to get the rage at dotty dot dots in texts and emails

[NeedMoreSleepOrSugar]

Maybe I'm getting old and grumpy as not only do I not understand them but they really do irritate me far more than is reasonable.

Why do people put random. ........ In texts and emails? I read them as passive aggressive pauses, even when the message is clearly friendly!

"Great....Thanks for doing that....I really appreciate your help......" is it just me that reads that as a pa message? (It absolutely wasn't)
Or
"Hi. ...what time is the meeting at? ......I can't find my notes. ....."
"I'm back in the office on Friday. ....are you available to discuss X please. It shouldn't take long. ...I just need help understanding Y"

All received from people whose work involves writing to a very high standard. One is a notorious pedant. So is it just me who doesn't get the ........s? Am I just a silly old grump who needs to embrace the dotty dots?

My old boss was dreadful for this. She was a brilliant, educated woman but was incapable of writing an email without fucking dots in every single sentence.

I appreciate ellipses can be used for effect, but this was certainly not the case here.

could be worse, my DM writes with no punctuation at all, one long stream of words. To read them, i have to copy /paste and insert line breaks... *totall agressive dot dot dot

drives me crazy - i sent them back sometimes saying i cannot read them

My line manager thought the more dots the better as it gave greater impact to her email.

Most people just said ffs and deleted it!

Ha ha this OP has really tickled me for some reason! I think it's imagining some poor innocent person texting you a friendly message, and you foaming with rage over their perceived passive aggression .

I use them a lot in texts. I've checked back on recent texts (yes I am that sad!) and found that I use them in a 'you can guess the rest!' way, which is appropriate I think.

Most recent example: my day off was going well until work called with an emergency...

Never use more than 3 though.

...

I've always read them as a stream of consciousness thing. So if the person couldn't be bothered to write in proper sentences they could just join up thought with a .......