If you send me more than three texts in a row, I'm calling your ass to sort things out.
I don't want to be repeatedly distracted from real life. It's annoying.
this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2024
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My wife plays way too many video games at work apparently. Or is this just a guy thing?
Whenever someone sends me an important message and I don't read/respond in time, they call to get my attention so I can do so. My ex used to get mad at me for "ignoring" her for 2h or more and would call. I was just busy doing whatever and ignoring the phone as usual.
I hate that. Also in a business setting. By definition a message (be it text, email, whatever) is not urgent. They might be important and of course you shouldn't leave them unread for days, but for urgency there's calls.
I always perceive an IM as high but not immediate importance, an email as "get to it when you can", and phone call as immediate.
The older people I work with tend to call for email level things.
Oh I'm busy doing some other aspect of my life. Might possibly be that I'm working, at my job, which by the way was one of your requirements on the dating profile.
Not absolutely everything in my life is about video games.
It's almost as if it's a joke.
Oh, yeah, I forgot that kind of humor where it sounds exactly like a bad take.
Here you go:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedic_device
Looks like a solid example of Misdirection and Understatement combined.
(This comment is also an example of Double Entendre.)
For me it's not video games, but adequacy. I found out that if I'm tired, I behave like shit and may respond with some gibberish
For an average guy, you'd be lucky to get more than one convo.
As another user mentioned, there are bigger priorities at the moment on top of texting-- like you're working. And personally, I don't like texting especially with crappy autocorrect of phones. I prefer speaking in person.
But what do women do when they respond somewhere in between 4 hours to 30 days?
Actual games. Obviously I'm generalizing here and that isn't fair, but there are times when I feel like my wife is a Great Wife Buffalo who has never had the patience for that bullshit. She's very direct when communicating.
If you want immediate responses, CALL THEM.
Ew. Call? Like on a phone?
Yeah, it's weird that we've relegated this amazing technology that lets you communicate by voice (and now video) to the back burner in favor of a far more cumbersome one that removes so much context in terms of tone.
I hate the ringing of a phone, so I think it is a very acceptable level of cumbersome.
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