My Emoji Imagination

I just got a smartphone. Yesterday. Before that I had a...phone phone. It made calls. It could text. It could take pictures, but not sufficiently for my needs. (By that I mean, the day I saw an alligator in the neighborhood, the picture I took made it look like a sort-of-alligator-shaped shadow in the distance.)

If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know that I am a bit technology resistant. I gave up on our TV system long ago. Laptops seem to crash whenever I walk into a room. So adapting to this new device that could probably take the place of my brain if I set it up properly is a big adjustment for me.

Except for one part: emojis. I love emojis! When people used to send me emojis on my old phone, the images came out as weird empty boxes. But now I can see them! And even more importantly, send them! My new very favorite thing to do as of 10 minutes ago is to send random emojis that have nothing to do with whatever messages are going back and forth between me and the other person.

Me to daughter at college: How are you doing?
Daughter: Studying for finals.
Me: Hang in there. (emoji of bunnies followed by a choo-choo train followed by something that looks like sumo wrestlers)

The funniest part of all this is that people are somehow finding meaning behind my randomness.

Daughter: Do you mean I am the Little Engine That Could?

No! But okay! I'll take it. So now the obvious question is: Can absolutely any emoji make sense at any time? And what if I just send a whole line of emojis? Toilet, camel, helicopter, winky face. Who even needs words? How could I possibly make a sentence with words that could top toilet, camel, helicopter, winky face?

Obviously, I can't. So all I have to say is: