Would most people be annoyed if this happened...

LegacyUser

I've been going out with my girlfriend for six months. This is longest either of us have dated anyone. I stayed at her house last tuesday night and texted her yesterday just to say hi. But I ran out of credit after that 1 text, so I couldn't reply to hers. She rang me today+ I think she was a bit pissed at me... saying I could have sent her a bebo comment to let her know or something. What are your opinions... would most people be pissed off at something like this?
Also- is it a bad thing if we don't text/ make any contact in 3 days (most of the time)... or do alot of people do that?...

WindSock

Probably would have been decent to let her know. She is supposed to be your Girlfriend afterall. Don't you have any other form of contact other than texts?

The_Conductor

Errr- whats with txt'ing or bebo comments? Whatever happened to talking to someone rather than hiding behind a text message or a computer message. You slept over at your gf's house almost a week ago, and immediately afterwards sent her a single txt saying hi. You made no other attempt to contact her. So, yes, I can well imagine your girlfriend being pissed with you. Text messages really have killed social skills......

~Rebel~

Well from my own situation anyway (with gf for bit over 2 years) i dont think she'd be odd if ran out of cred, would just assume it if i didnt reply for a while. Would prob expect some sort of explanation whenever next spoke if had ignored stuff, eg, sorry pet, ran out of cred, fell asleep, left phone in room etc etc.

On the not having contact for 3 days. Im sure its normal for some people, for ourselves i didnt go mroe then 2 days without seeing her for the first year or so id say, and i doubt we've ever gone 3 days with absolutely no contact, even if just a text or a short phonecall.

Stark

If you had access to the net then you had no excuse. You have access to both webtexts and e-mail. If you can't afford to keep texting her (it is bloody expensive), look at a cheaper option. Phone calls are generally cheaper than texts, although there is the danger of ending up on a 30 min call Switch yourselves to Meteor or if you're both on O2/Vodafone, avail of the "phone/text a friend" rates.

Overheal

what happened to the 90's when people used to call eachother for a conversation? I miss that...there is something to be said about the good old fasioned phone call.

frizzefreckles

i speak to my other half every day. since the day we met we have been in daily contact. even if it was just a single text to say goodnight. you could easily have borrowed someone else's phone just to text her and say you ran out of credit, phoned her, or as she said used bebo.

ZiabR

frizzefreckles wrote:

i speak to my other half every day. since the day we met we have been in daily contact. even if it was just a single text to say goodnight. you could easily have borrowed someone else's phone just to text her and say you ran out of credit, phoned her, or as she said used bebo.

Yeah getting another phone for 5 minutes could not be that hard. I think she has every right to be pissed at you.

louisecm

Lads I give up. Feckin' politics of texting, bebo, myspace blah blah blah. I miss the old fashioned days when you spoke on a phone that was connected to a wall.

Stark

louisecm wrote:

I miss the old fashioned days when you spoke on a phone that was connected to a wall.

Yes, but you're not in prison anymore so suck it up

Kinetic^

I talk to the missus everyday.......and I mean talk.....not text or Bebo crap.

padser

I guess three days is the normal for you so can't really say much about that, dunno why you wouldn't send a webtext, e mail or bebo though

Miss Fluff

I'm sure you'd access to a landline. Fair enough that's she's p1ssed off methinks.

louisecm

Stark wrote:

Yes, but you're not in prison anymore so suck it up

Oh how I miss those jailbird days. Stripes were SO my thing.

cornbb

Communication is great and important and all but I don't think its a good sign that she was pissed off that you didn't text her after running out of credit. Sure it would have been nice if you went out of your way to send her a bebo message but not doing so doesn't justify her being pissed off IMO. Its not like you need to be in touch 24/7.

DarkJager

Just as a matter of interest, what age are you and your girlfriend? IMO bebo is best left to the teenagers, adults have more mature ways of communicating with each other.

AnonoBoy

Wait. Was it the first time you'd slept with her? If so then just a single text afterwards to say 'hi' and no contact for three days, well you could see how she might be a tad pissed off.

Bebo, ppfffhhhh! That's only for slagging people off on, right? I didn't think anyone actually used it for real communication, especially with someone they're sleeping with.

As stated above:

Dial number.
Put mouth to phone.
Say 'hello'!

There are such things as public payphones you know!

junior_apollo

AnonoBoy wrote:

Wait. Was it the first time you'd slept with her? If so then just a single text afterwards to say 'hi' and no contact for three days, well you could see how she might be a tad pissed off.

Tend to agree with AnonoBoy on this one.. if it was ye're first time then it musta looked pretty bad on your part and ya she has a right to me pissed off...

As someone else mentioned there too look at both changing to meteor or availing of the other networks offers, on meteor billpay myself and makes it dead handy to both call and text the other half for free. So means we're in contact all the time, talk & text, and then meet up at weekends (I work and live in a different city so I'm only home weekends)

I'd be annoyed. I talk to the other half evert day and it's been 6 and a half months. No contact for a week followed by a "hi" and nothing else just is not on. She's your girlfriend, not some random acquaintance.

NextSteps

bluewolf wrote:

I'd be annoyed. I talk to the other half evert day and it's been 6 and a half months.

Me too, and it's been ten years. Pick up the phone!

StormWarrior

GfriendAnnoyed wrote:

Also- is it a bad thing if we don't text/ make any contact in 3 days (most of the time)... or do alot of people do that?...

I would find it very strange if my boyfriend didn't bother to contact me for 3 days at a time. I would have to coclude he wasn't that interested, and I would pretty quickly get tired of dating him.

Marksie

well, i would drop a message by phone, even onto a voicemail before three days went passed.

It sometimes happens that the situation precludes either phone or text. but old enough not to have anxiety or panic attacks if somene doesnt get back to me for a while cos it doesnt mean they care :rolleyes:.

edit: thiniing back to when i was at university, we were forced to write to each other and make arrangements to try and phone at certain times, as there was no email, texting or mobiles for that matter. Its amazing we ever survived really.