I’m not big on text messaging.

I just can’t type fast enough to keep up, and leaving the vowels out of words annoys me. But text messaging is useful, and 2 events in the news proved that recently. In the first, a Malaysian teen thwarted an attacker by sending a text message to family. After hearing a noise outside, Salima Mohamad Noor sent a quick text message, and the next thing she knew, a guy had a knife at her throat.

(What’s up with the kids today, anyway? They here a noise and their first instinct is to text for help? What about RUNNING LIKE HELL?)

In the second story, 2 lawyers in Atlanta (that sounds like the beginning of a lawyer joke!) were kidnapped. David Deganian held onto his cell phone, and used it to text his brother that he’d been kidnapped. The missing men were found, unharmed, after one of the suspects was picked up for using a credit card belonging to one of the victims.