TEXTING....OMG

for all of you youngsters...this will probably sound oh so silly....but I don't text....if most of your friends are over fifty.....texting is not an option ....I have never used this particular feature of my cell phone, because frankly, some of our friends have trouble with emails...lol...and forget attachments...it is just not happening....
but I have a new business contact that is in her 40's and is sometimes hard to get in touch with...her message machine is always full ...but you can text her...
OK, this sounds easy...you see all the kids do it 24/7...while eating, walking, even talking to someone, which by the way I think is just plain rude...like call waiting...excuse me while I check to see if someone more wonderful than you is on the other line...OK for a business...but in your home...please...
well...I just jumped in and tried my hand at texting...not easy at first, especially when I couldn't figure out how to type just a plain massage...according to my phone you have to set it for ABC...not the coded texting short hand Hindu stuff I was getting.....my phone has pre-done texts you can send...like... bugger off I'm busy...call me...where are you...but these weren't what was required....my phone also has a camera so I can send a picture...doesn't matter of what, because these pictures are always shitty...and who would I send it to. anyway ????..lol....
when I received a reply to my text I was over the moon...how sad is that?....the phone has lots of little features you can play with........Mr. Squiggee says there is a texting shorthand book...
.....hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....for someone that spells as creatively as I do we had better stick to basic English....
U R here...I get it, but it is not me...... since I just have this one contact that I text, I will never be fast or proficient at this anyway...and it makes me feel old , because it requires all my concentration to type , when I could so easily call...you remember calling...the phone would ring and with no message machine or caller id , you would just answer it...and be surprised....but as everyone over 50 knows...you either get with it or be left behind..........I will master it eventually, like I do all things... the keys being so small doesn't help....and I definitely have to have my bifocals and plenty of light......and coffee.....sad...but true...in a perfect world I would have a small child follow me and text for me...lol....any takers...