My FIL just sent me a whatsapp

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I spent yesterday teaching him and MIL so they could join the group chat

I am sat cuddling my long long awaited rainbow baby DD. Many many losses before her and a fairly bumpy start when she arrived.

Anyway it says " thank you for helping us. I want you to know I would have sold my sex to see you have a baby." Then "soul, sold my soul"

It made me howl with laughter then tears. They can be a tricky pair, very old fashioned and stubborn, but today I feel loved. Even if autocorrect needs some work....

Any family text errors with you recently?

BURMA across a letter flap I dont get it

Many people used to think “LOL” meant “lots of love”

No, they didn’t ‘think’ that, they ‘knew’ that. That was the meaning LONG before people had phones in their homes, let alone text 🙄

Honestly, you didn’t invent it, you stole it!

One that makes me laugh is my elderly Aunt. She still says ‘You’ll have to suck it and see’ I told her once that it conjures up a different image these days and she was 😳 but she’s seems to have forgotten now so we all have to keep a straight face, there’s no point in telling her again as she won’t remember.

Lovely. Congratulations on your dd.

My MIL always LOLs too. I've yet to correct her......

Friend's mum in school used to jokingly called everybody a dildo - she thought it meant something similar to 'silly-billy'. Her DD was so mortified she didn't correct her for about three years

Oldraver I didn't know that! At least I know she has got it from somewhere. Doesn't make it any less funny when she says it though I often wonder whether I should tell her but she's lovely and she'd be mortified.

yourfly

B.U.R.M.A. — Be Undressed/Upstairs Ready My Angel

My elderly dad texted Vodaphone recently to tell them he'd found his teeth under his pillow.

And, years ago, before I became old and wise, I texted LOL to a friend whose mum was very ill, thinking it meant Lots of Love.

That's hilarious! Word of warning, that's how my baby blues started! I started laughing hysterically at something, it turned into tears of laughter, then just tears which didn't stop for ten days

Not texting... But phone related...

My nan has a phone with an emergency button, so when its pressed, it rings and texts the 6 emergency contacts on there. It tells the location of the phone and that help is needed...
My nan has pressed it by accident a couple of times and after one time, she joked that she was just keeping us all on our toes...

Bless your fil ...

Sorry, just seen how many people have done similarly re: lol.
Didn't RTFT!

Aside from that, today, I have managed to persuade my Dad to get internet banking. He goes into the branch every time he has a query. Bless him. 'And they don't want you going in at all!' Heeheehee.
I told him that if he didn't get online, he won't be able to bank at all.
Then I mentioned a neighbour (fierce competition between these two) and he was like 'ye, I think that's the way the boxcar operates, but sure his dd used to work in a bank, so she'd have him set up on that'.
I had to remind him that I also work in a bank (an investment bank), so he had no reason to be left behind lol. It was like a revelation to him that I work in a bank!

Not a text thing but when my DS was a baby, an old friend of my mum's came to see him (I was at mum's house). DS was fussing a bit so I gave him my finger to suck for a minute, Mum's friend had seen Princess Diana do this apparently and announced to the room 'oh that's lovely, the royal suck'

Cue room full of my family trying to curb their hysteria. My mum was a terrible giggler and she had to leave the room, shoulders shaking.

I'm laughing now just remembering it

Aww bet your poor fil was mortified. Congratulations on your new baby.

My friends dh texted his mum thanking her for the prossies she had sent.
He got a reply along the lines of I’m fairly sure that’s not what is that parcel.

Rrr congrats op!

Mines not a text one but my Grandad asked me to show him how he checks his missed calls on his new mobile- as people were saying they had rang and he didn't know.
I said 'ok, Grandad put your phone on the table, I'll ring you don't answer and then it'll show as a missed call and I'll show you what to do'
Grandad 'ok' puts phone on table
I immediately ring his mobile from the couch next to him.
Grandad when it starts ringing ' oooo I wonder who's ringing me now!' And picks up to answer the phone
I couldn't breathe for laughing as he said 'hello' and then quickly realised what he'd done haha

Aww that's lovely. Congratulations.

Another one from me! I told my Mum I had had to delete photos and videos as my phone was full and my DM was like 'Just back it up to Google Drive'. What? You're almost 70 and you know more about this shit than I do?

Both my Nan and DH’s Nan died within days of each other last year. We were involved in both of their day to day care and it was a really stressful time.

DH’s Nana died first and his mum rang to tell him. Once he got over the initial shock he left the living room to ring his siblings. Whilst he was making the calls I let my large side of the family know on our Whattsap group. I wrote a short sentence and put up a photo of the two old ladies, who got on like a house on fire whenever they met.

My aunt was tired, sat next to my Nan’s bed, responded to the photo with
“lovely bananas”
Then
“I mean bananas”
Then
“Nanas”

Lots of cousins (and I)were cracking up as I tried to comfort DH in between his phone calls. 🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌 He will never know.

FrowningFlamingo - are you my son in law ?

NORWICH ....’(K)NickersOffReadyWhenIComeHome’
SWALK...SealedWithALovingKiss
OMO...there were (apocryphal) stories of ‘flighty’ women putting a pack of OMO in the kitchen window as a signal to their beaux ‘Old Man Out’ :)

I am VERy old, and these were absolutely something we all knew about as teenagers

That’s so sweet and funny OP. Congratulations

Last night I accidentally asked a male friend to go on holiday with me. Which is fine except I didn't realise that the message did not say group holiday or with others at all and he was very up for it before he found that out. I mean he's still up for it but not quite so enthusiastic

That's such a lovely message. Congratulations to you and DH

Ha ha. Was just about to post that MIL calls understairs cupboard glory hole and I could not stop laughing. See she is not the only one.

She also requested a full frontal of my dp recently. ........not sure that's what you mean MIL

Haha Flamingflamingo that's made me howl 😂

Congrats on your long awaited baby!

My mother likes to keep up with the times and sent me a text saying she and my dad were going to 'watch some netflix and chill'.

I shuddered, dear reader!