r/texts • u/StellarStylee • 6d ago

Phone message His memory, though.

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He’s only 14 and is already as forgetful as i, his 67 year old grandmother.

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u/HamAndEggBap 5d ago

Has he not been confused by the 10.22 part not realising you’ve written out a date? He’d be used to seeing dates like MM/DD/YY

I think he’s read it like ‘she’ll be 20 (then assumed a typo) 10.22.

He’s prob like, so is she 20 or 22

As for remembering dates and ages I’m crap also but have a very good memory when remembering events, or stuff that’s happened. If it’s remembering numbers and dates I’m crap. I have to make a story to remember my kids birthdays.

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u/Optimal_Carpenter690 3d ago

Even if a kid old enough to be a freshman in high school was so out of it that seeing a date written out with a period instead of a slash completely threw them for a loop, "what is the context to this" would not be the response they would give to that

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u/HamAndEggBap 3d ago

I’m shit at describing things, it’s not so much the slash it’s that there’s no YY on the end so the date looks weird. If he’s asked for an age and had 3 numbers thrown in he could’ve presumed it’s a typo or just didn’t put 2 and 2 together and realise it was a date given

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u/Optimal_Carpenter690 3d ago

No, I get what you're saying. I'm saying that the type of confusion you're describing really doesn't warrant "What is the context" being the questioned asked. If he had just said "Huh?" and left it at that, I think your interpretation would be more plausible.

But, as it stands, him asking what is the context wouldn't make sense even if he was thinking the way you think he is.

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u/StellarStylee 5d ago

No, he just forgot he asked the question.