When Texting Goes Too Far
You know, even though I have been married to the point where I am going to start needing my toes to help count, I have yet to have one of my soon to be ex-wives text while they were walking down the aisle. I know this bride probably wanted one last Tweet as a single woman or wanted to check into Four Square for her own wedding, but it seems so wrong. Plus, really keeping it down your dress? What if it starts vibrating or going off during the ceremony and you have to reach down to get it and it slips and the next thing you know you are groping yourself in front of your closest 200 friends.
The crazy thing is there are tons of videos where people are texting while they are getting married or walking down the aisle. I am shocked. Has anyone ever seen that before in person?
Sad. But ehat is worst commentary, this or Kim K wedding? Have to go with Kim. She really faded us all.
ReplyDeleteI have heard of people changing their facebook status at the same time in church from engaged to married. But it's done as a goof and it's cure.
ReplyDeleteBut not general texting.
dumb people are scary.
I am allergic to cell phone over users who ignore signs, civility, and common courtesy, and just text, or yap away at the most odd life moments.
ReplyDeleteLast time I took the train, this check was texting and blabbing at the same time. It was rush hour, and in my 15-minute ride downtown, we all learned that she has an STD, doesn't know how to tell her mother, or her best friend, for it was that bf's boyfriend that gave her the STD. Yes. That's how loudly and detail-oriented her conversation was.
Quit the phones for a bit so you can actual live a life interesting enough to text about!
She was probably playing a word on her Words with Friends app.
ReplyDeleteWho do you know that would text you during your wedding? And aren't they there AT the wedding?
ReplyDeleteThe stop sign is too much. My caption for the still is "Is this moron standing in front if the stop sign or not? Swear to gawd i will rip the photographer and him new ones if they mess up my wedding videos!"
ReplyDeleteUGH.
ReplyDeleteI think it's kind of gross when people send immediate texts or pics regarding births, too. Five minutes after a kid enters the world, you're bound to know its weight, length, eye color, poop color, fondness for the teat, etc.
We get that you're happy, but happiness used to be something closely shared among a few select people before letting the whole WORLD in on it.
I have a friend who texts while she's having lunch or dinner with me. I'm going to have to talk to her about it the next time we go out because its rude and I'm tired of it. So many of these texts are just stupid as hell anyway.
ReplyDeleteI don't mind texting but their is a limit as to when to use it. Getting married is a no-no for texting.
ReplyDeleteChanging your Facebook status at the wedding is cute, but this tacky. About as tacky as her sausage casing wedding dress. Sleeves are our friends, ladies.
ReplyDeletemy sister CONSTANTLY texts when we are together, and we only see each other once a month or so. and when she isn't texting, she is updating her facebook, or checking her facebook. it makes me want to grab her iphone and run over it with my school bus!
ReplyDelete@Chrissy - used to be the same with my sister, until I made it a rule when she visits. If she is visiting ME to catch up and spend time with ME, her cell phone goes by the window in the kitchen during her visit. Or she's not welcome.
ReplyDeleteI was clear that I'm not inviting her over so I can have the honor of watching her text away.
Texting is definitely a new addiction!
I cannot stand texting. I did it a lot when my daughter was a teenager, 'Where ARE YOU???' 'It's past your curfew!', but I won't do it again. A friend of mine came to visit a few months ago and she had a different, obnoxious ringtone for everyone and it was going off constantly and she had her nose in her phone a lot. I almost went through the roof and I probably will never invite her up here again. Well, to be fair she also flashed her boobs to the highway from my front porch, snored like a buzzsaw, was loud at all hours, wandered around my place without any pants, and was really vulgar around my nephew - it's so different when you can visit someone for a short time and leave than it is having them stay with you for 5 days, LOL. It was like being in a frat house and I'm too damn old for that.
ReplyDeleteIt's not only rude to disregard the human being in front of you for someone 'out there', it's kinda sad. I think the whole point of living on earth is to experience and learn in the physical realm, but I think a lot of humans are over it and prefer to drift off into the ether any chance they can get.
That is just beyond sad and tacky.
ReplyDeleteWhat a goddamn asshole. If I were the groom I'd be high tailin' it outta there. I'd send her a text to let her know the wedding was off...
ReplyDeletei hate cellphones, period. they've made people even more rude than they already were. every single thought that comes into someone's head must be tweeted or texted, or a call must be made.
ReplyDeletei long for the good old days when you were gone from home, people called, and had to call back later because you couldn't be reached. seeing everyone walk around with their phone in their hands all the time is so silly.
Well what do you expect when it's a couple getting married on a street corner?
ReplyDeleteTACKY!
Not to be mean, but what a LOSER.
ReplyDeleteIda--I HATE it when people post a pic of their baby that was born four seconds before. DON'T YOU HAVE OTHER SHIT TO DO BESIDES FACEBOOK AT A TIME LIKE THIS?! Ugh. I hate Facebook in so many ways. I mean, of course I'm on it (ha!) but I f'ing HATE it. And don't even get me started on Four Square. WHAT IS THE POINT?! I just...can't.
On FB, the amount of trivial over-sharing becomes unbelievable. ("Marcie Frammis is at Trader Joe's!") I had one friend posting about termites in the mulch in front of the laundromat. Gimme a break!
ReplyDeleteI should have watched the video first--I didn't realize she was checking her phone during the actual ceremony. Wow!
ReplyDeleteI have a habit of saying "Shut the HELL up!" When I am out in a restaurant or cafe and someone is talking REALLY LOUD on their phone. Just me.
ReplyDeleteWho could possibly be MORE important than your almost husband and guests that you'd have to check your text messages. Tragic and sad. Wonder what she does during sex?
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ReplyDeleteI just wanted to add that there's also a nice, cozy, special place in hell for people who text or chat during movies -- and ESPECIALLY folks who feel the need to hold up their phones to record shitty, shoddy, jerky footage of songs that they obviously aren't *that* enamored with in the first place-- if they were, they'd actually LISTEN to the GD music instead of thoughtlessly ruin the show for the unfortunate people standing/sitting behind them.
ReplyDeleteThis is a huuuuuuge pet peeve of mine, and it's not just hipster assholes in stinky venues. I saw a (grownass) woman do this at a Gillian Welch show a few months ago, and there were approximately 92577572728 signs in the venue stating that cellphones were NOT allowed.
People are NOT getting more polite or evolved. That's for damned sure.
I feel bad for the groom...
ReplyDeleteThis shows how sacred she views the wedding day, jeez!
ReplyDeleteI have a whole bunch of 18-22 yr olds in my uni classes and it drives me nuts with all the phone attachment- I swear cell phones have become like portable nipples or something!!!!! People have serious attatchment to their phones.
I think some of you parents made this mistake and caused the generation below me to be so dependent on technology. It seems like there was no critical consicouness about this- yes you want to be able to check in with your kid- but having 15 and 16 yr old's with iPhones and apps and all that shit IS NOT NECESSARY. I blame the people who've been parents for the last 10 yrs or so and have given the kid every type of technology and more, have not regulated boundaries around this technology.
Guess what- it's NOT okay to text during dinner/movies/school/and a fucking wedding!!!
But yeah, this chick texting during her wedding scares me- god I hope the next generation isnt even worse.
I will guarantee that my DBF and I will check in from our wedding someday. He will handle FourSquare, and I will do Facebook. The couple that texts together....
ReplyDeleteI think the look on the groom's face says it all.
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Big Mama...my thought exactly!
ReplyDeleteI disagree with all of you and think this is a great idea.
ReplyDeleteI could just picture the priest at the ceremony... "If anyone has a reason that this couple should not be wed, text them now at twitter.com/hunnybunniesforever or post it on their Facebook wall or forever hold your peace."
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Umm, no I have never seen that before and all I can say is TACKY! Sheesh!
ReplyDeleteno. but i think i'm almost addicted to my iPhone. i could see it.
ReplyDeleteBut it's a hetero couple so you know that they've both got the proper sancrosanct Holy Spirit in them as they merge their minds, bodies and futures in a religious and legally blessed union....
ReplyDelete[Am assuming hetero based on comments because the video has been removed.]