Reina Hardesty, 13, sent 14,528 text messages last month alone. That's a lot. Her father's online AT&T statement ran to 440 pages
"First, I laughed. I thought, 'That's insane, that's impossible,'" the 45-year-old dad said. "And I immediately whipped out my calculator to see if it was humanly possible." He found it was - barely.
Then I thought maybe AT&T made some mistake on the bill,"
However, there was no mistake and the online AT&T statement ran to 440 pages.
Mr Hardesty questioned his daughter on who exactly she was sending messages to all the time.
"Who are you texting, anyway? Your entire school?" he asked.
"Well, a lot of my friends have unlimited texting. I just text them pretty much all the time," she explained, according to The New York Post.
The paper reported that the California girl sent messages to four of her friends who were all compulsive texters. (Apparently, they even sent text messages to each other when they were all sitting on the same sofa watching TV together.)
The average number of monthly texts for a 13- to 17-year-old teen is 1,742.
Mr Hardesty admits that he himself sends 900 messages a month – 700 more than average for his age group, the paper reported.
It added that Mr Hardesty and his ex-wife have since placed restrictions on Reina's mobile phone use, ruling she cannot text after dinner.
Telegraph.co.uk
"Mr Hardesty admits that he himself sends 900 messages a month"
ReplyDeleteIt looks like having no life runs in the family.