Death-ly correspondence
It’s a slow day, so I have an excuse to answer those wayward text messages I’ve been getting. This one, I couldn’t resist answering:
UNK: Wat f, im 0n t0p of a 99-flr bldg…redy 2 jump…Gv me a 1-line sentence, 2 c0nvince me dat i shud nt die.
This is too easy. So I wrote:
ME: There is no life after death.
And then he replied:
UNK: fuck! who are you?
ME: Sorry, my phone does not recognize your number. And it’s rude to curse someone you don’t know.
UNK: what is your name?, I txt my cousin not you…
ME: I’m Azrael. Good. I thought you already jumped.
UNK: I thought you are an angel of death. Where you from?
ME: Nice to know that you’re literate. I’m mostly everywhere.
**I wish I didn’t jump the gun in calling him 'literate' as I’ll be proven otherwise later.
UNK: Where is everywhere? Fuck i dont play games!
ME: You started it when you sent me a text.
UNK: im not txting you., i txt my cousin not you… Where do you live?
ME: I live in the Netherworld. Now, why would you text your cousin that you’re about to jump off a 99-storey building?
UNK: Where is netherworld? what is that place?
ME: You’ll find soon enough if you still feel like jumping.
UNK: Can you call to my phone now, can i talk to you? I dont believe in heaven and hell but i believe in death.
ME: I seem to have misjudged you. I thought you weren’t one of them -- ordinary.
UNK: One of them? Who? I have no time to playing games…
ME: See how insignificant you are? You don’t even know that you’ve just been insulted.
UNK: Im not insulted! I wanna know where do you live,i dont know where is netherworld because i live in netherland with peter pan and tinker bell.
**Duh! Netherland?!?
ME: (laughs) How old are you? Pray, tell. And I might just visit you tonight while you sleep.
UNK: Im 22, dont visit me if you are a guy,visit me if you are a girl. Why you visit me do you know my address?
**At this point I stopped replying. For the love of Zeus! He’s 22 and he texts like 12. Should I start complaining about poor education in the Philippines again?

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