Anonymous wrote:Eh, I’m happy to get the texts. My pet peeve is when someone who doesn’t know me (cashiers, random people) wish me a happy Mother’s Day when they don’t know if I’m actually a mother. I found that hurtful while going through 10 years of infertility (mom by adoption), and I know how painful Father’s Day was after my dad passed. These can be painful holidays, and I wish people would not say “happy Mother’s Day or Father’s Day “ unless they know for sure that the person is a parent.

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Anonymous wrote:How clueless and rude. I don't need your insipid text with heart and bouquet emojis. Let me sleep. Let me clean up the sloppy breakfast my kids made for me. Let me just have a Sunday morning.

Good grief. You need to Google how to set the DND which you can override so that certain people can always reach you. How awful to have people sending you nice wishes. That's really terrible.

You don't know what people are going through. Not everyone has the luxury of setting DND. Why don't you schedule your text and send it at a decent hour?

wtf. Setting DND so that only certain people’s calls/texts will alert you is not a “luxury”; it's just understanding how to use your phone. You can set it so that, for instance, your spouse and parents and kids can always get through the DND but no one else can.

I know someone who did that. Their kid was mugged and had their phone stolen, and couldn't contact the parents using their friend's phone because the friend's number was blocked by DND.

This. DND only allows certain numbers, which defeats the whole point of being able to contact someone in an emergency

Then you get a land line, and have people call that in your emergency situation from a random phone number.

Ridiculous! You will do all kinds of mental contortions but not simply schedule your text within normal times

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Anonymous wrote:How clueless and rude. I don't need your insipid text with heart and bouquet emojis. Let me sleep. Let me clean up the sloppy breakfast my kids made for me. Let me just have a Sunday morning.

Good grief. You need to Google how to set the DND which you can override so that certain people can always reach you. How awful to have people sending you nice wishes. That's really terrible.

You don't know what people are going through. Not everyone has the luxury of setting DND. Why don't you schedule your text and send it at a decent hour?

wtf. Setting DND so that only certain people’s calls/texts will alert you is not a “luxury”; it's just understanding how to use your phone. You can set it so that, for instance, your spouse and parents and kids can always get through the DND but no one else can.

You are so clueless. Some people are first responders. Some people have parents in hospice. Some people are on call. Get out of your privilege bubble

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Anonymous wrote:I still don't understand why anyone's phone makes noise in 2025. Whenever I hear a loud ding, it's a Boomer's phone.

So. You’ve never had urgent/emergency phone calls in the middle of the night from people you love? Perhaps it is just a Boomer thing.

Anonymous wrote:I still don't understand why anyone's phone makes noise in 2025. Whenever I hear a loud ding, it's a Boomer's phone.

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Anonymous wrote:The Op has a point. The HMD texts are not coming from her kids. They are coming from outsiders who she is not the mom to. People have over sensationalized this made up holiday. Let the kids treat mom today. Have you noticed how every mom friend, sister, aunt, etc. send these HMD texts? It’s gone over board. I can see how that irritated the Op.

NP and I agree. It’s one thing to hear from my own mother, my MIL, and my sister. Maybe an aunt or two. But I really don’t need to hear from friends and *old coworkers.* Like, just focus on your own mom and people close to you! I don’t need junk texts from every corner of my extended acquaintence.

You’ve got that “get off my lawn” vibe. Just very negative and crotchety. “Junk texts” from people who obviously hold you in high regard? Geez.