You want to have a good laugh. You know how young people (and old people too) use text messaging?? I guess there's a good reason for this, but I haven't found one yet.

Well, over the summer I was on my friend's porch and two neighbors were sitting right in front of us. They both had something called a Sidekick and they were as quiet as mice.

I looked at them and I said 'what are you two up to?" and I was given a look as if to say "are you serious?" and I said: "no really, what are you doing? and they said "text messaging" and I said "why on earth would you do that when you are standing right in front of each other??"

I got that look again!!!

Puleeeezze.

Today, I went to T Mobile to look at pre-paid phones. Mine is an old piece of $20 junk and it doesn't flip so I keep using it like a walkie talkie and I want a phone that acts like a phone. So there are a bunch of phones right in front of me that SLIDE UP. I ask the man "how do you use this as a phone?" and again, I get this look. I said 'well, it obviously doesn't flip open like a phone, so what happens when it slides? does that make it into a phone". I get this look like "are you for real? and the guy says; ''well it's a phone, you use it like a phone". I quietly enunciate to him (he must have been all of 21 years old), I say: "pick this up and show me how you would make a phone call, where would you speak into and where would you listen from?" and the guy (like a light bulb went off in his head), looks at me and says "Oh, you want to know how it works as a phone?"

He pointed to a teeny tiny hole on the bottom and said 'here's the microphone, you just hold the other end to your ear, that's the receiver", "and you talk into the microphone". then he gets all excited, and says "But this is the neat part about this, and the whole thing slid up and turned from 3 inches into 6 inches and he is showing me a keyboard and saying "oh, you can go on the internet and do email and text, etc.etc."

I just looked at him and deadpanned: 'all I want is a flip phone, no text, no internet, no e-mail, no keyboard". He looked deflated.

I went home and picked up my landline and make a phone call.

But I do see the day when Melody will be buying a blue tooth and tapping my ear. I can barely wait for that day. lol