Thanks to the unpredictability of the network, it can take anything from two seconds to a week for texts to reach their intended destination.
Though if it's really important, I usually ring them up and tell them instead.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 17 May 2009, 23:46, archived)

it is true
legal contracts should add a disclaimer 'a text sent is not necccesarrily a text recieved'
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Sun 17 May 2009, 23:48, archived)

They could, but as I don't have a contract, it would be quite irrelevant.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 17 May 2009, 23:49, archived)