To think this text from neighbour was weird?

[Sienna333]

We were sorting out an arrangement for something to be dropped off at my home and she finished the text with "Ok, thanks. Bye." Found it a bit odd is all.

Why is that "new" or confusing?

I suppose if you were terminally stupid it might go over your head...

I don't believe that poster said it was new or confusing, actually - or said anything about Bye not being related to Goodbye.

There's only a few posts in the thread, so I'm not sure how you confused yourself there.

As you said yourself "It really isn't difficult. Unless one is stupid". Might need to look in a mirror to find who those words apply best to...

Boucle you owe OhforfucksakeFay an apology.

She didn’t say anything about it being new or confusing. She’s actually agreeing with the majority of posters that it was both a common and completely normal way to sign off.

We’ll all just wait here embarrassed on your behalf until you apologise.

Fay only wrote a short post, too. I suppose she must have been terminally stupid for it to go over her head Cavender ...now I'll bet you Boucle won't be a happy bunny about having her own words repeated to her.

Jaysus though, the venom. It's the stereotypical MN viper biting herself in the tail.

I think OP is just finding it odd via text and tbf I don’t get it often but I wouldn’t find it odd if I did, maybe someone who doesn’t text a lot would do it.

I do find it odd when I always say bye on an answerphone message. I wish I was much cooler and just got to the point and finished it with less of a fumble.

@MiddleClassProblem

Years ago I was desperate to sound cool and casual on an jokey answerphone message i was leaving for bloke who i was dating. It was early days but he seemed very cool compared to me. I wrote the message out so I wouldn't say the wrong thing - this was in the days before re-recording messages, and got through the message just fine. Felt a bit giddy and happy with relief.

And then, for no fucking reason whatsoever, I ended the message with "love, Pug" as though i was writing a letter. I paused in horror and put the phone down and immediately fell into that bending over in horror cringing pose. I was mortified.

Oh, the self-consciousness of youth!

It is rather embarrassing to be quite so vicious towards the wrong poster Raven.

Boucle name checking the wrong poster happens from time to time, a nice bit of grovelling will sort it out.

Now that OP has received some answers to her AiBU, her ideal response would be . . .'OK. Thanks. Bye"

PugonToast 😂 that’s so something I would do. Thank fuck most of my dating took place when you could delete and re record. Sometime I would have 8 goes... sometimes I’d press the wrong button and send a shit one by accident...

How old is your neighbour? Us elderly might write weird texts without realising anything, when I grew up nobody sent texts, I could easily have sent it myself to somebody. The shorter the better (don't like to type on a phone).

Even if Boucle was intending to address her post to the OP there was no need to be so rude.

The OP didn't know, asked a question and got an answer.

I can't see why Boucle got so odd about this, it was clear o me that OP was just asking because they found it weird in the context of texting. I can see why, I looked at my phone and no-one I know uses a sign off like this. For me, it's something I'd use in person, not text.

I once had a text 'RUF2N?'

I was thinking 'what the heck?' and phoned in perplexity and it turns out she was asking 'are you free tonight?'

So in comparision 'thanks, bye' is positively Shakespearian

I wouldn't find that sign off odd either. I agree with MidniteScribbler's interpretation that it means there's no need to prolong the conversation!

A friend used to use 'tom' for 'tomorrow'. Although not that odd I suppose, I frequently got a bit perplexed as to why she was suddenly involving our mutual friend, Tom, in our arrangements

Oh god PanPan my mother used to use cum instead of come.

I'd get all queasy at it and put the phone down. I did try to tell her it wasn't nice

My then 16 year old ds once used "perchance" in a text to me. It was something g along the lines of
"Hi Mum. I should be home around 9. If perchance you are going out before then don't worry as I have my keys with me"

I found the whole text seriously unsettling as he never used to let me know when he was coming back. And then the arcane language - not sure I've ever heard "perchance" used IRL. I did won Dec whether he'd been kidnapped by aliens.

OP the text you got is perfectly normal.

Wonder not won Dec.

Flipping autocorrect

Emma perchance is quite sweet

How unsettling, Bullet.

Love 'perchance' - I'm not surprised you thought he'd been kidnapped by aliens, Emma

Pan it was a tricky one as she didn't know what it meant and I've never particularly wanted to talk to my mother about sperm

Midnite in my case, it's more like an overwhelming urge to reply.

EDLad once gave me a Mother's Day card in which he'd written "Have a spiffing day!" He was 14. I wasn't aware that I'd given birth to Jennings!

Bullet I'm pretty sure she did know what it meant. You're proof that she's dtd at least once.

Noooooo

It's not even slightly odd.
What's odd is you thinking it's odd!

I don’t think it’s odd.

But even if it was, it’s really not worth thinking about. I doubt you will pop round to them and say “Your text was odd, please explain”.