Now your child doesn't look so bad with their few hundred messages a month right? Can you imagine!!

A 13 year old girl sent a record breaking 14,528 text messages in one month forcing AT&T to mail out a 440 page bill to her parents. At first, the father thought it was a big joke, but then got down on his hands and knees and thanked the LORD that he has an unlimited plan for $30! Otherwise, the family would have owed almost $3,000 for his daughter's messaging alone.

"First, I laughed. I thought, 'That's insane, that's impossible,' " the 45-year-old dad said. "And I immediately whipped out the calculator to see if it was humanly possible."

He found it was - barely.

It works out to 484 text messages a day, or one every two minutes of every waking hour.

"Then I thought maybe AT&T made some mistake on the bill," said Hardesty, of Silverado Canyon. The reporter for the Orange County Register grilled his daughter on her texting habit - by text message, of course.

The girl just doesn't stop - even when she is sitting right next to her friends.

Reina had a karaoke birthday party, and while other people were singing, she was texting her best friend sitting right next to her.

Average teens clock in at around 1,700 texts a month by the way.

Saw this story. It made me really sad.

1. Sad that she was given attention for it.
2. Sad that she is so socially inept she has to hide behind a phone, even sitting next to someone.
3. Sad the father didn't smash the phone.

Mars23 said:

I agree. That's beyond ridiculous.