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03.10.09 URban Legend Column: Textual Feeling

" U want 2 do dinner 2nite?" Reads the text Mark shows me while we're waiting in line at the quiet post office. I'm sending off a long overdue wedding gift and he just got asked out on a first date... via text.

"Wait, he asked you out on a first date through a text message?" I whisper-yell to him in line. A woman wearing a puffy down coat turns around to look at us. She smells like Pine-Sol.

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Comments

+ the other Chuck says...

At least it isn't a sext message.

The asker may be shy. I think it's sweet.

+ Nora says...

I agree with you Byron, first date question: over phone. I would even settle for email, but text is a tad lazier if you ask me.

I am fine with texts when appropriate (loud crowds and etc) but other times? Give me a card. Give me a real hug.

I'm trying to reconnect with the "old fashioned" communication as of late.

Great article as usual!

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