About two years ago, around this time, my then girlfriend sent me a text message that I didn’t want to see. First, it was a surprise to get a text from her because she didn’t have texting on her phone, so it obviously came from someone else’s cell. The words I didn’t want to see: “We should probably break up”. Something like that, I don’t remember it verbatim, but that’s not the point of my story. The point is that she couldn’t break up with me face-to-face or even with a phone call, she did it with a text message, from her friend’s phone. All I kept thinking from then on was how cheap, childish, and cowardly this was. But, one of my co-workers actually made me think about this tonight. He didn’t bring up the subject in any way, shape, or form, it’s just I really hate him. I’m in the situation myself.
(more…)