I debated even adding this one to the list, but after what happened at work today, it not only makes the cut but gets bumped up as well.

TEXTING

Why?

At work today, I spent more than 30 minutes trying (and failing) not to listen to a co-worker on the other side of my cubicle wall talking to an unidentified male (either her husband or step son, I learned later from a trusted colleague). Doubtless thinking herself clever, she was leaning close to the wall on her side, as though trying to hide the fact that she was having this stupid conversation. This of course had the effect of amplifying both sides of the discussion for my benefit.

It was essentially a half-hour nag session, and one of the topics was the other party's overuse of his cell phone's text messaging feature. Apparently the lad in question had racked up something like 80 text messages in just a couple of days, most if not all to the same person. Some of the text messages apparently were stuff like we might share in IM chat, such as "LOL" or ":D" and such, which of course cost just as much per message to send or receive as full length diatribes written in a language we actually can understand.

The entire conversation only served to hammer home the point that -- to me, at least -- the text messaging feature on cell phones is utterly retarded.

You've got a phone in your hand, dumbass! Just call your fellow dumbass, rather than engaging in the 21st century version of passing notes in school. And while we're on the subject, when did "text" and "texting" become verbs, anyway? I'm not even going to get into the entire phonefreak shorthand that's evolved from the practice, which has only served to make regular Internet slang seem like Latin in comparison.

mov it 2 d lst? gr8!

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