Holiday= I can text you at midnight!

[AdminAssistant]

I just hate mass-texts on principle. Text me if you actually have something to say. If whatever you have to say is of any importance, call. Anything less than that can be handled in a Facebook message.

[Plaidman]

So no to being text buddy to you Admin?

[AdminAssistant]

Yeah...no. I don't pay for my phone; I'm on my parents' plan. (It's part of our arrangement. They want me to always have a way to call home, and will provide it to me. If I'll call every day. :P) So, I try to be respectful of that expense. I do have texting, but it's not unlimited. I really only use my phone to call home and to talk to boyfriend - 9 times out of 10, the rest of the time I just send FB messages.

[Plaidman]

Ahh. See, sister pays for me and mom. Seeing as she makes... alot and alot of money.

But she has a masters. Getting her PhD now. My mom is a total smartass. Sister got the Smarts. I'm the Ass.

Do I have you on my facebook? I think I do. I'm pretty sure...

[powerboy]

I hate to get the text and or phone calls that wakes me up. I usually have the phone off when i got to bed. but at times, I do forget.

[Boozy]

And of course everybody knows when you work a weird shift and are asleep during the day. Its not like they have their own lives to live and don't spend all their time keeping track of you.

Is the sarcasm really necessary?

Blas has been working the night shift for a long time now. I've never met her in person, and even I know it. Anyone to whom she's close enough to give her cell number would know it too.

[Plaidman]

Even I know that she works grave. She's only posted it about a million times. And it's not like we're super close.

[blas87]

I don't mean to steal the OP's thread or make it all about "Blas the vampire worker", but yes, it's something I do make a big deal about anytime I make an appointment or meet someone new, etc etc.

While I have never and will never expect the rest of the world to conform to my sleep schedule, respect goes both ways. People kick and scream about phone calls from friends (albeit usually drunk, though) at 3 am, well, my coworkers and I kick and scream about phone calls at 3 pm.

I apologize if I have stolen the thunder or made anything about myself here, I just felt the need to jump in and vent. I brought this topic to work with me last night and a bunch of my coworkers had this happen to them as well yesterday. One lady said "My god, some people....it could be freaking Arbor Day and I get 10 texts about it, my phone tweet tweets over and over and I seriously want to just text them back something equally stupid when they are asleep at 3 am."

This topic in particular, I think, is a peeve to a lot of people, even regardless of the time factor. In general, I think it's stupid to mass text people "Happy Easter!" "Happy Turkey Day!" no matter what time it is, but that's just me. They are along the same annoyance lines of texts that say "Sup?" or those annoying chain "Send this to 10 people or a clown will kill your mother in her sleep" and chain sex jokes.

[McDreidel09]

Don't worry big sis. You aren't stealing from me.

As for texting at night, if it is an emergency, I prefer a call. Not a text. I have told my friends not to text or call me after ten pm unless it is an emergency or if I get a hold of them first.

My rule on holiday texting is this: if the person texts me first about the holiday, I will text them back. I tend to call or leave something on my facebook. The only exception to this rule is my dad because he is usually working and he lives in FL, so calling wouldn't be much of an option. On people's birthdays, I will leave a text, but not until noon. I don't call or text people until noon,unless I know for sure that they are up.

[Giggle Goose]

I think it's kinda cool when people text me on my birthday *coughAPRIL26*cough*cough* at midnight, but for Easter? Get a life. I don't remember staying up all night waiting for Easter or Valentine's or St. Paddy's or whatever day to happen at 12am. Even when I was little and wanted to wait for Santa. lol.

Last night's phone call from my brother telling me that there was a 7.2 quake in California where my dad and Nana live? Reasons like that are why I have a phone on 24/7.

[McDreidel09]

*coughIdon'thaveyournumbercough*

[Fryk]

I think it's kinda cool when people text me on my birthday *coughAPRIL26*cough*cough*

I'd send you a cake, but I don't know where you live. So instead, I'll eat one in your honor.

And I wanna be someone's text buddy. It sounds so coooooooool!

[Plaidman]

I got lots of text buddies. If ya want to be my text buddy, that be ok with me

[HYHYBT]

First off, why the hell are you awake at 8am on a Friday when you are 20+ years old and the youngest member of your family?

Well, just as New Year's is celebrated by staying up late, Easter is often celebrated by getting up early. Sunrise service was at 7:00, over by 7:30 and immediately followed by breakfast at the church; had I been the sort to send "Happy Easter" text messages to everybody I know in the first place, 8:00 would have been right about the time. But I prefer email for that sort of thing, and then people will get the message whenever they feel like it.

[Greenday]

Well, just as New Year's is celebrated by staying up late, Easter is often celebrated by getting up early. Sunrise service was at 7:00, over by 7:30 and immediately followed by breakfast at the church; had I been the sort to send "Happy Easter" text messages to everybody I know in the first place, 8:00 would have been right about the time. But I prefer email for that sort of thing, and then people will get the message whenever they feel like it.

That's all well and good except all of my friends know I don't go to church except for Christmas and Christmas ONLY.