Idiot...don't text during class!

[Jennasis]

So I'm sitting here in my house reading the DIS when my cell phone alerts me that I have a text. It went something like this:

555-1234: "Hahahahahahahahaha!!"

Me: Who is this??

555-1234: "Nancy...hahahahahaha!!"

Me: Nancy who???

555-1234: "Look across the damn classroom idiot!"

Me: You're texting the wrong DAMN number, idiot. I have no idea who you are."

"Nancy" hasn't sent me a follow up. I'm tempted to send her a "maybe you should be paying attention to the teacher." but I think I'll let sleeping dogs etc etc. How dumb do you have to be to A) send a text to the wrong number and B) continue sending said texts even when you get responses from said wrong number with the display on your phone clearly showing a number other than the one you wish to contact!

Geesh.

 

[alexandria674]

Nancy hasn't sent you another reply so it would make no sense for you to reply back. By the way, besides emergency situations, try not to answer text messages in class. p.s. By the way, just re-read the post sorry, been up all night. No need to jump down a person's throat for a misread.

 

[Jennasis]

Nancy hasn't sent you another reply so it would make no sense for you to reply back. By the way, besides emergency situations, I think you should put your phone in your bag and pay attention in class then after class if there is a wayward text, answer it.

Huh? Did you read my post?? I'M NOT IN CLASS. I'm at home...in my house... This "Nancy" person is apparently in a classroom somewhere trying to text somebody on the other side of the room and put in the wrong number and sent it to me.

 

[mom2kazkids]

Nancy hasn't sent you another reply so it would make no sense for you to reply back. By the way, besides emergency situations, I think you should put your phone in your bag and pay attention in class then after class if there is a wayward text, answer it.

Hello OP is at HOME, not in school.

 

[AKBAFB]

Nice. There you are DISing surfweb and you get a random wrong number text from some Idiot who tells you that she is in class, apparently trying to distract her classmates. Love it.

And I get irritated when someone I know interrupts my DIS time! (DAMN boss!)

Oh wait, is it worse to be texting during class, or DISing during work?

 

[Jennasis]

Nice. There you are DISing surfweb and you get a random wrong number text from some Idiot who tells you that she is in class, apparently trying to distract her classmates. Love it.

And I get irritated when someone I know interrupts my DIS time! (DAMN boss!)

Oh wait, is it worse to be texting during class, or DISing during work?

Definitely worse in class!

 

[GoofyforDisney3]

Nice. There you are DISing surfweb and you get a random wrong number text from some Idiot who tells you that she is in class, apparently trying to distract her classmates. Love it.

And I get irritated when someone I know interrupts my DIS time! (DAMN boss!)

Oh wait, is it worse to be texting during class, or DISing during work?

I hope not because I would be in major trouble this week.

 

[SCHBR'smom]

Nice. There you are DISing surfweb and you get a random wrong number text from some Idiot who tells you that she is in class, apparently trying to distract her classmates. Love it.

And I get irritated when someone I know interrupts my DIS time! (DAMN boss!)

Oh wait, is it worse to be texting during class, or DISing during work?

My kids interupt my DIS time. See, the baby is crying right now. Better go get her

 

[splashmtnfan]

My kids interupt my DIS time. See, the baby is crying right now. Better go get her

You are funny! Yea, better go check the baby! Which one? & why does your one year old have a stirring pot icon?


What part of Texas?

 

[SCHBR'smom]

You are funny! Yea, better go check the baby! Which one? & why does your one year old have a stirring pot icon?


What part of Texas?

Central Texas, a little east of Austin

Ah, the stirring pot, we think she practices black magic. I shut her out of a room so I could the person I was talking to on the phone. Well, she went to her brother's room and found a card fom one of his toy cars and slipped it under the door to me. It was green with an 8 ball and a skull on it. It as like she gave me a death card. Then she laid down in front of the door. She whispered something quietly to DH then wiped a baby doll across his forehead. And the best one, we were playing a joke on my BiL for payback, so I took a baby doll and drew a goatee on it (he has one). Then took a picture of her holding it with a pin in its stomach (just a joke, he gave me a headstone for a headboard). Well, he had a stomach bug that whole afternoon. I'm glad she's on my side. But I do try to keep her away from cracks, I don't want a broken back.



sorry to hijack the thread, I hate it when people call and keep talking like they know you, but I've never gotten a text like that

 

[MushyMushy]

I have gotten texts from my own kids before and I'll text back, "Stop texting in school!!!!" My daughter texted back once a little while later, "Thanks a lot mom, the teacher heard my phone vibrate."

Sorry, I thought it was funny.

At our schools, I have told them to go ahead and text or call me if they're sick. The nurses at the middle school and elementary school won't send them home with fevers, vomiting, or any other normal ailment that it would make sense to send them home for (and this is a battle parents have been fighting for years). I'm prepared to dish out consequences if they abuse it, but so far they haven't (and it's now DS's last day of school EVER so no more worries there ). DD got her phone taken away from her a week or so ago because she let a sick friend text her mom. Apparently this kid was sick enough to go to the doctor, but when the principal asked how the mom knew to come get her, the mother ratted my daughter out.

No good deed goes unpunished.

Anyway, sorry to go off your topic.

 

[kirbsam]

Nancy hasn't sent you another reply so it would make no sense for you to reply back. By the way, besides emergency situations, try not to answer text messages in class. p.s. By the way, just re-read the post sorry, been up all night. No need to jump down a person's throat for a misread.

that was one serious misread. and your initial reply was just as snarky.

 

[Disneyland_Mama]

Central Texas, a little east of Austin

Ah, the stirring pot, we think she practices black magic. I shut her out of a room so I could the person I was talking to on the phone. Well, she went to her brother's room and found a card fom one of his toy cars and slipped it under the door to me. It was green with an 8 ball and a skull on it. It as like she gave me a death card. Then she laid down in front of the door. She whispered something quietly to DH then wiped a baby doll across his forehead. And the best one, we were playing a joke on my BiL for payback, so I took a baby doll and drew a goatee on it (he has one). Then took a picture of her holding it with a pin in its stomach (just a joke, he gave me a headstone for a headboard). Well, he had a stomach bug that whole afternoon. I'm glad she's on my side. But I do try to keep her away from cracks, I don't want a broken back.

 

[Mom2Nick]

Nancy hasn't sent you another reply so it would make no sense for you to reply back. By the way, besides emergency situations, try not to answer text messages in class. p.s. By the way, just re-read the post sorry, been up all night. No need to jump down a person's throat for a misread.

You made a snotty comment which was based on your own mistake and you're getting mad at people that responded to you with the same tone you used?? Only on the DIS

 

[Buckalew11]

Oh wait, is it worse to be texting during class, or DISing during work?

Hmm... I actually think DISing at work would be worse. After all, one is getting paid to do a job, not surfing the DIS.
I know my clients would not be happy if I needed to stop and check my DIS thread while I was supposed to be making them beautiful! And since they are paying me just like a boss would, I'd think most people would find that wrong as they were sitting there waiting for me to finish their haircut.

Texting in school is not good either but kids around here do it all the time.

 

[laurie31]

Hmm... I actually think DISing at work would be worse. After all, one is getting paid to do a job, not surfing the DIS.
I know my clients would not be happy if I needed to stop and check my DIS thread while I was supposed to be making them beautiful! And since they are paying me just like a boss would, I'd think most people would find that wrong as they were sitting there waiting for me to finish their haircut.

Texting in school is not good either but kids around here do it all the time.

It depends on your job. For example, a firefighter is being paid to be AVAILABLE. He (or she) sits in the fire station, talking, playing cards, watching tv, or whatever else firefighters do while hanging out at the firestation. (I know, they also care for the equipment and other job-related things, too). If there is a fire, the activity is immediately discarded and in seconds the truck is on its way to the emergency. If you have a job like this, where you are there to handle something IF it happens, then you have to do *something* while you're sitting around being available

ETA - If I had been the OP, my problem would have been more that the texter was too ditsy to notice the number she's texting is wrong, and then insulting a total stranger, than that she was texting during class. "Nancy" called the OP an idiot...Maybe it takes one to know one

 

[Jennasis]

It depends on your job. For example, a firefighter is being paid to be AVAILABLE. He (or she) sits in the fire station, talking, playing cards, watching tv, or whatever else firefighters do while hanging out at the firestation. (I know, they also care for the equipment and other job-related things, too). If there is a fire, the activity is immediately discarded and in seconds the truck is on its way to the emergency. If you have a job like this, where you are there to handle something IF it happens, then you have to do *something* while you're sitting around being available

ETA - If I had been the OP, my problem would have been more that the texter was too ditsy to notice the number she's texting is wrong, and then insulting a total stranger, than that she was texting during class. "Nancy" called the OP an idiot...Maybe it takes one to know one ;)

I like to think of it as fighting fire with fire.




As for the poster who misread my post...no harm no foul. s'ok!

 

[lovetoscrap]

This advice goes for the adults too! I subbed today and the classroom aide was also a sub. I was giving a major test to the kids and she pulls out her phone and starts texting. It might not have been bad but her phone was set to beep with each keystroke. beep-beep-beep-beep Totally disrupted the class! I got them settled back down and on task and her phone rang!

I really couldn't believe a grown woman didn't have the sense to realize this was a bad idea. She could have gone into the hall way if she needed to take care of something right away, not disrupt the class.

 

[Buckalew11]

It depends on your job. For example, a firefighter is being paid to be AVAILABLE. He (or she) sits in the fire station, talking, playing cards, watching tv, or whatever else firefighters do while hanging out at the firestation. (I know, they also care for the equipment and other job-related things, too). If there is a fire, the activity is immediately discarded and in seconds the truck is on its way to the emergency. If you have a job like this, where you are there to handle something IF it happens, then you have to do *something* while you're sitting around being available

'Tis true, 'tis true. I'll give you that!! My DH is a FF/paramedic and while he doesn't do the internet thing at work, I'm sure some others do. Too funny you'd pick FF to give as an example. I DIS at work but only between clients or lunchtime, of course. I'm my own boss though. I would not surf if I worked for someone else no matter what.

 

[agnes!]

This advice goes for the adults too! I subbed today and the classroom aide was also a sub. I was giving a major test to the kids and she pulls out her phone and starts texting. It might not have been bad but her phone was set to beep with each keystroke. beep-beep-beep-beep Totally disrupted the class! I got them settled back down and on task and her phone rang!

I really couldn't believe a grown woman didn't have the sense to realize this was a bad idea. She could have gone into the hall way if she needed to take care of something right away, not disrupt the class.

Did you take her phone away? If the kids can't have their phones on during class-time , then the supposed adults shouldn't be able to do it either.

I think I would have taken her phone away or sent her to the principal's office . If she's texting/talking on the phone during class, I think the administration needs to know so they won't call her in to work (unless they're desperate *and* she turns her phone off).

agnes!