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The World's Best Trick To Stop Annoying Texts And E-mails

Great trick,  if your 'friends' text you (works equally well with e-mail) too much. Send them a text that says, simply; "Important: ignore my last text." It'll work best, if it's been at least a day since you last texted.  It'll make them crazy.

Not just from the "What did he say?, What did I miss?"-angle, but also from the standpoint that your text buddy will think something is wrong with his/her device.

When they ask, say if they never got it, and you'd prefer not to revisit the issue: that's why you texted them to ignore it. Mwaa ha ha ha...

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