I went to my cell phone account and turned texting off. I told my nieces (the only ones doing it) "If you've got time to type you've got time to talk."

So now they call me, lol.

BTW (oops) is anyone besides me old enough to remember the "Speedwriting" ads from the 1960s? It was a course that was aimed at stenographers as an easier dictation method than "Shorthand". They advertised on matchbooks and in magazines and it went something like this:

If u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb wth bttr py.

Look familiar?

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy