Imagine for a moment that you've left something downstairs, something that you need. Now, instead of going to get it or even shouting someone to get it for you, you send a text to your mum to get it for you. What would happen? Your Mum would go absolutely ape s*** at you, that is what would happen. She'd tell you to get off your backside and come and get it yourself. Not to mention, it would be nice to have a spoken conversation with you once in while.
Now reverse this situation........
I'm upstairs, having just got of the phone to my sister, and I'm on the computer (the joys of cordless phones). A while later my mobile vibrates, I ignore it, it's probably just an email. Just over an hour later my mum storms up to bed.
"Did you get my text?"
"No." Seen as I hadn't read it.
My mum had sent me text asking me to bring down the phone so she could call work. She was now angry as it was too late to phone work and "I" hadn't brought the phone down for her. If it was so important why couldn't she have passed air through her vocal cord and called for me to bring it down. Failing that come and get it herself. No, instead she chose to wait it out and rest the full blame on my head because I hadn't read a text.
The youth of today.....scrap that.....the adults are just as bad....if not worse....thanks to extra helpings of hypocrisy.
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