Texting

In today's world, almost everyone has unlimited texting. And no wonder. Teenagers don't know how to communicate without it. They can't talk, write or put together a complete sentence. They don't know what punctuation is, can't spell and to decipher their texts you need a dictionary (only not the one Webster wrote). I'm convinced the only reason kids go to school anymore is to get them out of their parent's hair. Oh, and to socialize. Because, apparently, that's the most important part of education. (So we homeschoolers are told...) But we won't go into how sitting across the table from one another and texting is NOT socializing.

When we first got texting at work my boss got me 250 texts a month. That lasted a month before I got unlimited. I mean, I use 10% of that or more on a Monday morning alone. You would think I'm a texting guru if you walked into the office first thing Monday. I kid you not that I spend the first hour doing little but texting: asking the on-call nurse to clarify something, making sure the aides got info on their patients from the weekend, med refills, answering the nurses as they text me questions, and then answering all the responses to the texts I sent out. It was about 9:15 this morning before I got started on my regular work.

Never thought I'd be that "in-to" texting. And I'm not. I don't do as much on my personal phone - not by half. And it's almost a riot to think we do that much texting at work after it took a good month to get all these "old" nurses educated in the use of their phones. (And I still get "tech" questions every other week or so.) But I'll tell you this much: our communication is up by 200%. In fact, we may be over-communicative. But better we're all clear on a thing than something gets missed entirely. After all, that's what unlimited texting is for, right?