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  • #1

    sign of the times?

    Ok. My 11 year old daughter is out of school for Thanksgiving so I let her have a friend stay overnight (a girl of course).

    This morning I see them sitting on opposite ends of the couch TEXTING EACH OTHER!

    WTF?
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    Originally posted by XSokieSPECIAL View Post
    Ok. My 11 year old daughter is out of school for Thanksgiving so I let her have a friend stay overnight (a girl of course).
    This morning I see them sitting on opposite ends of the couch TEXTING EACH OTHER!
    WTF?
    Hi Greg,
    back when I was 11 it was two tin cans joined by a tight string. Only the technology has changed, not the mindset.
    Fred Hill, S'toon
    XS11SG with Spirit of America sidecar
    "The Flying Pumpkin"

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    • #3
      Well, how long is the couch?

      Seriously though, I'd say they were having a "conversation" that you weren't meant to hear.
      I know this, because Tyler knows this.

      1980 SG
      3J6 003509
      Kerker 4-1 (sans baffles)
      Fuse Block Upgrade
      Mike's XS Green Coils
      Pods w/Homemade Velocity Stacks

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      • #4
        Yeah, pretty soon we will lose vocal chords (Not needed) and start growing extra fingers to be able to type and text faster. All except neanderthals like me... who types with two fingers still.. lol.

        It's possible they didn't want you to hear them if they spoke.. so they had to secretly text... which makes me think it was about you.

        "Does your dad ALWAYS smell like that in the mornings?"

        "Did you see what he was scratching!?"

        "Does he ALWAYS drink that much at night?"

        "OMG!!! Did you hear your dad snoring last night?"


        Tod
        Last edited by trbig; 11-25-2009, 10:37 AM.
        Try your hardest to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are.

        You can live to be 100, as long as you give up everything that would make you want to live to be 100!

        Current bikes:
        '06 Suzuki DR650
        *'82 XJ1100 with the 1179 kit. "Mad Maxim"
        '82 XJ1100 Completely stock fixer-upper
        '82 XJ1100 Bagger fixer-upper
        '82 XJ1100 Motor/frame and lots of boxes of parts
        '82 XJ1100 Parts bike
        '81 XS1100 Special
        '81 YZ250
        '80 XS850 Special
        '80 XR100
        *Crashed/Totalled, still own

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        • #5
          Originally posted by trbig View Post
          Yeah, pretty soon we will lose vocal chords (Not needed) and start growing extra fingers to be able to type and text faster. All except neanderthals like me... who types with two fingers still.. lol.

          It's possible they didn't want you to hear them if they spoke.. so they had to secretly text... which makes me think it was about you.

          "Does your dad ALWAYS smell like that in the mornings?"

          "Did you see what he was scratching!?"

          "Does he ALWAYS drink that much at night?"

          "OMG!!! Did you hear your dad snoring last night?"


          Tod
          THAT'S IT THE PHONE IS OUTTA HERE!

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          • #6
            Originally posted by XSokieSPECIAL View Post
            Ok. My 11 year old daughter is out of school for Thanksgiving so I let her have a friend stay overnight (a girl of course).

            This morning I see them sitting on opposite ends of the couch TEXTING EACH OTHER!

            WTF?


            LMAO!!!! Why, cause I have a daughter, too...

            Just wait 'til they're H.S. Seniors... then it really gets fun...
            '82 XJ1100J Maxim (has been sold.)

            '79 F "Time Machine"... oh yeah, Baby.... (Sold back to Maximan)

            2011 Kaw Concours 14 ABS

            In the warden's words from Cool Hand Luke;
            "What we have here is a failure to communicate."

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            • #7
              Originally posted by egleaves View Post
              seriously though, i'd say they were having a "conversation" that you weren't meant to hear.
              bingo!!!!!
              Ich habe dich nicht gefragt.

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              • #8
                How did we live without cell phones???
                http://www.myspace.com/i_give_you_power

                1980 XS11 Special - chopped, dropped and OCTY is still installed - NOW IT'S FOR SALE! $1,800 OBO


                Famous Myspace quote:

                "Don't mess with TEXAS! It's not nice to pick on retards."

                It's funny because I am from TEXAS!

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                • #9
                  It's only going to get worse. My daughter who is 21 sends and receives well over a 100 test messages a day. It's like she never talks her phone any more. It's all text messaging.
                  Think about how many text messages would need to go back and forth for 2 girls to have a conversation as if they were chatting on the phone. Relationships are becoming less and less personal every year with this stuff. It's scares me.

                  Rob
                  KEEP THE RUBBER SIDE DOWN

                  1978 XS1100E Modified
                  1978 XS500E
                  1979 XS1100F Restored
                  1980 XS1100 SG
                  1981 Suzuki GS1100
                  1983 Suzuki GS750S Katana
                  1983 Honda CB900 Custom

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                  • #10
                    My boss texts me more than he calls me and I usually call him back to answer him which I don't think he likes. It just takes me longer to text it than to just tell him.
                    http://www.myspace.com/i_give_you_power

                    1980 XS11 Special - chopped, dropped and OCTY is still installed - NOW IT'S FOR SALE! $1,800 OBO


                    Famous Myspace quote:

                    "Don't mess with TEXAS! It's not nice to pick on retards."

                    It's funny because I am from TEXAS!

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                    • #11
                      That is all personality. I work in a field filled with introverted personalities, engineering. Most engineers prefer to be locked in a room with their thoughts and only bothered for food or sleep. I am a bit of a mix and more extroverted, so I like to talk, just ask the SWOXS folks. So I call people instead of texting or emailing. My boss is more of a sales type and he calls for anything.
                      Life is what happens while your planning everything else!

                      When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

                      81 XS1100 Special - Humpty Dumpty
                      80 XS1100 Special - Project Resurrection


                      Previously owned
                      93 GSX600F
                      80 XS1100 Special - Ruby
                      81 XS1100 Special
                      81 CB750 C
                      80 CB750 C
                      78 XS750

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                      • #12
                        I have 4 women in my life.1 wife and 3 grown daughters.They text back and forth daily and sometimes I communicate with my daughters by asking my wife to text them.Once in a while they actually use the phone to talk to someone.

                        Terry
                        1980 special (Phyllis)
                        1196 10.5 to 1 kit,megacycle cams,shaved head,dynojet carb kit,ported intake and exhaust,mac 4 into 1 exhaust,drilled rotors,ss brake lines,pods,mikes xs green coils,iridium plugs,led lights,throttle lock,progressive shocks,oil cooler,ajustable cam gears,HD valve springs,Vmax tensioner mod

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                        • #13
                          Interestingly enough, I am sitting in a house with no electricity (from the power company or a generator, just batteries) and my wife is texting my doughter at her friends house my son is playing DS and I am on the internet by virtue of an air card and laptop.
                          Life is what happens while your planning everything else!

                          When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

                          81 XS1100 Special - Humpty Dumpty
                          80 XS1100 Special - Project Resurrection


                          Previously owned
                          93 GSX600F
                          80 XS1100 Special - Ruby
                          81 XS1100 Special
                          81 CB750 C
                          80 CB750 C
                          78 XS750

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by DGXSER View Post
                            Interestingly enough, I am sitting in a house with no electricity (from the power company or a generator, just batteries) and my wife is texting my doughter at her friends house my son is playing DS and I am on the internet by virtue of an air card and laptop.
                            Sign of the times.

                            We wouldn't even have thought it possible not that long ago.

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                            • #15
                              Interestingly enough, I am sitting in a house with no electricity (from the power company or a generator, just batteries)

                              Trade in the DS and computer and pay your electric bills, ya bum!


                              Tod
                              Try your hardest to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are.

                              You can live to be 100, as long as you give up everything that would make you want to live to be 100!

                              Current bikes:
                              '06 Suzuki DR650
                              *'82 XJ1100 with the 1179 kit. "Mad Maxim"
                              '82 XJ1100 Completely stock fixer-upper
                              '82 XJ1100 Bagger fixer-upper
                              '82 XJ1100 Motor/frame and lots of boxes of parts
                              '82 XJ1100 Parts bike
                              '81 XS1100 Special
                              '81 YZ250
                              '80 XS850 Special
                              '80 XR100
                              *Crashed/Totalled, still own

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