One day while driving a few colleagues to lunch at Ramenya on Olympic Blvd, one of my passengers discovered a cell phone under one of the seats. The phone wasn’t mine and although I had a pretty good idea whose phone it was, I gave her permission to look through the phone and discover the owner. She went straight for the recent text messages and found some juicy messages between my buddy and a girl who was definitely not playing coy.

The whole time at Ramenya we poured over these texts and painted a very detailed picture of this texty tryst and the two people involved. My coworkers deduced that my friend was a metrosexual Spaniard who was playing hard to get with a  fiesty red head who partied too much. A week after returning the phone, my colleague, who discovered the phone, sent me a blog which is centered around spying and interpreting strangers’ text messages.

The Leila Texts is a blog where errant text messages are analyzed and mocked by Leila. They are actually intended for another Leila, but through some kind of glitch in Verizon’s network, two Leila’s get the message. Some of these texts are hilarious. Here are a couple recent ones including blogger Leila’s commentary:

 ‘Tell your steaming drunk mother you love her before you go; she may not be there to comfort when you discover your first flash of zen. . .’
from a 916 phone number, Friday, April 25, 8:39 PM

The quotation marks indicate this line must be a quote from something. But what? Google brings up nothing. Can anyone out there name that book/movie/song/inside joke?

Baby last night was so good:-)
from a 702 phone number, Friday, April 18, 7:10 PM

I feel pretty eh toward the emoticon at the end of this sentence. Presumably 702 and Leila shared a wild night of passion, and a colon-hyphen-closed parenthesis seems somehow to minimize the night’s significance. Also, don’t you think 7 PM is a little late in the next day to be talking about how good the previous night was? I’d think such a statement should come by 5 PM at the latest. Then again, I guess it depends on when you woke up.

Posted by Leila at 9:12 AM 2 comments

1 down, ten billion to go.
from a 707 phone number, Friday, April 18, 2:45 PM

This could be referring to any number of things. One exam down, ten billion to go? One CD burned, ten billion to go? One child home from school, ten billion to go? My writerly feedback is that I like the phrasing for I admire hyperbole, yet I would urge some clarification.

Posted by Leila at 9:08 AM 0 comments

One of the best entries is actually a 3-part text between a couple who realize that blogger Leila is receiving and posting their texts. One of them eventually asks for advice related to an earlier text. Check it.

The bottom line is that other people’s text messages are funny so read them whenever possible.

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