Hello, Friends. I, JLay87, have a confession...

[ENIGMA16]

I am a drunk texter. I've always had a problem with getting wasted and then texting a ton of people about random stuff; sometimes it's just as harmless as asking what they're doing, but it can get much worse. Oh believe me, much worse.

So I've been thinking about how to alleviate this problem for some time, as it is incredibly annoying, and I have at least for the time being come up with a solution to prevent the worst case scenarios.

If you have numbers of girls that you just met or are seeing in your phone, or want to mess around with, take these numbers out of your phone. Write them down on a piece of paper and delete them from your phone. That way you aren't able to text them. So simple, yet so genius. The only problem with this is that they call and you're like "who's this?"

That's all I've really come up with so far. How do you deal with this terrible habit?

 

[Pathgen]

1) Have some Self-Control
2) Don't get that drunk
3) Disable texting from your service plan
4) Don't Bring your phone when you get that drunk

 

[JCballin88]

I usually leave my phone back in my dorm room if I'm going to the bar here in town. If I know I'm going to be drinking at least moderately, then I probably shouldn't be using my phone anyways. So I just don't bring it.

 

[zekko]

If your drinking is starting to adversely affect your life, maybe you should lay off the booze.

 

[SandHawk]

Google has this service where it can force you to solve a little math problem or puzzle before it allows you to send a mail. But no phone I know has that feature. You could probably write a program(altho I have no idea if you can hook that deep into the OS of your phone) that does that on something like an Android or Windows Mobile phone, but that requires you to be able to program a computer and I have better things to do than writing you software.

Alternatively, you could get yourself a 2nd phone, which is your DJ phone. Get yourself also a (cheap) safe with time lock, and when you go out, you put your DJ phone in the safe, timelock it till the moment in time where you expect to be sober or at least asleep in bed and then go out. Never use your other phone to pick up girls. And if you do, you're probably going to **** those over but you still have your DJP with the biggest stash of numbers in the safe.

That's about anything I can think of in the physical means of preventing it, other than not getting that hammered...

 

[Warrior74]

Stop drinking so much anyway. Disable texing from your phone.

 

[arutha]

Yeah the obvious solution if your drinking is being a problem is to stop drinking so much... You can still have plenty of fun just tipsy, or even completely sober. Or man up and control yourself, I used to send heaps of stupid drunk texts now I still get drunk all the time but hardly ever send a message out.

 

[chrisgoodrich25]

I am a drunk texter. I've always had a problem with getting wasted and then texting a ton of people about random stuff; sometimes it's just as harmless as asking what they're doing, but it can get much worse. Oh believe me, much worse.

So I've been thinking about how to alleviate this problem for some time, as it is incredibly annoying, and I have at least for the time being come up with a solution to prevent the worst case scenarios.

If you have numbers of girls that you just met or are seeing in your phone, or want to mess around with, take these numbers out of your phone. Write them down on a piece of paper and delete them from your phone. That way you aren't able to text them. So simple, yet so genius. The only problem with this is that they call and you're like "who's this?"

That's all I've really come up with so far. How do you deal with this terrible habit?

I think its so awsome you posted this thread cause I was having a huge problem with the same thing..Up until It got to the point I would have to delete everyones number cause I just kept doing it..I completley understand where your comming from and know how awfull you can feel the next day..I would always just delete the text from my phone after I sent the message so I wouldnt have to remember or look at what dumb **** I sent out...Dont be to hard on yourself..ohh and I'm working on not drinking as much either..although its not really working at the moment..but I'll see cause i do like to drink

 

[Lost1]

I think its so awsome you posted this thread cause I was having a huge problem with the same thing..Up until It got to the point I would have to delete everyones number cause I just kept doing it..I completley understand where your comming from and know how awfull you can feel the next day..I would always just delete the text from my phone after I sent the message so I wouldnt have to remember or look at what dumb **** I sent out...Dont be to hard on yourself..ohh and I'm working on not drinking as much either..although its not really working at the moment..but I'll see cause i do like to drink

I could see doing this if you were 18 but 25? Wow not to sound mean but grow up man.

 

[ENIGMA16]

Well drinking's never "been a problem" for me the problem is the texting. But yeah most of you are right, I could probably cut back so I'm not at that point.