Self Confessed ‘Bad Replier’ Pretty Good At Spending 6 Hours Scrolling Reels

PETE CLARK | Melbourne | CONTACT

A young man's attempt to highlight one of his technological shortcomings has inadvertently highlighted another. 

Jacob Hargrove (26) has today apologised to his mate for failing to reply to his message in an adequate and reasonable time frame.

The message, which simply read, “Pub?” was completely ignored for more than 24 hours. 

Mr Hargrove thought he’d conjured a reasonably defensible, albeit overly used defence. 

“Fuck mate I only just saw this, I’m such a bad replier”Being a ‘bad replier’ reduces your responsibility as a texter and subtly implies that you’re not glued to your phone like everybody else. 

Unfortunately for Hargrove the logic of his self imbued moniker falls apart once his phone usage is more closely scrutinized. 

With his daily screen time approaching 8 hours and the majority of that time spent scrolling through reels, it seems unlikely that he missed the text. 

When pressed about the contradiction in his story, he crumbled.

“Ok so I saw the message but I got distracted!”

“It’s just so much easier to put yourself in the ‘bad replier’ category then to tell the truth”

“What am I supposed to say? Yeh mate I saw your message but I couldn’t be fucked responding so I went back to scrolling, that’s some psycho shit.”

“We all know that saying sorry for being a bad replier is code for sorry I got distracted looking at shit on Marketplace or Instagram. Do we really need to bring attention to it?”

More to come.