When you're checkin your phone for bars, you won't find the thin line we cross called RESPECT. We've come to expect way too much from cell phones while at the same time totally abusing its luxury. AND THAT'S ALL IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE, A LUXURY, A PAID PRIVILEGE, A MEANS OF CONVENIENCE. So why does this little pre-paid or contracted,plastic sliding and flippin,Gucci Mane ringtone playing piece of shit have sooooo much power over our connections w/ppl? Cuz we let it, stupid.
TEXTING
Let's get one thing straight. The text message is just that. A MESSAGE. And like any message, voicemail, office memo, email, all get checked when the person is available to check it. Don't send a message needing urgent response through a text. Though many ppl stay glued to their phone's inbox, many don't, and chose to use texting for times not suitable for str8 talkin on a phone. But oh NO, YOU WANNA TAKE IT PERSONALLY.
You wanna go ham cuz it's been 2 hours since u sent a text and gotten no response. A message will always be just that, a message.Waiting to be sent,waiting to be received. So you gon hafta wait up too. Either that, or just, oh I dunno, actually dial the number and call! Try it!
Then you got what ppl are calling, "text tones." Yea. A text is words, sentences, making it literature lol. Just like a book or my blogs, u take words that you see AND NOT HEAR the way you want to. So when you read a text and are left wondering, "what did that mean?" don't try figuring it out on ur own! Cuz u can't! And u have no right.What was said in that text excludes the presence of the person, his/her emotions and physical behavior, all things needed to properly determine one's true mood or tone. NOT the fact you didn't see an LOL at the end so that means the person wasn't jokin come on you're ridiculous.
And don't CONTINUE the text misunderstanding via text.Texting back, "what you mean by that?" will put u further into textual confusion. Ooh I like that phrase, textual confusion. If you're letting words on this little screen get u heated u need to stop NOW, get a human voice in ur ear and get the REAL or suffer amongst the unknown. Your choice.
CALLING
A cell phone is to replace the home phone cuz we're not at home alot. Great. So why is it soooo hard for ppl to understand just cuz the phone can take calls all the time doesn't mean we can. Ppl got shit to do, and it's nice being able to keep in touch with a click of a button.But once again, that's a LUXURY, not a law..So even the LONGEST cell conversation may not be the most accurate to the person's present feelings and current situations. Small lies become pretty much acceptable, let's be honest. And even when truth is being told, for some reason it always SOUNDS like an excuse on a cell phone. Examples:
"What you doin?"
"Aww, nuttin."
Usually you are doin SOMETHING, just not interesting, or SAFE, enough to say.
"Yea I'm on my way home now."
As he/she stops at a store to get some toothpaste and shit, probably run into a friend and talk for a minute or get hungry and stop again for food. Now it's been 30 minutes and THAT MUHFUCKA SAID THEY ON THEY WAY HOME BUT THEY WORK ONLY 10 MIN AWAY SO WTF RIGHT? Wrong.
"My battery going dead."
Now this is honesty, phones go dead.But some of the time that aint the real deal, but YOU have to accept it cuz, well, you have no choice. You dunno where this person is and won't know till that battery gets up. That's the point.
"I'm gon call you back." or "Lemme hit you right back."
Both mean the same thing, don't even try to pick and choose the wording. Right back is the same as back and they all mean one thing: Hopefully you've said enough of what you needed to say cuz I gotta go and am obviously in a situation where I either dunno exactly when I can hit you back OR probably just won't anytime soon. But there was no specification on when I'm gon call you back, or WHY I should even if u wanted me to.
I know this is harsh, especially for my relationship dwellers out there. But you gotta learn to be STRESS FREE about shit not worth stressin in the first place.
Just last night I got a text from a woman asking was her man w/me. Now, of course I KNEW who it was,just chose not to acknowledge that.I said whoever this is, stay off my phone unless you talkin bout money. There. Now in my opinion, I have a right to end it there, even IF I was w/her "man." But she felt she has a right to call whoever she wants, esp on thirst mode when searching for her man lover lmao. She continued saying he wasn't answering her calls/texts and if he was with me it was my place to tell him she's looking for him...
Lemme give that another moment....
...marination...
HELL MUTHAFUCKIN NAW IT AINT MY PLACE TO TELL NOBODY SHIT. Esp since yea, he was w/me, but NO we weren't doin anything. And I mean ANYTHING. So I didn't feel in the least big wrong.2 adults, watching the game,not answering the phone cuz,well, we aint wanna. Now by her abusing her privilege of cell usage she has invaded my right of privacy by demanding information. By also using texts she exposed just how pathetic she really is too. But I'm SURE all that wasn't her intention when she picked up her phone;she just wanted to find her man. And I understood, I did, and like any understanding person I told her what she needed to hear. "Fuck off, you thirsty bitch."
Look, I've been through it with facebook, myspace, text, voicemail...seems the last time I had a real beef was this old lady tryna cut me in line at Walgreens last year. Yea I almost dropkicked the elderly ya'll. Lol what I'm tryna say is there's enough issues out there in the world, and here you are with a person who you love, adore, or is great at fucking, whatever and wanna complain about some cell phone shit.
My top 3 rules for this cell phone mess
1.Stop checking ur mate's phone! What you THINK you wanna know you may not find out.But you will for SURE lose ur mate's trust.
2.Stop jumping to conclusions. You could be missing out on your next wife or husband cuz he/she wasn't able to get back to your text in enough time. i know, you call and call and they say they gon hit you back so wtf is the problem? Look, if you're just sick of trying to contact this person, THEN STOP TRYING TO CONTACT THIS PERSON. They'll call YOU when they NEED you. But you knew that already, cuz that's how ALL PEOPLE ARE.
3.Put the phone down. If every time you get a message or a call, or everytime you don't, you're left stressed, you may need to just chill on the wireless plan altogether. Use the damn thing to make necessary calls only, stop the super social status, enjoy talking to ppl face to face. Invite a muhfucka over, take a walk, read a book do something!
Okay I'm hungry now so I'm ghost. Let's try to find ways to love each other ppl. I use my texts for exposure of infomation. Asks my worms, they get daily text of motivation and job information. I'd rather pay AT&T for that than for more venues of misery. Take care of yourselves, and if you too would like to receive "Daily Word from Da Urlee Byrd" text your name to (773)860-7398. I don't mind puttin my real # out there cuz I have no stalkers, and I have no problem hanging up on a muhfucka I don't like. Ya'll take care and uh, text me sometime ;-)
Lol, smiley face.
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