| A: | Why didn’t you text me last night? |
| B: | What? I sent you three or four messages! |
| A: | I didn’t get any of them. I was waiting for you to text me the address of where the party was and I never got your message. |
| B: | Why didn’t you just call? I hate sending SMS messages. |
| A: | Well, because I didn’t have any credit on my phone. I used it all up this month. |
| B: | I thought you had an unlimited SMS plan? |
| A: | I do, but if I don’t have any credit in my phone, it won’t let me call or send messages. |
| B: | No wonder you didn’t get my texts! |
| text | act of sending a text message via a mobile phone | |
| SMS | abbreviation for Short Message Service | |
| credit | amount of money that you have available to make ca | |
| use it up | to completely finish or extinguish something | |
| unlimited | without limits or restrictions | |
| no wonder | not surprisingly |
| voicemail | A service that allows you to leave a recorded message | |
| calling card | A prepaid card that allows you to make international phone calls | |
| pay as you go | Credit purchased in advance in order to make phone calls on a mobile phone | |
| coverage | The area that the mobile phone operator covers or allows for making phone calls | |
| drop a call | To lose connection of a call |