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"Don't Text Me So Early!"
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Anonymous
I just meant she'd have been startled and in a bad mood from not getting enough sleep thus being short in the text. Is that a panic disorder? |
Anonymous
What's 'inane' about "Hey Susan, Michael graduates on the 1st and we are having a family BBQ that afternoon at 4 and would love it of you could come. Please let me know. No need to bring anything!" |
Anonymous
Age is definitely a factor. I also think people who expect texting to occur within certain hours have family and friends that work regular 9-5 jobs. I have family and friends working shifts that change from week to week or others that travel frequently. What’s normal working hours for 9-5 DC is different from their changing schedules. I don’t text intending to wake them but it’s understood we don’t have perfect information and I’m glad technology helps us avoid inconvenient noise. |
Anonymous
You are the one who does not want to be intruded on and you have the power to stop it. You chose not to. I’m assume you are not 95 year old and know that this issue can addressed. You assume some kind of old school “manners” when we are talking about technology that allows you to address the problem. But you don’t. That’s why I (and many many others) wonder if you are stupid. |
Anonymous
1) I think there are time limits for texting if you care to be considerate. You don’t know if someone has silenced notifications or not so you should assume they have not and be courteous to only text between 8am-8pm. 2) yes, ideally people should silence text notifications if they don’t want to be bothered by texts. But maybe your SIL forgot to silence texts or doesn’t know how to or perhaps even just the light from her phone woke her up? Even if she has texts silenced it’s possible her phone lights up when she gets a text and that woke her? Anyway, I still think since your text wasn’t urgent, you should have waited at least til after 8 to send it. |
Anonymous
Not me! The sun keeps waling me up every damn morning. If God wanted me to have blinds he would have miracled them to me! Until then, the the sun's damn fault! |
Anonymous
DP but inane isn’t the right word…I think PP really just meant that OP’s text could’ve waited. It wasn’t that important that OP needed to send it at 6 am. |
Anonymous
Not everyone’s window is 8am-8pm. Mine would be 12pm-12am. Isn’t it great that everyone can set their preferred hours for alerts on their phone? No need to worry if your text is too early or too late because the recipient has 100% control over when they’re notified to read it. |
Anonymous
| Team SIL. That’s a d*** move. |
Anonymous
Ohh, we aren't wondering. We know she is stupid. |
Anonymous
Didn't you already hear? That team lost. Because they are morons. |
Anonymous
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OP is like my mother, though my mom has the excuse of living in Europe and being 77. One night, at 3 AM, she kept texting and texting. I had alerts on since she was dealing with cancer.
So, it was nothing, and I said it was night, and she said, why aren't you sleeping? And I said I would if you stopped texting me. She said, in a text, ok, then I will stop... then are you sleeping yet? |
Anonymous
That is great but also: don’t text people between 8pm-8am is generally (for majority of people) a good rule. |
Anonymous
This. I have kids and therefore would never silence my phone. |
Anonymous
Two problems with your ageist post: old people not only know how to use their phones, but they also don't comprise the only age groups who understand texting etiquette. I am in my early 30s and think OP and the loon who feels so bad to discover what a rude, nasty shrew she is that she has to come here and call everybody old and stupid, are wrong. |