For some reason, my mind does not comprehend text messages as actual forms of communication. If someone sends me a text message, I have to call them back immediately, otherwise it will go to the back of my head and I will ignore it. I don't know what it is about them, but I always seem to forget about them. I'm fine with all other forms of communication, such as phone calls, emails, instant messaging, etc. Hey, I'll even promptly respond to a mailed letter. But when it comes to text messages, I have to concentrate really hard in order to respond.

My favorite example of this is when my roommate needed money from me for the electric bill at the beginning of the summer. Money is sort of an important matter, so I'm going to give him most of the blame on this one. Instead of calling me, as would have been logical, he sent me a text message. It said:

I need the sixty six
bucks jeff. Can you
mail it to [his address]

I got this message in the middle of the day, at work, so by the time I got home, it was completely out of my mind. Every so often, I'll think about it, then laugh at how ridiculous text messaging is.