click click, click. No this is not morse code, I am texting, and that is the word text. I feel as awkward doing this as I did the first time I tried to inhale a cigarette. How do people do this, why don’t they just pick up the phone and call, isn’t that easier. \u00a0I’m\u00a0 hoping, it will eventually become easier and more pleasurable.\u00a0 I would not want anyone to know how long it took me to text a short message, how many times I lost my message, I even erased the phone number.\u00a0 I will persevere and be as proficient a texter than any \u00a0others my own age.\u00a0One nice thing is the texter is instantly rewarded,\u00a0 as before there is time to put the phone away there is an incoming text. Of\u00a0course you have to answer…and off you go again..click, click. \u00a0\u00a0I realized while I was visiting my 17, 16 and 15 year old grandsons\u00a0this summer that if I am going to be able to communicate with them, I better learn to text.\u00a0\u00a0When I was leaving I told\u00a0Damian that I was going to start texting him so I could keep up with what is going on in his life.\u00a0 He said that if I didn’t want to text I could call him.\u00a0 I felt very special when he said that as he talked to no one all summer on the phone.\u00a0 It was like he gave me a privelege that he not even\u00a0extended to his closest buddies. \u00a0 I never thought that he might have figured I was too old to text.\u00a0 While I was visiting it struck me how hard it is for parents today to keep up\u00a0with what their teenagers are up to. \u00a0When my sons were growing up we had\u00a0one phone in the kitchen.\u00a0 I knew pretty much what they were doing and who they were doing it with.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Where are you going? Who are you going with?\u00a0 Oh no you’re not.\u00a0 Damian, on the other hand, \u00a0would come to me out of the blue and asked if I could take him and his friend to the fair.\u00a0\u00a0You better check with your mother.\u00a0 I did. Does Miles know we’re picking him up.\u00a0 He does.\u00a0 I never heard him talk to anyone, how do they know?\u00a0 Oh, texting, even his mother texts him.\u00a0 I observed the three of them for the rest of the summer and realized what I had to do if I wanted to get any of their attention. \u00a0I sensed Damian was very proud of me as his return text said You did it.\u00a0 I think he was as surprised as I\u00a0was.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I have to admit that when he did not return a text to me right away I was\u00a0 discouraged.\u00a0 I thought about my text, and not knowing how private they are, or\u00a0if their friends get to see their texts, I did not want to end with Grammie, so I put G.\u00a0 I thought maybe he doesn’t recognize my cell number and he is wondering who G is.\u00a0 My second text said G stands for Grammie….I got an instant reply.\u00a0 So I am officially up and running.\u00a0 However like any sport we get involved in requires better equipment, \u00a0I realize so does texting.\u00a0 I will probably have to upgrade my phone as it takes quite awhile to click there is an alligator in the driveway…I need a phone with a keyboard.\u00a0 I do promise myself that I will not stand around looking at my phone, or sit in a restaurant texting, or interrupt a conversation to check messages, oh well unless it is from my grandsons.\u00a0\u00a0I will apologize though, and I know everyone will understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
click click, click. No this is not morse code, I am texting, and that is the word text. I feel as awkward doing this as I did the first time I tried to inhale a cigarette. How do people do this, why don’t they just pick up the phone and call, isn’t that easier. \u00a0I’m\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":721,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}