after 10 drinks, mine look pretty similar.
32 comments:
Hilarious!
Reminds me the first time my mother tried to answer my cell phone: picked it up, pushed on all buttons, touching the screen with each and every finger (the finger makes a difference?) then gave it back and said it's broke.
LOL actually after ten drinks I could figure out what she was texting lol
One time my mom called me in a panic and told me she had "broken the internet" when she was unable to email. As if my mom could have "broken" the whole internet.
I had a good laugh at that one.
My mother tried to play my Mac Installation CDs in her DVD player.
After I told her it doesn't work that way.
Those texts look like MY texts when I was first getting used to the keyboard on my iPhone!
My mom is a former English teacher and for some reason capitalizes all of her email text -- LOVE, MOM -- as though the shift key is too confusing to grasp on the Internet but she had not problem with a typewriter. Heh, love it though.
BTW I just had to LOL at the fact that your dog is named BACON, HILARIOUS
i seriously think we have the same mom.
Funny!
That was too funny! LOL
Actually, it looks like my texts (I don't text much)!
LOL!!! When my mom txt's me, it feels like she's always yelling at me. She only knows how to Txt in Upper case letters. "HI HONEY. HOW ARE YOU TODAY?"
Gotta loves moms & new technology.
This is why my Mom doesn't text. She's doing good if to just answer the cellphone. Usually, if I call her it goes straight to voicemail and she swears the phone never rang, she has no missed calls, and no alert went off that she had a missed call.
According to her.... "this damn phone doesn't work right!"
I sure wasted a ton of money buying her a laptop. Sigh.
Califblondy, my mother claims her phone rings twice and then goes to voicemail.
She refuses to even let a computer into her house. Probably because she knows full well her worthless, piece of shit 34 year old son will spend all of her social security money on porn.
My father, father in law, and mother in law all have cell phones now. All are forbidden to text by their children. 2 of the 3 have a hard enough time opening the phone and making a call despite being shown numerous times how to do it (the cheapest simplest phone you can buy anymore is a flip phone). 1 keeps connecting himself to instant messenger and trying to blame me for it even though I'm the one who went through all the settings to disconnect it. I wish the mobile companies would bring back the senior cell phone. It was a good idea, it just wasn't handled very well.
I love that you have a dog named Bacon, Enty. :)
Your mom texts exactly as i do when I'm drunk. :)
I love parent technology stories! My favorite is when I was in college, she'd just learned to use AOL Instant Messenger. One day I left an "away" message and when I got back to my computer, she had kept trying to IM me and thought I kept sending her the away message as a response to her IM's. Finally the last one was like
"I GET IT. Guess you don't feel like chatting and I will talk to you later."
OH, mother. ;)
When my Mom got her first phone that could text, she said "Bill (her boyfriend) and I have been texting, but it would be easier if you could put a space between words and send more than one at a time." They were literally texting one word at a time.
I showed her how to add a space between words and it changed her life. She became a texting fiend, to the point where I got my bill (she's on my phone account) and she had gone WAY over her texting limit; I had to get her unlimited texting.
One word at a time, that's the funniest.
I wish my mom would text. Then I wouldn't have to have a conversation about being on my way to pick her up, etc.
We bought a laptop for my mom and made MSN her homepage. Now when she opens Internet Explorer, she logs into MSN, then logs out of it and then searches or does whatever. I've tried to tell her what she's doing is pointless (she's not checking her mail) but....
Her use of Facebook is a whole different story....
My mom does not text. She has a super fancy android phone which she pretty much doesn't know how to use other than for talking. She doesn't need it.
I have a co-worker who types like this though. It takes a while to decipher her messages every time.
Anita, I did the same thing for my Mom's lap top. I printed out screen shots, I had easy directions for logging on to hotmail, etc.
One day she called me over because the computer was broken, hotmail wouldn't work, whatever, and she had typed the entire email message inside the To box.
I honestly think she just wanted a computer so she could tell her friends that her family adores her so much they bought her a laptop.
Being able to brag means more to her than electronics.
I have a very good friend who is tech savy but is horrible with a touch screen. She likes to text with her thumbs, and she has big fingers. I am very used to having to decipher texts very much like these. Once, before a trip we were taking together to Colorado, she texted me to ask if I was interested in doing some "level 5 farting" while we were out there. After I finished laughing, I responded that I would love to do some "rafting" which is what I knew that she meant.
My mom finally joined the world of texting just within the last year, after whining for the last four that I don't call enough. It has vastly improved both our lives - now I respond right away and don't hear the nagging. Ahhh.
@RJ - laughed my ass off on the farting!
My sister is the tech dummy. The first time she tried to answer it ,when it was ringing, she shook it to turn it on. :)
My parents were going food shopping, and I asked my mom to withdraw money from my ATM card. I explained the buttons and the screens. She came back 2 hours later and handed me my money. She appeared flustered. When I asked her if everything went okay, she said. "I was very insulted. It kept asking me if I needed more time!" My Mom, who had to be dragged, kicking and screaming, into the 20th century. Don't even show her an android phone.
mngdess - You mean the 21st Century?... Or you guys are taking it one step at a time with your mom? Get her used to ATM, then let's introduce her to Skype?
My parents don't do computers, or ATM's as they prefer dealing with the tellers - seriously?
http://parentsshouldnttext.com/
Augh! Mooshki, I'm gonna end up on that site for at least an hour now. :) I love the Kim Kardashian and the AOL ones!
Mooshki! I'm stuck, some are absolutely hilarious! Thanks.
FS, there is still a senior phone provider. It's called Greatcall (formerly Jitterbug), and they sell the very simple phone with the large buttons. You can even just press a button and have one of their operators dial the number for you.
Enty, your mom had BETTER have meant that she was taking Bacon to the pond, and not the *pound*.
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