Levels of Communication

Have you ever before wondered where texts and messages go if they have no definite destination? Do they just float around in cyberspace for months until the device for which they are intended is once again at their disposal?

I heard someone mention something to this effect not too long ago, though the exact meaning had not quite become evident until today. I hadn't been aware of how long my phone had been dead, just that for a few days I hadn't needed it. But today I charged it and returned it to the land of the living, receiving five subsequent texts that buzzed in within a matter of seconds. Then I thought, where were those texts while my phone was six feet under? Because they most certainly weren't in my phone. i concluded that there must be a bank of undelivered texts somewhere in a vault deep inside the government think tank, and that they're all just floating around getting to know each other until they're called once again into duty.

If this is so (which I must first assure skeptics that it most certainly is), how do these texts become aware that they're once again needed? Do they each have little red lights that flash when their respective phones are revived?

I am forced to conclude that this is so. And as a result, I expect to receive a multitude of texts come July, flooding into my inbox complete with little red lights and visa stamps.