I recently found a website using StumbleUpon that has been cracking me up. It is called WhenParentsText and people send in the random conversations they have with their parents via text message. Some parents know how to text message and some are just winging it, and it is funny.
My parents just purchased a text message plan on their phones and barely use it, unlike me, who sent and received 4,116 texts last month. (In my defense, it was a busy month.) It used to cost them 25 cents to send or receive a text message, so every time I sent them a message they would yell at me for spending their money.
Now, my mother just texts her friend from work and my father barely uses it at all. They are not familiar with the tool. So, when I read the text messages that are posted on WhenParentsText I hear my mother's and father's voices, and then I laugh hysterically. I think this is exactly how it will be when they start to text me. I cannot wait for the day that they send me something ridiculous so I can submit it to be published.
Some of the funniest texts on WhenParentsText include:
ME: I have to say mom, that wasn’t your best outfit yesterday.
MOM: Yeah well at least I’m married and have 4 kids…and a JOB. Don’t take your jealousy out on me.
Mom: Owls
Me: Huh?
Mom: I didn’t text that. Just got out of the shower. My phone is haunted :-(
Mom: Your check just got here in the mail. What should I do with it?
Me: What check?
Mom: Just kidding. Dad told me to write that if I wanted a response. We miss you!
Me: Miss you
Dad: HI HONEY NICE TO SEE YOUR VOICE
I am telling you, it is hysterical. So hysterical that I have had to wipe tears from my face a few times from laughing so hard. And, there are so many Harry Potter references that I am afraid that my mother is texting other people's children...
So, give WhenParentsText a visit and let me know if you are overcome with laughter.
My parents just purchased a text message plan on their phones and barely use it, unlike me, who sent and received 4,116 texts last month. (In my defense, it was a busy month.) It used to cost them 25 cents to send or receive a text message, so every time I sent them a message they would yell at me for spending their money.
Now, my mother just texts her friend from work and my father barely uses it at all. They are not familiar with the tool. So, when I read the text messages that are posted on WhenParentsText I hear my mother's and father's voices, and then I laugh hysterically. I think this is exactly how it will be when they start to text me. I cannot wait for the day that they send me something ridiculous so I can submit it to be published.
Some of the funniest texts on WhenParentsText include:
ME: I have to say mom, that wasn’t your best outfit yesterday.
MOM: Yeah well at least I’m married and have 4 kids…and a JOB. Don’t take your jealousy out on me.
Mom: Owls
Me: Huh?
Mom: I didn’t text that. Just got out of the shower. My phone is haunted :-(
Mom: Your check just got here in the mail. What should I do with it?
Me: What check?
Mom: Just kidding. Dad told me to write that if I wanted a response. We miss you!
Me: Miss you
Dad: HI HONEY NICE TO SEE YOUR VOICE
I am telling you, it is hysterical. So hysterical that I have had to wipe tears from my face a few times from laughing so hard. And, there are so many Harry Potter references that I am afraid that my mother is texting other people's children...
So, give WhenParentsText a visit and let me know if you are overcome with laughter.
