what up chump
from a 765 phone number, Tuesday, May 5, 10:13 PM

so you cant text me
from a 765 phone number, Tuesday, May 5, 10:18 PM

No, I can text you. I just choose not to. Because you called me a chump!

What was 4 ss homework
from a 650 phone number, Tuesday, May 5, 7:09 PM

Do the reading and potentially make a timeline. That's what social studies is. That's the whole subject, in a nutshell. You're welcome.

--ORIGINAL MSG: FWD: Ur a beautiful Mom & doing a good job & you are LOVED! Now hit 7 moms who put their kids 1st. Hope i'm one of them... *JaMiE*
from a 513 phone number, Tuesday, May 5, 6:49 PM

Wow, this text is so sweet it almost makes me want to take back what I just said about having a baby... Oh, wait, no, it doesn't.

yahoo i love dr brady k went to bed at 840...up 2x cried for 25 min each slept from 12 - now! no bottle from 8pm to 6.45!
from a 518 phone number, Tuesday, May 5, 6:47 AM

Oh my Lord, am I glad I don't have a baby. I need WAY more sleep than this. Is 518 really rejoicing because baby k slept nearly 7 hours? I can sleep nearly 7 hours as a midday nap.

FWD; When u Care 4 Someone Everything Seems Perfect til u lose them. Ignore this & tomorrow will be ur worst day. Send to 8 friends you need.
from a 602 phone number, Monday, May 4, 9:49 PM

Is anyone else feeling like this is a really pessimistic text? How everything only seems perfect? How you will inevitably lose the one u Care 4? Is it really so bad, 602?

Yo wats up i at deans bball game winning
from an 860 phone number, Monday, May 4, 6:14 PM

R u there i need someone to tex i at britts therpy me bored
from an 860 phone number, Monday, May 4, 6:37 PM

Within 23 minutes, 860 was dragged from Dean's basketball game (which I think he was winning?) to Britt's therapy? C'mon, parents of 860, can't you just get the kid a babysitter and leave him home alone for an afternoon? This sounds like an exhausting run of errands.

Dad getting PET scan this morning. At the medical center now waiting.
from a 562 phone number, Monday, May 4, 10:36 AM

I hope he's okay!

FWD: John 3:16 This is really creepy! Fwd this to 9 ppl not me then turn off ur phone. Turn it back on and look at your new wallpaper. 100% true
from a 540 phone number, Sunday, May 3, 10:59 AM

Over the two years of the Leila Texts, I have received many, many iterations on this chain text. But I think this is the first version to ever reference a Bible verse. Apparently the verse says: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Which doesn't immediately appear to have much to do with cell phone wallpaper. But, really, how would I know?

Hey girl how u doin.
from an 847 phone number, Sunday, May 3, 10:23 AM

I recognize this sentence from a Girl Talk song.

it is...4778 cromwell ave. 90027
from a 323 phone number, Saturday, May 2, 1:34 PM

323, are you thinking about moving here? Because this place looks hella sick!

Did we hadve any homework 4 ms sullivan
from a 650 phone number, Friday, May 1, 10:30 PM

Excuse me, 650. You sent this text about homework at 10:30 on a Friday evening. Please stop being such a nerd and try to act just slightly cooler. Thank you.

FWD: HAVENT YET HEARD BACK FRM LISA...
from an 805 phone number, Friday, May 1, 8:07 PM

OH NO! WHY DON'T YOU TELEPHONE HER?

What a authe
from a 614 phone number, Friday, May 1, 6:28 PM

What a cutie. Tell Auntie Leslie Leah and Andrea Hi. Give Lily a kiss for me.
from a 614 phone number, Friday, May 1, 6:38 PM

Awkward when you hit "send" mid-way through typing and your text doesn't make any sense because predictive texting has given you "authe" instead of "cutie."

Check on wine and food event in NO at the end of may.
from a 225 phone number, Thursday, April 30, 9:49 PM

225 is Louisiana, so I assume NO means New Orleans. Don't know what wine and food event this would be, though. I was not invited.

I have your keys! Ya in yet?
from a 201 phone number, Thursday, April 30, 6:45 PM

Sounds like one Leila's going to have some trouble starting her car...

Hey is jessie cant have a sleepover do you think maybe you could?
from a 774 phone number, Thursday, April 30,6:01 PM

No. I refuse to be your second choice like that. I won't sit back and accept being treated this way!

swine flu is killing me
from a 520 phone number, Thursday, April 30, 4:39 PM

References to and jokes about swine flu spread faster than the flu itself. Memes are a powerful force.

It was one said that a black man would be president "when pigs flew" indeed 100 days into Obama's presidency...swin flu!! Haha
from a 734 phone number, Thursday, April 30, 12:54 PM

Um. I'll give them points for the pun, at least.

Do u have a calcqlator i can use
from a 703 phone number, Wednesday, April 29, 9:27 AM

Yeah, I have my TI-83 at my office, but, inexplicably, my co-workers always laugh at me when I use it for addition. Be warned, 703: If I lend it to you, people might laugh at you, too.

i planed the whole thing out we are going to go to the mall and watch a movie, and then after that were going to eat at chipotle!!!
from a 703 phone number, Tuesday, April 28, 5:18 PM

I actually do this sort of thing a lot: Plan out a series of mundane activities and then get three exclamation marks worth of excited because, somehow, this series of events strikes me as perfect. Like last Saturday, when Heddle and I were all, "We are going to sit in the park! And then we are going to eat dinner at a restaurant! And then we are going to a bar with outdoor seating! And it will be the best Saturday EVER!" And it a little bit was.