In a heartwarming story out of Boston, MA, friends Yara Reed and Winnie Lu are currently engaged in a text chain where each of them takes three days to respond, which suggests they will never successfully complete a full conversation.
Nice! That’s absolutely how texts are supposed to work!
“Am I on my phone at all hours of the day? Yeah, of course,” Yara told reporters gathered at the scene. “But whenever I get a text from Winnie, I want to let it sit, you know? Really mull over my response. I don’t want her to think I’m just saying the first thing that comes to mind.”
Sources confirm Winnie would love to know the first thing that came to Yara’s mind, as the texts are often about innocuous topics like where she’ll be that weekend or how her trip home was.
“It’s a two-way street, though, you know?” Yara continued. “She takes so long to respond to me that I assume she doesn’t mind when I do the same.”
Way to break that cycle of violence, girlies!
“It’s never intentional on my part,” Winnie told reporters in her defense. “Sometimes, I fear it’ll be perceived as ‘overeager’ if I respond immediately, so I’ll hold off the first time I see her text. Then, about three days later, I’ll wake up in the middle of the night, remember she texted, and panic-respond. That starts the cycle all over again.”
According to sources close to the friends, they’ve been texting this way for about two years and have exchanged a total of about 40 texts, which really isn’t that many.
“We’ve never exactly had a full conversation,” Winnie continued. “Because by the time one of us responds, the last message is almost always out of date.”
For example, one time Winnie texted Yara, “what are you up to tn? want to hang?” and Yara felt bad admitting she had plans, so she didn’t respond for three days, at which point she said, “omg so sorry. didn’t see this! how was your weekend?”
Winnie, feeling a bit spited by this and fearing she overestimated their closeness, figured it would be best to seem chill and hold off on responding for another three days. She then texted, “good! can’t even remember what I did.”
Yara considered this a bit of a lackluster response, and therefore spent another three days thinking of something new to say.
Scientists confirm that in order for the two friends to break this toxic cycle, one of them has to swallow their pride and respond immediately, literally just one time. This should set off a chain reaction where the recipient immediately responds, then on and on until they have a conversation to completion.
Sure. Cute pipe dream, fellas!
