hahaha your 70yr old Grandad Mummyfreckle! DP's mum is a bit like that when texting too - but she makes up all kinds of abbreviations to make shorter texts - sometimes they are a real challenge to make out.
I also can't stand seeing my teenage cousins write like this on facebook - I just assume they are all too dumb to know how to write properly! I've never been so stunned as when one cousin said she had passed NCEA English (even said passed, not past

(but she didn't capitalise the E!) Everything else she has ever written has every spelling and grammatical error possible!
I'm so pleased that OB people don't write like this!