I have always been on and off FB for some time. Most of the times it is indeed a wonderful tool to get in touch with people in your past. Although most of the times you keep getting requests from unknown people who are on a hunt for similar jobless cronies for their farming and zoo activities on the various games there.
Most of the time I dont login into the chat facility out there in facebook. I prefer to remain "unchatty", but having installed the latest yahoo messenger which has an integration to FB chat, i became online once again.
It was fun to catch up with some people whom i havent spoken to in a decade, in some cases a couple of decades. My heartfelt thanks to Zuckie boy for that. Anyway i think i have already written about FB in an earlier post( you can read about it here). The thing I wanted to write about today came about through FB but not about FB but rather about how fast the world has become.
On a dry and boring day as usual, I logged into my yahoo messenger and was browsing around just like that, when a small chat window opened up. It was from a long lost friend whom i hadnt spoken to in about five years. I didnt even realize that she was there in my FB friend's list. We chatted for a while, she told about her life, her kids, her hubby, how she is missing India and all that stuff. I was at the listening end or rather the hmmm-typing end of the chat for about 30 min.
I had had enough of bonding to last for another five years and was gently pushing the conversation to an end. I guess she too had some sort of emergency on her side, something about glue and hair and pigtails. I guess her kids do keep her busy. Anyway we started saying our good byes and took oaths to keep in touch, when suddenly she typed out HAG in capital letters.
I was struck for some time. I was thinking maybe her hubby is back and he has jumped on the jealousy bandwagon and is coming up with words to hurl at me. But hag??? couldnt be. Even my worst enemy couldn't bring themselves about to call the sweet, dark, mysterious looking dude that comes in the small chat window as a hag can they.
Then i thought maybe it's her kids who are playing drums on momma's laptop. But the way the word was lettered out in block told me that wasnt really possible either. I was getting my exercise that day as i kept jumping from one conclusion to the other in such a brief time. Before i could type out "What" i saw the words that gives hope."...... is typing....."
"u there?" she asked me.
"Ya.." i replied.
"Then y silent all of a suddn"
" I didnt know what to reply. Y u angry all of a sudden. did i say anythn wrong"
"Wat r u sayin...when did i get angry"
"Then y r u callin me hag then?"
"Oh buddhu.. i ment hugs and kisses...oh god, are u 4rl? W2f W2f"
I didnt know whether she was out to get me, or why would should she put in acronyms in a reply about acronyms and my ignorance in that.
Later i went to the net and found out what these mean. 4rl means for real. W2f means Way too funny.
WTF, AFAIK, IDGAD.
PMYMHMMFSWGAD.
Didnt get the last part? Go to the net and find out. IDGAD
2 comments:
lol... acronyms are cool :) nice post...
they are cool but it really does take it out of me to keep learning newer and newer ones...am i getting old...WTF NW.
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