Mobile text messaging is a horrible invention

Let me tell you why... People don't call anymore. You can't hear their voice and can't try to picture what they're doing. Men can lie easier. It takes longer to say what you want to say, and everything gets condensed into impersonal fragments with word shortcuts.

You see people driving next to you on the freeway who can't stay in their lane of traffic because they are too busy text messaging their buddy about the chick from last night. They swoop over into your lane and look up at you sheepishly with the cell phone in their hand as if you're supposed to understand and accept why they are trying to kill you.

If you need to talk to a guy you think you like it's hard to figure out the mood he's in from one text msg. You can hypothesize that because he responded "Hi" and not "Hi Sweetie" that he doesn't like you anymore. You start to get depresssed when a few hours go by and there has been no response.

Then you get in the circle of craziness by texting him again trying to find out if he got the last message and then when you get no response to that message you start to believe he's either blowing you off, he's with another chick, or he lost his phone. And boy do you hope he's the type to lose his phone.

You don't want to yell at him yet cuz if he turns out to have been in a bad accident--say driving down the freeway reading your text message, you're going to feel like an ass. So you give it time, and still no answer. Then finally right when you're deleting his number and name from your phone-- DING! arriving text message... it's him... he says "sorry... my phone was dead all day.. what's going on sweetie?"

And what do you do? You say it's okay and you leave the number in the phone. But in the back of your mind you're thinking. "Phone was dead? When mine goes dead I plug it in and it's back to life again. What the hell is this guy's deal?"

But yet you stay on. You're hooked for some unknown reason to this guy who can control your moods with just the touch of a cell phone button. You start to wonder if you need therapy or drugs to stabilize yourself because why would something so impersonal as text messaging be such an emotional rollercoaster?