I use my cell phone as my personal assistant--I write down everything I need to do the moment I think of it because I know I’ll forget it immediately otherwise. It’s also helpful since I can set an alarm to startle me into remembering things, too. Because typing in text is such a pain in the neck on a little bitty not-smart phone (I loathe text messages, just so’s you know. Loathe, despise, and abhor.) I use the nifty little text recognition feature--you know, where you begin typing in a word and it tries to guess what you’re writing as you go along. Sometimes it still can’t figure out what you mean by the time you get to the end of a word and makes a wild stab--often with highly amusing results.
For example, the other day I was writing an impromptu shopping list, and when I tried to add “deodorant,” what my phone came up with was demenpant. Demenpant?! Ok, so it’s not really demon pants, but it was close enough to make me laugh out loud. I do realize that 98 percent of the rest of humanity is not as easily entertained as I am, but this next one may amuse just a few of you. My very favorite misinterpreted spelling is when I’m writing in my pulmonologist appointments, which I have to do fairly frequently. The doctor’s name is Dr. Spitz, but my phone insists, every single time, that I must be scheduling an appointment to see Dr. Privy.
My EX and I used to text ALL the time for EVERYTHING, BTW according to Zack that nifty feature is called Predicative Text. Anyways we were really getting into craft beer so beer was the main subject of our texts, but I would never remember to change the word from ADDS to BEER.So my message read "Please pick up some ADDS tonight" or "I just found that one ADDS we wanted" I'm such a retard!
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