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   From: dragonlady60@q.com   
      
   "Mac Breck"  wrote in message   
   news:2JednY602q-ASHLXnZ2dnUVZ_oudnZ2d@supernews.com...   
   > Dragon Lady wrote:   
   >>>> I've also never understood the attaction of texting.   
   >>>   
   >>> Same here!  In fact, I have texting blocked on my phone because I'd   
   >>> never intended on doing any texting and had begun to receive   
   >>> unsolicited spam text messages, which I had to pay for because I was   
   >>> not on a texting plan.   
   >>   
   >> I haven't had to do that so far.  The only text message I ever got   
   >> was from, of all people, my ISP.  I did *not* get charged for it, and   
   >> it's a darn good thing I didn't.  They would have cause holy hell for   
   >> charging me for an unsolicited text message sent to a customer who   
   >> didn't have a texting plan. I suspect it's purpose was supposed to be   
   >> to try to convine me to get one.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>>> Why would you   
   >>>> bother to type out a message when you can dial and speak to the   
   >>>> person?   
   >>>   
   >>> If you want the person to be able to get the message without having   
   >>> to speak into the phone?  Still, most people have annoying alert   
   >>> sounds assigned to incoming text messages, and loud beep sounds for   
   >>> their keystrokes.  It gets damned annoying on long car trips when   
   >>> passengers get into a texting frenzy, and I often find that I wish   
   >>> the car had ICBM-like launch tubes for those seats (Grrrr!).  Same   
   >>> goes for people who talk on the phone constantly in the car.  Don't   
   >>> they realize that nobody else wants to hear all that crap?   
   >>   
   >> *snort*  Frankly, talking is a lot less effort than texting.  As far   
   >> as I can tell, the purpose of texting is so kids can pass messages   
   >> around at school without the teachers knowing.  And they wonder why   
   >> schools ban cell phones....   
   >   
   > Once I gave somebody a ride from Pittsburgh to Toledo and the idiot   
   > talked on his cellphone ALL THE WAY TO TOLEDO.  Then, he complained that   
   > he had a 3000 minute plan and was still running out of minutes.  I   
   > thought to myself, "No shit, Sherlock!"   
      
   Bwahahahahahahahahahaha!  He spent 4 solid hours talking, and he can't   
   figure out why a 50 hour a month plan isn't enough?  Did he flunk high   
   school math?   
      
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