A Silly Six!

Keith's Ramblings

For Six Sentence Stories where the given word is Text.

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I got a text from a mate on Monday, he thinks he’s like cool man, it just said ‘FAD 2MOZ’, so I texted back ‘WHAT?’

He replied ‘FANCY A DRINK TOMORROW’, which I understood, but tomorrow was Tuesday and I  wasn’t  free, so trying to be clever I texted back HA WTF?, meaning ‘how about Wednesday Thursday or Friday?’

His reply was nonsensical, it just said UCMU, goodness knows what that means I thought then I had an idea, so I googled ‘text speak’ and found a sort of online texter’s dictionary and suddenly I could read it; apparently, he’d said ‘you crack me up’!

I didn’t understand what I’d said that had amused him, so I looked up WTF in my new dictionary and – well – I won’t spell out what I’d inadvertently written!

I wrote out my three free days in proper English, followed by IHA which I now know to mean  ‘I hate acronyms’ (what a strange thing to abbreviate!)  and we arranged to GAB (get a beer) THURSDAY.

A couple of friends joined us in the pub and whilst sitting around the table, I got a bit vocal about my dislike of texting only to notice that our two companions were actually texting each other whilst joining in our conversation, ‘ multi-tasking’ one explained, then he stood up, said ‘G4AP’ and wandered off to the toilet!

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Thanks to Denise at GirlieOnTheEdge for hosting.

In a matter of hours I’ll be heading down to Southern Italy and Sicily for a while, so I appologise, dear reader, if I don’t  get to visit or commment upon your Six.

26 thoughts on “A Silly Six!”

  2. Sadje's avatar Sadje Oct 12, 2023 / 10:43

    Haha! I can’t understand these abbreviations either. Have a wonderful time in Italy

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  4. clark's avatar clark Oct 12, 2023 / 11:32

    YIWM!

    seriously, your Six had me grinning like a YEG on a TUSAD (akk Night!)

    fun

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  5. Maria Michaela's avatar Maria Michaela Oct 12, 2023 / 12:35

    Oh I hate abbreviations too! Haha I’d probably be scratching my head thinking, is this a coded message? 😂

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  7. Patricia's avatar Patricia Oct 12, 2023 / 16:48

    It’s like there has been a whole new language added to the world. I have enough to keep up with plain old English.

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  8. D. Avery @shiftnshake's avatar D. Avery @shiftnshake Oct 12, 2023 / 18:15

    A resonant Six. I loathe the acronyms (and get confused by them). I do not approve of the “multitasking” when one should be present with the live humans. (okay, sometimes I’ve done it) If we were allowed a seventh sentence perhaps someone in the Six (now Seven) would have photographed their pub food and sent it via text. I was going to sign off with a clever bunch of letters but thought better of it- it could mean something quite unintended

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  10. 1renrising's avatar ren Oct 12, 2023 / 22:06

    this was funny! and, ITIWGTMTLIL (i thought i was going to miss the lady in leopard), but nope, this was just as great. 🙂

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  11. messymimi's meanderings's avatar messymimi's meanderings Oct 13, 2023 / 00:28

    Heeheehee! I’d be looking up all the acronyms, too. Almost all of my texting is to people older than I am who know even less about it!

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  13. Nicole Horlings's avatar Nicole Horlings Oct 14, 2023 / 19:22

    Great story, Keith! I used more acronyms when I was younger – a teen with my cool slide out keyboard phone – but I really don’t use them too much these days. I can type fast enough on my smart phone that I can type out words in full, nor am I sneakily texting during class anymore.

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  15. Prats's avatar Prats Oct 19, 2023 / 17:56

    haha .i feel your pain for acronyms !

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