Texting Etiquette Question

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  1. fir

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    A friend of yours texts you in the early hours of the morning, thinking you are still up.
    You're were actually fast asleep.

    Are you
    a) Annoyed with yourself for leaving the phone on / not putting it on silent / not switching your phone off

    b) Annoyed with your friend; they should know better than to be texting at such an unearthly hour

    c) Grateful for any texts you receive - it's great to have friends


    (dunno)

    :D
     
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    Or d)...

    d) Giggling like mad because you know the person sending it is totally out of his/her tree with alcohol
     
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    Giggling whilst asleep

    Interesting.
    :D
     
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    RE: Giggling whilst asleep

    But surely you've just been woken up by the text?!

    I often text people at silly hours and if they moan about it I ask why on earth they have their text tone on when they're in bed!
     
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    It would all depend on who was doing the texting? ....; )
     
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    Yes, it wasn't that difficult was it?

    1) Person fast aseleep in bed

    2) Phone makes funny whistling noise, indicating an incoming text

    3) Person wakes up, makes a mental note to put phone on silent next time

    4) Person reads text, realises it is incomprehensible, then starts giggling

    5) Person resists the temptation to text back, thereby starting an ongoing conversation in the middle of the night

    6) Person goes back to sleep
     
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    Not applicable in this case

    Neither the texter or the textee drink. <font color="#ffff99">*</font>



    <font color="#ffff99">*only occasionally in large amounts</font>
     
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    Textee?

    Textee? What absolute ******! Why can't you people speak English?

    Or did you mean "Texteetotal"?
     
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    That's rich

    from the King of utter ****** (neer)
     
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    A for me. nt
     

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