Watch your mouth gals

For the last 10 days, I've been traipsing around San Diego (and L.A. for an impromptu 2 day jaunt). It was fun, tiring, exciting, exhausting, expensive, etc...Everything you expect a vacation to be, especially when surrounded by upwards of 60 of your boyfriend's closest family members for the better part of the trip.

Anyway, while in L.A., Dan and I met a girl who found out the hard way, that a dictionary is a very useful tool and should consulted for any and all text messages regarding hanky panky, because what you say may not always be interpreted the way you mean it.

Said girl is friends with the couple we were staying with for a few days. We were in the only Chicago bar in Hermosa beach watching the Bears lose and talking about said girl's love life. She was SO excited because she just started dating a new guy and they were sending flirty text messages back and forth.

She then let it slip that she sent him a text message that morning that said, "Ravish me." The way she told us, you could tell that she thought the phrase was both clever and just the right amount of sexy that should be sent over text message.

Dan and I were both a little shocked, and Dan said something along the lines of, "You know that means rape, don't you?"

Uncomfortable silence.

She didn't know.

She thought it meant "Sex me up passionately, but non-violently."

It can mean something like that (see #3), but more often than not, it means something not quite so nice.

Here's the FreeDictionary.com version:
Ravish:

1. To seize and carry away by force.

2. To force (another) to have sexual intercourse; rape.

3. To overwhelm with emotion; enrapture. See Synonyms at enrapture.

Once I showed her the actual definition (Thank God for internet capable phones!), she immediately started in on the damage control. For the record, the guy didn't know what ravish meant, so it was pretty unnecessary.

The rest of the night, after a bunch more drinks and some pizza, she stated, "No wonder guys always want to sleep with me and then don't talk to me again. I've texted that to the last 9 guys I've dated!"

Ouch.

Word to the wise ladies. If you're going to be sexy through text message, make sure you know the meanings of what you're saying, ALL three or more of them.