– RUOK?
– SMH.
– Wot?
– ❤
– OMG
– BF brk up w/ me 2day. E sez e did n cht on me, but e ad iz I on tht *b* Tanya lke 4eva.
– wnt me 2 cum O?
– n, I’m OK.
– RU sure?
– def.
– Rly sure?
– QQ.
– F it. I cum O.
– Ty. But CD9.
– B@TGIF in 10. BFF, 143.
– 1432
***
Keisha’s parents closed the chat room window. Their daughter had just stormed out of the house without saying a word and they were worried. So they did what every parent would do. They opened up her laptop.
“Are those drug codes?” mom asked.
“I wish I knew,“ dad replied.
He truly did. And he realised that invading your daughter’s privacy in the age of txtese was as futile as carrying coal to Newcastle – especially for those that still knew what that particular proverb used to mean.
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300 stories 
lol nice. I enjoyed the reaction of the parents. Too funny. 🙂
LOL I ❤ I
I was able to keep up with the text talk for some time… But then it just got absurd 😛 Great post!
I “Laughed Out Loud”, or LOL’d as the young people might assert.
Excellent, although I had to cheat and use netlingo to look up some of the textspeak.
Me too… and I’m a teenager. Must be a disgrace to my kind! :O haha…
So clever. Loved it. 143, man! 😀
WTF? FLMXD! 😀
My hands are dirty. Great originality.
I loved this! “was as futile as carrying coal to Newcastle – especially for those that still knew what that particular proverb used to mean”. Oh, you hit the nail on the head, sir. Or shall I say, “idk like. OMG 2 tru!
Trying to imagine the parent’s faces as they read the texts, lol.
Very good work here, Dieter. (A few weeks back, I wrote a flash told through tweets, and that was fun & challenging, so I feel like I can really appreciate where you’re coming from with this). I especially like the story-within-a-story aspect. I don’t text–yes, a rare dinosaur am I!–but I was able to follow most of the first “story,” and enjoyed how it led into the parents’ POV(s). Very authentic, to my mind.
CD9? Que?
code 9 = other people are nearby = parents are watching
Wow. I…I’m old, aren’t I?
Text speak drives me crazy! Is it really that difficult to type “come over”? You nailed it.
Good god, how will kids be communicating by the time I have some. Fun flash!
Hahah. Boi, I is so lost proofreading the new age text. Is that even in the urban dictionary lol.
Reading this makes me feel so old and im only 22!Lol 😀
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I have no idea what half of that means… But a current parents nightmare for sure. Thankfully mine type is a more word oriented fashion, for the most part anyway.