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So I’m all, ‘gg’

02.02.2009 by David Murray // 5 Comments

My football coach sends me a text message on Sunday morning, asks if I've got time for some coaching over the phone.

Foggily, I try to text him back.

But I don't know how to text.

All I get out is "gg" before accidentally pushing whatever button makes it send.

He writes back immediately. "Not familiar with gg."

I holler for my wife to text him back and let him know I can talk on the phone. We don't clear up "gg," and let him go on thinking he's out of touch with the latest texting slang.

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  1. Eileen Burmeister says

    February 2, 2009 at 5:20 pm

    Okay grandpa…time to buck up and try texting a little. If a monkey can do it (and Scout, I’m sure) I think you can. IBIY (I believe in you!)
    GG (go get-em!)

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  2. David Murray says

    February 2, 2009 at 7:03 pm

    Texting is the silliest waste of time I can imagine. There’s a reason grown-ups don’t do it as much as kids:
    Grown-ups realize they’re not going to live forever.

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  3. Kristen says

    February 3, 2009 at 8:41 am

    AMEN, David!

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  4. Kristen says

    February 3, 2009 at 11:10 am

    P.S. Oh Yeah -about Ms. Eileen: “buck up grandpa” ??
    Big talk, because if I recall correctly she just recently learned how to rip songs off iTunes if memory serves she called it “downloading”)

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  5. michael clendenin says

    February 11, 2009 at 12:29 pm

    gg = Good God! (as in “you’re freakin’ jokin’, right?”)
    gg = gack! gurgle! (as in “call 911”)
    gg = Get Gipper (as in “Go rent “Knute Rockne: All-American” and see what Reagan had to say, I’m busy”)
    gg = ” ” (as in “I can’t figure this texting thing out…let me put my wife on it”)
    Good to find your blog again, David!

    Reply

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