Texts from boys. They can be exciting, funny or verging on illiterate. Like snowflakes, they’re all unique. In their willingness to throw in an emoji or leave out the vowels in words, texts from guys can get confusing fast. Here’s a list of the texts you’ll inevitably get from boys during your college career.
“Hey me and my roommate are just drinking and hanging out you should come over.”
Here the boy lets the allure of his dank, sparsely furnished all-male apartment speak for itself. With the promise of couches spotted with questionable stain marks and hours of idling watching his roommates play Xbox, this is a hard offer to shoot down, but you probably still should.
“Which pages of the homework did we need to have done for Wednesday?”
You introduced yourself to the cute boy in the row in front you three months ago and it’s finally paid off. He may never answer any other of your attempts at conversation, and he sidesteps the desk next to him to avoid walking out with you, but he’s just being coy. Treat this text as your signal to add him and all his friends on Facebook.
“Are you mad about Sunday or something?”
You probably are mad about Sunday. Or something. The poetic vagueness of this text informs the reader that the sender, while absolutely knowing you’re mad about Sunday, still holds hope that maybe you’ve just been thinking about global warming a lot, a testament to his perseverance in the face of adversity.
“Yooooooooooo”
Usually sent at 2 a.m. from the boy who only has your number from a group project you completed last semester, this text can be the most elusive. Is he attempting to rekindle your completely platonic academic relationship? Trying to sell you drugs? You’ll never respond, but the mystery of it all will stay with you always.
For some, texting allows for relaxed conversations with time to contemplate and respond with care. For others, it’s free range for letting their inner weird come out with you on the receiving end. Whether you ignore them or stockpile them into screenshots on your phone, appreciate boy texts for the artwork that they are.
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