When I heard the sound for a new text last night, I glanced at the clock and wondered who’d be sending me a message so late. Curious, I picked up the phone to look, and I was immediately pissed off.

One. I pay for wireless service, not ad-supported wireless service, and I pay a lot for it. Two. It’s irrelevant that the text was free and did not apply to my limit. It’s okay for AT&T to send messages to verify changes to my account or something, but it’s not okay to annoy me with advertising. Three. Of all things, they sent an advert for…American Idol? I think that might be what pissed me off the most of all because it’s an idiotic program, and I’d rather have Billy Mays spend an hour trying to sell me a Sham-Wow than watch even one episode of American Idiot (and I think that both Billy Mays and the headset-wearing dumbass who actually hawks the Sham-Wow should DIAF).

Even worse, I had to opt-out of something to which I’d never opted-in (it’s a word…now) in the first place! Would anyone really be stupid enough to not opt-out? Seriously…who wants to be texted with marketing?!