So we all know that drinking and driving is bad, but what about drinking and … texting?
What is drunk texting? It’s when you text a friend or significant other while under the influence.
It may be easy to blame your behavior, phone calls and texts on the alcohol, but a study has found this may no longer be a valid excuse. Researchers asked participants to drink alcohol before completing error recognition tasks on a computer. They measured their responses using brain patterns and self-reporting.
Those who drank alcohol were as aware as placebo and sober groups that they were making a mistake, but the research discovered that they cared less.
This suggests that alcohol doesn’t inhibit our ability to know what we’re doing, but instead it inhibits our inability to feel guilt, remorse or shame about it. Additionally, it suggests drinking makes people more honest and less likely to hold back out of fear of the consequences.
One probably shouldn’t text and drink.
Drinking and texting can be fun and unintentional, but also misleading. I had a friend who texted me while under the influence earlier this school year. He was basically hitting on me. He went on to tell me things he wanted to do with me in rich detail. I knew that he was drunk because I was with him earlier and he had a lot to drink.
The later the night got, the more explicit he got. He repeatedly called me and texted me. His texts were flattering, but I knew he was under the influence and talking to him about these would have to wait until he was sober. I got constant text messages and phone calls from him all the way until I went to bed.
Now here’s the crazy part: I then wake up to a text message the next morning saying “Sorry, I didn’t mean to send those to you, they were meant for someone else.” Someone else with the exact name and nickname as me? I don’t think so. This really upset me because it showed that he was being a really big coward, and it also showed he was trying to insult my intelligence. I’m not stupid or slow by a long shot. I’m not oblivious. I pick up on clues quick and I don’t believe just anything. You can’t fool me. I don’t appreciate people who don’t have the decency to drunk text someone only to not own up to it the next day. If you had the courage to send those texts, you should have the courage to own up to what you said when you’re sober too. That isn’t fair to the other people involved.
Doing things like that makes you seem like a huge coward and a jerk.
Don’t ever play games with people. If this happens to you, don’t be afraid to confront that person. It’s the only way you can try and make sense of it. If you don’t, their cowardly actions in fear of embarrassment might just leave you in the dark with some very important questions.
Don’t be a coward by not telling them how much of a coward they’re being.
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