tigertext

Have you seen this? Tigertext: you use it to send text messages and after a some amount of time, they're deleted from your phone and the phone you sent the text message to. I'm thinking that Tiger Woods is a shoe-in for sponsoring this. If he ends up getting divorced, this app could have saved him about $400 million. They say it was developed and named before all Tiger's shit hit the fan but I don't know, they're gonna be cashing in now.

In my world, it would be nice to use if you did a lot of "drunk-texting". Another thing it brings to mind is something that happened to a guy I work with. I'll change his name to Stanky, just so I don't piss anybody off.

Stanky is working night shift one night, his wife and kids at home. Considerate fellow that Stanky is, he decides to send his wife a text message about the time she should be going to bed. He types "I love you darling, have a good night." Keep in mind that Stanky had been covering for the shift supervisor. As a supervisor (or covering for one), you keep a lot of phone numbers in your phone for quick access, all kinds of people you got to call if the plant goes down. If you need parts in the middle of the night, you call the purchasing manager to get the part you need. Stanky had just called the purchasing manager (we'll call him Ike) an hour or so before he tried to send the text to his wife. Ike and Stanky had not had a very productive conversation, Stanky wasn't happy because he couldn't get the part he wanted and Ike was not happy because he had already turned in for the night. Later on, Stanky types in the message for his wife "I love you darling, have a good night." Insead of sending it to his wife, he ends up sending this message to Ike, the purchasing manager.

The next day at the moring meeting in front of about a dozen people, Ike says that he was really touched by the message that Stanky had sent him. He reads it to everyone at the meeting, including Stanky.

I bet Stanky is already signed up for Tigertext.