April 8, 2010
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My First Text From My Mom
While trying to find an old text message from a friend recently, I stumbled upon my mom’s first (and only *cross fingers*) text she has ever sent me. My parents are not cell phone savvy at all, so the fact she even figured out how to send it still surprises me upon recollection.
It happened during my trip to New York this past winter break. I had gone up with a couple of old friends and I definitely told her that. I’ve gone on further trips than New York recently, so for her to send me this worrying text during this trip seemed a bit confusing. How come she didn’t send one to me when I went up to New York by myself last year? Nonetheless, below was the very urgent message she wanted to relay to me that evening:
Wait, is there even any quiet areas in New York?What the..?? Oh, you bet my friends sure had a good laugh after seeing that. I think my mom and I should just stick with regular phone calls from now on. Let this text message be the last one she’ll ever send me! Please?
…hmm, just had a scarier thought; what if my grandma ever figures out how to text me?? *Shudders*
P.S. If you were wondering, “I C E” stands for “In Case of Emergency”. My mom is not Iceman’s mother. Sorry to disappoint.
Comments (164)
my mom sends terrible texts too… she does terrible emails and IMs also…haha she doesn’t even spell out my name. she just writes the first letter.
Your secret is out. I’m taking this for your next interview!!!
If my Grandma texted me… I would die.
But my mom recently figured out the cell phone and has been texting me since. Her favourite thing is to shorten everything, taking out vowels. The Turnstyle became trstl… She got mad when I responded “wtf?”
LOL whaaaat?
@sonychak - haha, like on gossip girl… “S”
OH! That’s cute!
I think it’s sweet! Thank god my mom doesn’t know any english and I can’t read or write chinese or it would be dangerous…
Lol my gramma DOES text me… and IM’s once in a while… and took advantage of Fb as the grandkids were getting into it… and <3′s e-mail… lol.
We’re cool like that
LOLLLL so funny
Haha. I have my mom send me weird texts too. She mostly says extremely mushy stuff…
but your grandma is adorable and that’d be super cute if she texted you
LMAO. This is EPIC! And to think you saved this on your phone.
Anyway, my mom just sends me “blank” messages most of the time. O_o
hahaha aww.
man NEVER teach your grandma how to text… mine never stops now.
my mom texts more than I do, it annoys me.
hahahahaha …fob texts are always funny. you should respond back with to her by texting her message the right way. lol i use to make fun of my mom for that.
@d_ciao - she should write “SOY” for now on.
haha that’s great. thankfully my mother hasn’t figured out text messaging yet, so I’m still safe…… for now.
@sonychak - Now that’s lazy. Yeah, my mom calling me son felt weird. She usually says my name or Chinese name.
@Da__Vinci - What secret? I have no secrets at all…
@breaking_expectations - wtf?? Oh man, that would be mad confusing.
@d_ciao - Idk, please figure that out.
@And_I_love - Oh yes, my friends sure thought that was cute T__T
@Utoppia@datingish - Yes, wait until your mom does something like this and see if it’s still cute =P
lol.
You aren’t Iceman?
@theacematt2 - Haha that’s cool. My parents and grandma are totally not in the technology generation, so it would freak me out if my grandma was like yours.
@Axis_of_Doom - Ahh. Yes, part of the reason why I didn’t reply by text. Did not want to encourage this behavior!
@everchanginglife09 - Maybe the first time or two. I have a feeling I’ll be getting text every hour asking me if I’m hungry, which would not be cute XP
@oxyGENE_08 - My phone just saves everything haha. I almost forgot about this one.
@JustPlainMorgie - To be honest, I’m not totally sure my grandma knows how a cell really works. Yes!
@jeannie_dot_com - I would, but I definitely do not want to encourage this behavior for the future!
@ailili - I hope for your sake she doesn’t in the near future =P
lol! thats exactly what my mom texted me once. word for word. scary, huh? i guess all chinese mom’s think alike
well besides the “son” part of course.
@CatherineMarshmallow - Seriously? So you went to New York too and she text something like this to you? Wowzers
@Thatslifekid - I know, I’m not cool (no pun intended)
@Roadlesstaken - yepp. she got worried because i was going there with my friends. she thought i was going to get robbed too and make me go home as soon as it got dark. -_- shes such a worry wart. haha
Oh yeah, I remember, some websites recommend you put ICE in front of emergency contacts, right?
@Roadlesstaken - I just thought maybe I had a superhero friend on xanga.
My mom was the same way, but now she’s pro. She’s also pro at using computers and going on Facebook. haha
@CatherineMarshmallow - Ah I see. It’s just odd she was more concern about me when I was with some old friends than when I went totally by myself. Eh?
@Wangium - Yep, I remember seeing that somewhere as a recommendation in case you get in an accident and someone wanted to find your closest contact asap.
@Thatslifekid - If I was, should I really say so in public?
@fLiPgUy31O - My parents on Facebook? *More shudders*
@Roadlesstaken - this is true. plus, it’s not like you’re a little kid. I’m pretty sure you’re capable of taking care of yourself.
I guess parents will always worry about their children. Especially asian parents. 
cute…my mom doesn’t have a cell phone and I think that’s super cool!
FOBUROUS!
My mom doesn’t have a cell phone. And her english is much better…otherwise I could totally see her doing something like this.
@Roadlesstaken - How about you send your grandma my way and she can feed me 10x a day
that is pretty hilarious. I’m glad my mom doesn’t know how to send texts (yet)!
Oh wow. My mom’s first text message was: do u want card o r thadsha. She had just gotten a phone too, so I didn’t recognize the number and I had no idea what she was trying to say, so I texted back: Who is this?:S..and she goes your mom..crazy child. And I was like ohh..and then I called her and she was trying to ask if I wanted a card for my friend Thadsha. While I thought some guy found some card of mine and I had to choose between a card or my friend. That night, I was like mom, please just call me if you need anything.
Mom’s should never text unless they know what their doing!
Am I the only one who still didn’t understand the text…?
haha
What does “are you guy in” mean? OMG I JUST GOT IT! Guys?
@CaKaLusa - ahahahahahahahahahaha. Best word EVER.
LOL. the ice thing made me laugh even harder than the text thing but that’s adorable that she attempted to text you =]
My dad texts me weird things English all the time, it takes a while to figure it out but it usually ends with “call me dad”
@aJoLLyDork - I don’t mind her contacting me because when she talks on the phone it’s fine. This though…just no.
@repressedwriter - The funny thing is she doesn’t sound this fobby in real life! How did it get so fobby in the text??
@roooosah - I hope for your sake she doesn’t =P
@throughsamseyes - Hahaha, I love how you thought it was like an ultimatum made by a random guy
@OhItWontBeForever - Yes! You got it haha
@nycstar19 - I sometimes forget I have my mom and dad in my contacts like that and people always comment on it. Thought I should preemptively strike that!
@babixling - haha nice. He should just cut out the middle man and have no more texting.
lmfao. oh man. i rmemeber when my mom first texted me. -.-
That text isn’t that bad on the whole though. My mom sends text just like that, if not a bit more with punctuation.
how do you KNOW your mom isn’t Iceman’s mother? eh?
I actually text my mom probably more frequently than I text anyone else. but I don’t text all that much, and my mom is pretty cool. but my grandma… eesh. the entire family is devoted to keeping her from getting a facebook account.
haha. My mom texts her sister chain letters, but I don’t have texting on my phone, and now I’m glad. Thank you for making me feel like less of an outcast. =p
My mom figured out how to text too. It was scary at first, but now that I think about it…I love it
It’s sweet and funny to see her put the efforts in.
haha my mom’s texts are always like one or two words because she can’t text either, so I call her instead.
movie: Serial Mom (a dark comedy of homemakers everywhere)
haahaha hella cute. ur mom texts you. dudde i dont think my mom eeven knows how to send a text. no lie. ur mom smarter than other azn moms. no lie.
Awwwwwhhhhh
that’s sweet
LOL that’s funny. My mom doesn’t know how to text she can barely use my cell phone. Yes, she’s actually got my cell phone while I have no voice to use it, so whenever she calls my dad it comes up as APRIL on his display and he always answers it “Hi, April” while I am sitting right by him.. he think it’s so funny. haha
There was awhile back when my dad first realized that our phones took pics and he could send them to me.. and I was at college, and he’d be sending me stupid pics of my mom sitting in the living room reading and stuff. He stopped after I told him that they cost over a dollar a pic (or something like that) to send (and he was on MY cell phone plan..) lol
What can you do though? You gotta love ‘em. And your mom is SO cute too!! lol
that’s embarrassing?
@npr32486 - I suppose it could have been worse.
Hahahaha, my mom texts me ALL the time. I got out of work one day and had 6 unread messages: 5 from her.
@randaness - She’s not, I know Iceman’s real mom personally.
@sumoneoverthere - I guess it could have been more incriminating haha.
@razzle_dazzle_lip_gloss - Don’t see yourself as an outcast for that! Apparently a lot of people’s moms are like that =P
@MoonCity - Hmmm, I wonder if I would feel that way after a while. However, not sure if I want to take the time to find out haha
@indiechaos - One/two words text? I think I would be fine with that.
@azndood4you - Noooo why must she be smarter? Noooo….
@Fireflywishes - Haha that’s funny. It kind of reminds me of a time I accidentally sent my dad a picture of my friend. He was like “why did you send me a picture of a girl laying down??” (It was my friend btw, I wasn’t creeping!)
@ImperialDoctrinesOfTheNewWorld - What kind of things is she saying?
@Roadlesstaken - I work at the library, so she was asking me to get a book, and sent it five times. But usually she asks if i’m having fun yet, or if I need to be picked up yet.
That’s cute, but I understand your pain. =)
you should have texted her back with “ice mom” as in “chill mom” ;P
Thank GOD my parents don’t know how to text. My mom knows how to check texts that I send to her when I have no other choice, and I made the mistake of using “lol wtf” one time and she got mad at me -_-
hahaha. cuteeeeeeeee!!
usually my text from my mom, including my dad would be: “no sex, no drugs, no boys, and no drinking.” :pp
Awww that was cute!
You should consider submitting that to mymomisafob.com
I guess she texted because it might be not as embarassed as a phone call right? But your mom is hip and cool like that!
@nepenthium - lammmme =P
@jumpthenfly - did she understand those acronyms?
@chouatwinkie - Oh my. I guess that’s a good catch all text.
@giggle_face - Haha good idea.
@retarded_beautiful - I feel like the phone call wouldn’t have been as embarrassing sounding as the text haha
yeah when i saw the ICE I remember those chain mails to put that in my phone. Lol your mom sounds hilarious. other than that it’s sweet of you to put that.
@Roadlesstaken - I apologize for not being cool enough to hang with bobbyalex and his icemom.
Lol…. u should meet my mom,! she would text me in viet and i’d text her back in english, yet she understands but doesnt speak it…..weird.. she figured out texting and she texts non stop to her friends, its ridiculous! she ended up having to get the unlimited texting plan. lol . man…. i cant wait til she learns to use the internet on the phone.
LOL LOL that is so cute! Quiet areas are the most dangerous, take heed! My dad got facebook not too long ago but thank god he doesn’t understand the concept of posting on people’s walls.
@Roadlesstaken - nope it’s all good, i use that too. people also get confused. i just never looked at it as the ice man thing LOL
haha this is cute, made me laugh.
@CuaSo - Are you friends with him? I wouldn’t friend mine if he had one haha
@UyenLovesYou - I have a feeling my mom would be texting all her friends once she gets the hang of it. Shoot, she may already have started…
@SUGARCANEkitty - Chain mail….I wonder if that’s where I got that idea from? I think I saw it on snopes.com
I think it’s cute when my dad texts me, because he formats it like an email or a letter, with a spaced line separating the “dear (name),” from the rest of the body paragraph
of course, it leaves a large gap of spacing in the text.
@Roadlesstaken - haha gosh you’re harsh! Yeah I’m friends with him. I’ve even posted on his wall… but he never replied. I feel so rejected. Daddy issues!!!
lol well, at least I had a good laugh out of that lol xD ice man mother lol that’s funny! lol if my mom ever figure that out, I would like ignore it lol xD
@Roadlesstaken - Yeah then most likely you got it as chain mail. Snopes is the keeper of all those trying to figure out where those things originated. it was pretty clever. “ICE- in case of emergency”
Lol! awesome! Even more people will laugh now that u posted it!
LMAO And there are a lot of quiet areas in New York. It’s scary to walk through at night, even when you’re with someone else.
I love when my mom leaves voice mail messages…I get a good kick out of em’ haha =)
@Roadlesstaken - She was like “w-t-f……w-t-f…..AIYAA WAAA….JOYCE.”
me: “what?” *innocent look*
her: “what else could WTF mean?! bad girl!!!! don’t you ever say those words again!”
me: “i didn’t say them…”
her: “YOU GET WHAT I MEAN.” *glare*
I block texting on my parent’s phones too
my mom sounds like a teenage girl when she texts me. “omg r u watching amrcan idol?
” is usually the most common.
Bahahaha this still cracks me up
i remember my grandma’s first text ever. a jumble of letters that somehow seemed to make sense to her. the next day she forgot how to find “create new message” option in her cell phone, so she hasnt ever texted since then
My dad texts like he’s drunk, it’s pretty great. My name gets shortened to “KK” because apparently ‘Kaeli” is too difficult to tpye. Blackberry’s + sausage fingers = no good. =P
That’s great!
@Wangium - Yeah, I’ve heard that before. Of course I would think that in an emergency, I’m going to just look at the last person dialed from the phone and call them.
my mom writes me notes on the kitchen table and they’re full of scribbles of wrongly spelled words. i love how every asian parent likes to use ok without a question mark or anything. you can just imagine them saying it.
i hope my parents NEVER learn to text
oh your grandma knows how to text; she just much rather text your mom. JK JK JK !
LOL that is absolutely sweet of her though to figure out how to text you. to answer your question: oddly enough, there are quiet areas in nyc. but its only at night around 1130-ish depending on where you are. for example if you’re in city hall and wall st at 11:30 at night, it is absolutely dead.
that’s pretty tech savvy! my mom wouldn’t know how to text…but my dad can.
And now that I think about it…pretty much all dad’s with blackberry’s! lol
The first text I ever received from my mom said something like “Suit scaring the pants off me” and I was like WHAAAt the FUuuuuuu….? I asked her what was going on… If she was ok and if her pants were intact. She explained that she was trying to tell me to stop scaring her by texting her, that her phone makes a car horn beep noise when she receives a text, and she was driving at the time and it scared her. I was like “OoooooH… that totally… uhm… explains everything… but not really…” Lol.
Your mom sounds very sweet btw. I would worry about you finding quiet areas in New York too… because that probably means that you broke the time-space continuum…
@Roadlesstaken - he likes to text me (= even if I will be seeing him in half an hour….
My dad would ask me text someone for him because it takes a while for him to do it.
My mom never send me text messages. She calls directly.
I think she did a pretty good job.
I have my mom listed as “ICE Mom”, too, haha. c[:
My dad is bad, too. When he gets a text, he’ll usually have me reply to it for him xD
LOL. My mom is not tech saavy either. Last night I was trying to walk her through how to put up pictures on Facebook. It was so frustrating!
@PEEKatchuXD - Haha, do you ever try to correct him or just let it be?
@BabyGurlDragon88 - ICE Mom is where it’s at. You should try it.
@Stop_That_Squirrel - I’m kinda glad my mom didn’t use acronyms. I’m not ready for that haha
@Agent_Spanky - Really? Where??
@Trigger821 - You don’t have text at all now right?
@carpe_diem99 - Awesome, that was a close one!
@kaelicameron - Hmm, wonder why he doesn’t just say K then. There isn’t two Ks in your name!
@Meowmeowkimmaee - Whoa you’re right, I totally did imagine that without realizing it.
@Yuzuaneemo - I would be fine with that =P
@jenniferxo821 - Oh interesting. Darn, I guess my mom did have a point then.
@Dobserver - My dad actually choose to downgrade to the most basic type of cell you can get now. He doesn’t want to deal with the extra crap haha
@pianomusicchick - Haha nice story. Wait, you don’t regularly break the time/space continuum?
@HelloImOddy - At that point I would say that defeats the purpose of texting and he should just call haha
@icapillas - That’s alright with me! That’s what I’m used to.
@wtf_turmoill - ICE Moms ftw!
@TheCheshireGrins - See, if my mom had Facebook I would block her haha. SO not ready for that yet.
@Roadlesstaken - I don’t really care. I have the personal philosophy of not putting anything on the internet that I would be embarrassed for my fam to see on the 6:00 pm news
@TheCheshireGrins - I’m like that too. Still, it’s weird for me because I don’t want my family to know all about what I’m doing on a regular basis haha.
@Roadlesstaken - I generally try not to break the time-space continuum… I think that causes really scary and sometimes indestructible monsters to appear… Or it could just cause Pokemon to actually exist… Hmm Maybe I should try it!
Haha that’s awesome. My parents are in their late thirties I think? So they know how to text so it’s really annoying because I get them all the time.
Man! Even scarier when my dad tried to follow my twitter!!! LoL
YES.
I think that’s really all there is to say hahah.
HAHAHAHA Thumbs up for mom.
I actually wouldn’t mind my mom texting. It’s the difficulty of having to TEACH her that frustrates me….THAT in her just now wanting to txt because her boyfriend texts.
That’s just sad for me. I’m single. She has a year long boyfriend AND wants to learn to txt, goes out clubbing with him, and out to eat all the time….I’m 18. This woman who gave birth to me is 43!! I feel like the mom =/
“What time are you coming home?”
“Ay! Que te importa!” Translation “Omg it’s none of your business!”
ha. I bet my mom doesn’t know how to send a text. She can’t even turn her phone off. she always asks me. I’m surprised she can navigate around on facebook!
@pianomusicchick - That’s what Pokeballs are for my friend: GOTTA CATCH’EM ALL!!
your lucky you even get them … been trying to get my mom to send me text rather than call while in a meeting and its like pulling teeth lol
@JerseySEO01 - Well when you put it that way…I suppose texting would be a better route =P
@valeriebeth04 - I hope my mom never has to find a need to navigate facebook haha
@christina_believe - Very interesting dynamic you have with your mom!
@krestsna - have you ever thought about blocking him?
@isingstupidsongs - My mom is around that age, so it doesn’t surprise me she would eventually learn how to text. It’s just…weird XP . Not used to it.
@Roadlesstaken - LoL I just left it pending and told him he probably did it wrong cus I never got the invite hahahaha
That’s awesome! I love the texts like that, they make me giggle
Even if they are a bit ill-timed or awkward.
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ice mom, hahahahahaha. lol. you’re a funny one, alex.
At least she spelled everything right, and figured out the space button… My mom was sending me texts for MONTHS that read something like, “hi.this.is.mom.c.u.tonit.at.dnnr.”
And my mother in law tried to text me once… But I think that was from her home phone. Either way, I got a text in all caps with only half of a phone number to call back to.
haha how cute.
it reminds me of tidbits from mymomisafob.com !
Yeah, I get chills everytime my mom texts me. It just seems…wrong.
You know what’s also weird? Getting a text from your friend’s mom.
i wouldn’t mind
haha…my Mom has never sent a text to me…ever lol…and she wont chat with me either
This is sweet…I am getting more phone savvy and I text and take pictures and all sorts of stuff…My sister age 67 is a texting fool I must get a dozen or more a day and all hours of the night I think she just wants to know if I am up too
hahaha oh, my grandma texts. the first text I got from her was “Ggh.”
I think she was trying to say “hey”
why she still sent it after she realized it didn’t in fact say hey is beyond me. lmfao
but me and my dad have a good laugh about that even to this day.
hahaha! I love this. Reminds me of when my parents first learned how to text.
im glad my dad wont ever try to text me… he hates the whole concept of texting.
@Roadlesstaken - LOL Everywhere! Not every part of NYC can be all lights, crowd and noises.
My first text from my mom was
“You left your tennis bag at home. Want me to drop it off for you during your lunch period?”
I never knew my mom knew English that well
Lol thats funny, still
@skylar_rose - Poems seems to be a good channel for you. Keep it up!
@Shy___Away - Haha oh that would be annoying. Wait, one can text from a home phone??
@clove - I just sent this text pic to them!
@macphoto - So you want her to text you?
@SisterMom1954 - Ah that’s cool! Yeah, at least amongst my family I’m not used to anyone older than me being technologically savvy.
@raspberryjade - perhaps she thought it would fix itself when it got to you? Haha, I’m probably wrong.
@VAngelique8892 - I think my dad’s the same way too.
@Agent_Spanky - Will you be at the NY meet this summer? Show me then if so!
@Dylan_Disast3r - That’s a mighty fine text. Does she text better than she speaks?
hahaha that’s so cute.
I’m so glad my dad doesn’t have texting…
but the real question is, did you stay away from the quiet area?
ICE ICE, Baby! LOL, just couldn’t resist.
@tsotofu - Oh I did…because I didn’t find any! haha
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haha. Your mom is so asian.
HI ALEX!
@HyperHTL - Well hi stranger! Always a pleasure to hear from you.
Oh my Mom and I text all the time. I love it. And my Nana knows how to text…I’ve only ever gotten one text from her though. I think it’s cool!
-giggles- Oh Alex. I love your Mommy. She’s adorable.
AWWW LOL your mom is too sweet
@KyohakuMegami - Haha maybe one day I’ll think it’s cool. For now, I’m just so not used to that.
Hahaha I know how you feel. My mom recently learned to use
and now uses it everywhere. But I laugh and I honestly think it’s cute/sweet haha.
@x_onholiday - Perhaps it will grow on me =P
The best part about this is the fact that my grandmother DOES text me. She even got a phone that she can hardly work so she could “text better.” It’s the strangest thing when I give her a hug goodbye to return from college and she says “Text me when you get home!” Yes. It’s creepy.
And here I was hoping that I wouldn’t have to worry about “mom, I’m coming home so don’t panic okay?!” phone calls when I get older. -_____-
It’s sheer Asian obsessiveness. *sigh* Well, let’s be glad your mother still cares about you. I guess she didn’t know what else to say, haha.
There are pros & cons tagging ICE next to your emergency contacts. If your phone got into someone’s hand, he/she may easily get your ATM pin number from your contact via sms for instance. I always use nickname in my phone contacts, never use Honey, Darling, Mom, Pa etc which can easily identify my relationship to my contact.
That’s so sweet of your mom. My mom has never texted me before… thank god no one teaches her yet =D Owh I am a terrible daughter.
It could have been worse…at least you weren’t gay in New York. LOL
Such a caring words… lucky son you are.
@DilogicalDisorder - That’s pretty interesting. I’m guessing she’s texting other people too besides you?
@christykim - As much as I complain about it, my mom tells me I will always be her boy that she worries about.
@Jyakku - True. Good thing I don’t lose my phone ever and that no one else besides me knows my pin number.
@stray_sparrow - You’re terrible for not teaching your mom how to text? What does that make me?? haha
@CareyGLY - ”Son are you gay in newyork yet?” Hahahahahahaha oh man, that would be hilarious.
@RestlessButterfly - I suppose so =)
Luckily my mom doesn’t know how to use text messaging and doesn’t want to learn. My dad is getting to know technology, just got a new crackberry…my god…LOL
@Roadlesstaken - Not really. My uncle occasionally. She just likes to be into the “new” stuff. She’s a Facebook creeper too.
OMG that is soo cute!. my dad tries to send me msges too. ever since I taught him how to send msges (pics msges included) his been going crazy .. everything he can send he will. .. he would take pics of foood and send me ” want to eat ?”
My dad sent me texts before. “kim come home okay” hahaha <3 my fobby daddy.
@kikileta - You unleashed a sleeping dragon =P
@xkthily - Haha, did he send you those type of texts when we met up in DC?
@Roadlesstaken - He sent those when I went out somewhere. I couldn’t receive calls, so I text him saying I would be late. lol Randomly he would also text me saying he misses me. lol cute
there are no “quiet” areas in NYC, besides the dark alleys where you’ll end up as the corpse on Law & Order.
ah mothers. LOL. *sigh
hahahaha nice text there
How neato!
HAHAHA. My mom does this constantly. I always must decipher her texts, but they never cease to bring amusement. She’s had her phone for years now and always brags about how she majored in Computer Science..lol. Back when the computers were sizes of entire rooms and they had punch cards. Okay, Mom!
I love her.
@Shopgirl0393 - Yeah, I don’t think her computer experience is very relevant now haha
lol I put the “ICE” in front of my mom and dad’s numbers too! I read in an article it was a good thing to do. I’ve always thought it was funny, because it looks like ice mom or ice dad…like wtf is that? haha
@katelynkolb - It is a bit funny looking, but I think it’s cool (no pun intended)