Posts Tagged ‘texting’
Sophocles would have been proud…
So I was talking to a co-worker (of sorts), and he related to me the following tale:
“I’m sitting in front of my new 46″ TV, watching the football game in HD. It’s about 5 o’clock. I whip out my phone and text my wife a naughty little message, hinting at what I’m going to do to her later on that night.* Unfortunately, my mom’s number is directly under my wife’s number in the address book, and, well, before I knew it…”
He paused for effect while the idea set in.
“Yeah, the message went out, but not to my wife.”
After some wailing and moaning on the living room floor, he persuaded his wife to call his mother in order to initiate the kind of damage control that only spouses of the fairer sex can handle. Mom claimed to have inadvertently deleted her phone’s Inbox and that she never received the message. Coincidence? Divine providence? A lie perpetrated by a loving mother to protect her son from near-mortal embarrassment? Nobody will ever know.
The bottom line, says my co-worker, is that we know what Freud would’ve called the whole situation:
…wait for it…
That’s right, “Oedipus Text”.
*Upon telling this story to my wife, she interjected “gee, why don’t you ever send me nasty text messages?” Yeesh. You feelin’ me out there, guys?
