Autotext

I have a love-hate relationship with the autotext feature that scrolls above any email or message I peck out on my cell phone. Half the time it displays words that are so improbable that I wonder what the programmers were thinking. The other half, it predicts my words with frightening accuracy. But it also has a tendency to draw (imho) too strongly on popular culture. ‘Johansson’ isn’t the only word likely to follow ‘Scarlett,’ especially if you love to read. I guess the worst part is when I start to enter a word that I’m sure the program will autocomplete for me. Letter by letter, I glance up to see if the goofy device has figured out where I’m going with all this. I finally finish the entire word (like it’s some daunting task, right?) and I’m disappointed that it doesn’t understand me better by now.

What’s the funniest or most embarrassing autocomplete experience your machine has put you through? Add a comment below.