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This isn’t exactly proud papa news: My daughter, Reina, who recently turned 13, just racked up 14,528 text messages in one month.<\/p>\n
Thank God she’s too young to drive.<\/p>\n
Given that she’s\u00a0had a cell phone for less than six months, and she is supposed to share the phone with her 14-year-old brother (and use it mainly for emergencies) \u2014 well, I’m speechless.<\/p>\n
Or should I say, textless?<\/p>\n
Her mother, Manako, recently got the phone bill from AT&T. Only 23 pages of the bill came with the bill mailed to her home in Lake Forest.<\/p>\n
Manako went online and looked at the PDF version of the bill. The PDF file, covering the period from Nov. 27 to Dec. 26, totaled 440 pages.<\/p>\n
OK, the bill included charges for two other phones, including one belonging to Reina’s 22-year-old sister, Hana, who accounted for a comparatively modest 7,101 text messages during the same period. Older sister Marina, 24, accounted for a measly (whew!) 700.<\/p>\n
But still\u2026A 440-page phone bill? Thankfully, Manako signed up all of them for unlimited texting.<\/p>\n
If not, the 20 cents per text for Reina would have totaled $2,905.60.<\/p>\n
That’s a lot of house chores.<\/p>\n