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These Three Questions Will Tell You How Long To Wait Before Responding To The Person Who Just Texted You

What are you waiting for?! Don’t be rude, literally stop reading this and go respond!

TEXT BACK RIGHT NOW

Don’t make that person wait too much longer, get that text out in a cool 15.

15 minutes.

Half an hour is a solid chunk of time to make ‘em wait, go ahead and respond after 30.

30 minutes.

An hour is a long time to make a person wait, but in this case it’s how long you need to take!

One hour.

Your response must be important, so take time to think what you’re going to say through, though you might be making the person waiting sweat.

Three hours.

Even if you’re seeing this fresh in the morning, make that person wait until whenever you wake up tomorrow for a reply! If they’re inviting you somewhere you don’t want to go, hopefully you’ll have dodged the bullet by then.

Tomorrow morning.

Putting off responding to someone for this long might seem rude, but perhaps there’s a point you need to get across that only a ticking clock can make.

In a few days.

While it’s socially unacceptable to take this long to respond to friends, family, and really anyone you want to be a part of your life, some occasions call for a good old quarter of a calendar page delay.

Next week.

That’s right! Whatever they did, they dun goofed, because they shall never, ever hear from you again.

Never.

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These Three Questions Will Tell You How Long To Wait Before Responding To The Person Who Just Texted You

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