"Yeah" why???????

I prefer to text D and my friend who's a midwife and works shifts as I never know when they can take a call. A text can be read at their convenience.
To me that's the main advantage of texting.

It's cool man, gotta get down with the kids yeah, like, innit

DS texts Yup, not yeah. Same thing though, innit?

exactly Bags but cost wise probably cheaper than phoning as when she does it lasts for hours.........

Haha! I'm not quite that bad, marmight. Taking twenty minutes over twenty words is kind of defeating the purpose of texting, which is often about speed of communication

I have a friend who texts in 'telegram' speak and uses no full stops. It takes her about 20 minutes to compose a 20 word text. I usually get the gist but most are, initially, incomprehensible

I have a friend who can't text . If I text her she just presses reply so I know she has received it.

I once sent Mr P a blank text to show that I wasn't talking to him

The first texted K I got was from my husband. I go one better: when he sends me a text to inform me of something, e.g. that he'll be late, I just reply by sending a blank text which means "OK, got your message".

If I reply at all.

I then used K in a reply to a message from Minibags, again just to let her know the message was received. Apparently it's an insult to teenagers. Pish! says I. It's a straightforward, minimalist reply, though not as minimalist as a blank text, I have to admit. Apparently other people's mums send screeds. My response to that is: "I'm not other people's mums".

For the first few years of my owning a mobile phone, it wasn't usually switched on. It was for emergencies such as when my back 'went' and I couldn't move when I was in the loft. DD2 once sent me a text asking: "Is your phone ever on?" When I found the message, I replied: "No ". My phone's always on now, if only because it's my cooking timer, though I switch it to silent at night.

People didn't take offence at the minimalism of telegrams, did they? Texts are just modern day telegrams, though usually less urgent.

Did anyone see Paul's "Meat-free Monday" video? It should be on youtube, don't know how to do a link but go and have a look, yeah? It's very funny, you know? Yeah?

Of course, your boss's son could be too young to know who the Beatles were, Paul's looking a bit doddery these days and the voice is not what it was.

Oh! read the OP properly, emails not texts
I can do those if I have a proper keyboard
Yay!

DGD used to like the norty step
She would sit and hum or sing

Yeah, yeah, yeah
I blame the Beatles

I never send texts anyway
fat finger syndrome

I don't know why it's always you who gets hauled over the coals, jingl. There were others involved...

Got "Server not found", so don't anyone else bother. #incurablynosy

that wasn't supposed to be a link. No idea what you'll get if you click on it.

whisper norty step again

Hey Jings, You been away again! ? Missed you !

nina I also get "K" from my son. It's so darn annoying because I check the phone after it beeps and that is all there is: "K".

Tut tut, what would our ancestors think?All those long interesting letters they wrote.

roses D can't even manage OK, sometimes her response to a text is simply.

K.

Yep, I agree!

Yey! Wassup! I woz sad to read that P. I wouldn't say anything, as he is the bosses son!

It's shocking.