I regulary get about two text messages a week saying "wanna b my txtm8? pls txt bak" or somehing similar in shorthand Tagalog. I never reply to them anymore, after a initial mistake with a guy who turned out to be seriously gay and my wife started to wonder if this "Andy" really was a man.
Apparently people pick a random number to see if the person in the other end is lonely too. FDLP*-theory would be that when a densily population nation with a extended family culture gets urbanised, detached city people search for a substitute to cover up their rootlessness. A friend of a friend spends about 2000 PhP/months on text messages, equals about 60 a day.
Anyways.
This is my car. Sometime this morning an individual left an important message on it.
I prefer the "I wish my wife was this dirty".
/J.
*Four-drinks-later-psychiatrist
2 comments:
Like the FDLP concept, LG. The pervasiveness of txting can be seen in things like:
1) People txting while conversing (NOT interrupting a conversation to txt, but actually doing both at once), and
2) The use of txt for 'official' business that would require at least a phone call in our home countries. This can range from setting up business meetings, booking accommodation and hair appointments through to receiving medical test results (as happened to a friend of mine - fortunately they were all OK).
The P can also be exchanged for Philosopher when appropriate. To prove the point "If the depths of late night conversions could be transgressed to the sunlight hours the world would be a very different place" etc.
I also like the fire department we you should txt in whenever there was a fire and the fact that people get stunned when you actually call them even though you still have the option to text.
/J.
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