First things first. I found an article on dating that I posted below. It ain’t mine, but it’s worth skimming. I don’t like posting more than once a day, but, I’m getting clogged up over here in drafts.
Went to the gym today. I could hear the voice of HT as I pedaled away on the stairmaster. It made me ill. I turned off on him really fast, and I’m officially stripping the “Hot” part of his title. Now he’s just the trainer. He sent me an email today that said, “How are you?” I wrote back and said, “Ridiculously busy. And you?” And he said, “On and off busy.” I fell into a coma during that exchange. I’m sure you all did too. Ok. Moving right along.
I hate when people call and say, “Hi, it’s me.” Then launch into their dribble. You know how if you get a missed call you can piece it together? But Velvet’s cell phone doesn’t always reveal who called. The caller laments, in voicemail, that they went “right to voicemail” right after they say, “Hi, it’s me.” People! Unless you are my family, I urge you to stop doing this. It is so blipping annoying for you to assume that I know who you are. Girlfriends aside, it’s even harder to discern from my bevy of men who call at any given time.
Tonight as I was wrestling with the dogs to cut their ridiculous Medusa-like nails, I got a text message. It said, “Guess who?” This message stream ensued:
Velvet: “No Clue.”
Unknown person: “Boo. I must be one of the many you have given your number to recently.”
(Dude, we’re on Craigslist. Duh!)
Velvet: (Trying to be coy,) “There ain’t no telling. Kidding. Actually I’m pretty careful with dispensing the digits. So why did you take the cowards way out and text instead of call?”
{I’m still laughing at the sheer absurdity of what I just wrote. Again, my number is in more places than BORF.}
Unknown person: “So, you had my number when the random call came in. I’m far from a coward.”
Velvet: “You should have called instead of sending this. It’s too hard to type…”
Unknown person: “Sorry, I will.”
Velvet: “Ha Ha.”
Unknown person: “You could always call me.”
Velvet: “I don’t do that…you asked for my number, you call.”
What the FUCK is wrong with these people?
I don’t know which one he is but I am irritated right now. Who told these men that text messages are an acceptable form of communication? Why has the text message replaced the actual live phone call? Are we so busy that we can’t get on the phone with someone? Stop trying to conduct relationships via text messaging. Come on dude, you’re KILLING me.
CL#1 has officially been renamed to CL#1Writer. Because, like, duh, he’s a writer. And not a writer like the NC-17 dribble you read on this blog. A real live writer about topics so far beyond my intelligence that I could never compete. I have to keep the CL# beginning to their nickname, so then I can keep track where they came from. Think of it like a marketing effort, “And how did you hear about dating Velvet?”
So, CL#1Writer and I have a date on Friday night. He emailed me. I accepted.
One of the other two CL’s (#2 or #3) has got to be the text tormenter. I don’t know which one it is, but that will become his new nickname, and the other one will have to be appropriately named as he reveals himself.
Midnight Drunken Update:
Ok, I finally had an actual phone conversation with the text tormenter. But what you are reading now is drunken blogging as I had promised to go to BestGuyFriend-M’s tree trimming party tonight and forgot about it until the very lastest minute. I wanted to bail but I’m glad I went because I got to see some fab people I never get to see! I had two glasses of wine, then a glass of champagne, then a glass of half champagne/half wine, then finally, ended with a glass of wine. Once more for those in the back: Velvet is wasted.
I snuck out in the hall to return a call from CL#3text-tormenter. That is his new name. He is the one in the same industry as me. I’m not impressed by our phone convo, as he said “You never told me you had a fake name.” And I said, “You never said your name was ‘this.’” He insists he did, but after consulting all our emails, nope, he never said. Anyway, he wants to try to get together this weekend. More tongue in my mouth, yum yum. I mean, uh, oops.
Sidenote – drunk as I am, you should SEE the tiny Velvet-sized-parking-space that I poured SpeedRacer into. I cannot believe it. Shut up, I only drove 4 blocks, but it’s under 20 degrees out there, and yes, one recent day I said that I would soon be complaining about how cold it is, and here is that day. And I was so not going to circle the block and park any further than close to the front door of the Velvet Condo Building. G’night.
Sorry. That text message stream was me.
(just kidding) 😉
Hi, it’s me. I really enjoyed meeting you on blah, blah, blah at blah, blah, blah. I was hoping that we could meet again – maybe blah, blah, blah at blah, blah, blah. Anyway, you have my number now so call me back.
Sorry. Couldn’t help myself. I actually had a stream of those calls ending in a screaming message about how I don’t return phone calls.
Um, yeah. I don’t if I don’t have the number and if I don’t have reception I don’t have number.
Then, again, I did agree to randomly go out with a guy I’d apparently given my number. I hoped I’d recognize him at the bar. I kind of did.
The correct answer to guess who this is would be
1. The guy with the amazingly small penis?
2. The guy with the anal herpes outbreak?
3. The hermaphrodite?
Keep going down the list of insults until he gets the idea.
😛
I don’t get text messaging at all. I agree. Pick up the telephone, punch the NUMBERS in, call and speak. These “removes” and steps away from human contact are driving me le batty.
texts are convenient for loud bars, quick notes of affection (that can be saved on the phone), or making plans with multiple people (one text, 20 recipients). Otherwise, just call and say hi…
Cookie – agreed. Loud bars are the only place I’ve really been happy to send a text. I’m thinking of boycotting them all together.
Johnny – loved your responses. I wish I was quicker on my feetsies to have thought of those.
I confess I’m a texter. I’ve had entire funny conversations via text, but it’s often when making a call isn’t as convenient (loud bar, bus ride home, basically anywhere surrounded by other people who you don’t want to hear your call.) But it sounds like CL#3-TT isn’t gonna be the big winner. Good luck!
as you already know, your thoughts on texting reminded me of a stupid situation I got myself into thanks to texting. needless to say, i shy away from it now 🙂