Convenience got the best of my frugality today and I added the 300 text message plan to each of our phones. (Well, I guess it’s more accurate to say that different frugal strategies were warring and paying less for a strictly unnecessary feature won out over avoiding the expense by not texting at all.)
In celebration, I sent Cait a text saying Text away, baby!
Only I have her phone in my bag. Mine too.
So I am texting myself. At least it’s not costing me $.20 a pop anymore.
True fact: I have never sent a text message. I tried to once, and it took me twenty minutes, and I don’t think it ever got to the recipient.
By: Annika on February 26, 2009
at 11:44 am
Me, too, Annika. Me too.
By: Lo on February 26, 2009
at 12:01 pm
Man. Now I feel simultaneously thrilled that we can text y’all, and HORRIFICALLY GUILTY FOR THE TWO TIMES I DID.
By: J on February 26, 2009
at 12:46 pm
woo! yea me!
By: shelli on February 26, 2009
at 1:13 pm
i am in awe you’ve gone this long w/o a text plan. i’m not sure a waking hours passes when i don’t text… i’s my preferred method of communication – i really hate talking on the phone. just wait, soon you’ll need the fancy texting keyboard.
By: e. on February 26, 2009
at 3:15 pm
I am all about the text! If it means I can avoid having a conversation with someone, but still get what they need, I’m good! I have the fastest thumbs in town!
By: CJ on February 27, 2009
at 3:46 pm
1) I find it really funny that the comment thread is all about texting or not texting, while I wrote it to poke fun at myself for taking both the phones and essentially texting MYSELF.
2) Having free rein to text has had immediate repercussions: Cait went out and got a new, snazzy QWERTY phone for better texting. (And it only cost $2 because it was a free upgrade – the $2 was for parking!)
By: thatjen on February 28, 2009
at 11:09 pm