You couldn’t make them up

Please forgive me, but I must share with Rust readers these two examples that I have copied from a piece appearing on the Daily Mail website today on the subject of embarrassing and/or funny text exchanges between parents and children, posted on the internet almost exclusively by the latter.

There were quite a few of them to choose from but, in circumstances like this, I use a very simple and infallible yardstick via which I choose my favourites: I stick rigidly to those which (for one reason or another) simply crack me up every time I look at, or think of, them.

[Note: in both cases the ‘oldie’ sends the first text …]

First up, here’s a father plainly struggling with the basic technicalities of drafting and sending a text:

 

Secondly, here’s a mother who has misunderstood how to include a typing space in her texts: