Ok, you know what really bugs me? People not responding to text, email, or any kind of message that was obviously written by a human being who expects a response. Yes, I think everyone knows that really bugs me by now, since I have sent out so many pointed emails, many of which including the phrase ‘FELICIA CHAIN, THAT MEANS YOU’. No, this post is not directed at Felicia Chain, though she certainly does not respond promptly, or sometimes, at all. And yes, I am aware that I myself am not the best of repliers, especially to messages that have a lot of emoticons and abbreviations in them.

But if someone asks you a question, what do you do?

You ANSWER it.

I am so sick of texting people, or worse, people texting me, and then not getting a reply for a day or more. It is especially irritating when the other person is the one who wants you to do something for them. I mean, this is just as bad as, or even worse than my mother, who only turns on her phone to call people when she wants something. Because weren’t YOU the one who wanted something in the first place? What do you expect, me falling over myself texting, ‘I’ll do it! I’ll do it! text me back!’?

You know, some of us may have lives and schedules and personal planners where we have to fill in dates and appointments. I did say ‘may’. I do have a personal planner with a few appointments written down in it. Just a few? Well, maybe I would have more if people WOULD JUST REPLY THE DAMN MESSAGE SO I CAN WRITE IT DOWN AND ARRANGE OTHER THINGS.

How long does it take you to text anyway? Obviously, God gave us opposable thumbs so that we could go through several thousands worth of years of evolution to TEXT and TYPE, since, God forbid, no one actually TALKS to anyone else any more.

No, what do people do when you’re having lunch or dinner with them? They whip out their damn phones and text someone else. Then you wonder what important things this other person must be saying, because it took you several days to arrange this lunch or dinner with the person whose hairline you are currently facing. Does this mean that every text I type should start with ‘I BROKE UP WITH SO AND SO!!!!’ or ‘I HAD A ONE NIGHT STAND WITH SO AND SO!!!!!’ or ‘I’M PREGNANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!’?

Don’t get me started on emoticons and punctuation marks that are used to denote or replace actual emotions today. Or on unnecessary drama. Maybe there wouldn’t BE drama if you people didn’t do STUPID THINGS in the first place.

The trouble with this is that these people who piss you off so much are actually really, really, really nice people in person, so you cannot tell them you are pissed at them, or you forget you are pissed at them. And then in the month that you don’t see them you get pissed at them again, because that is how long it takes for them to respond to a text.

And don’t even get me started on Facebook.

I hate this generation, where everyone takes everything and everyone else completely for granted. But it doesn’t matter, because no one is going to read this, since everyone is too busy changing their status updates or tweeting, indoors or out. That’s what we are today, completely self-absorbed narcissists, who think other people give a shit about what we think.