Text Rules

August 10, 2008

I’m generally against hard-and-fast rules about communication protocol. But every now and then, I stumble upon an insight about something I’ve been doing unconsciously and/or unplanned that seems to work. So with that caveat, I was discussing this with David the other day (who is now having many great adventures in Singapore), and here is my text messaging protocol. You send a girl a text, and she responds in…

0-10 minutes: get back to her immediately
10-50 minutes: wait equivalent with deviation of 20%, unless necessitated by logistics. So if she writes back in thirty minutes, 20% of that is 6 minutes; get back to her anywhere between 24 to 36 minutes. Unless you’re going clubbing, trying to get lots of friends together for a big party or dinner, or something else where you need to know how many people are going to be there, or deal with a guestlist.
1 hr to 6 hours: wait twelve hours before writing back.

It is dorky and it seems to work. But again, rules are broken all the time and love still happens.

Bootcamp went awesome this weekend; our clients were INCREDIBLE; fun, optimistic, and really good guys. I am still getting over a sinus infection from a week ago and dealing with a wicked cough, actually had to excuse myself briefly and pick up a bottle of robitussin around 1 AM last night. Echinacea tea this morning in preparation for the afternoon.

Posted by Christian | Filed Under Dating Done Right