4 Zodiacs Who Would Rather Set Their Phone On Fire Than Answer Texts
Most people keep their phone within arm’s reach and treat every ping like a tiny reward. Then there are the ones who feel each buzz like a mosquito trapped under their shirt. They do not want to know who is texting. They do not want to see the preview. They definitely do not want to open the app and watch the little blue dots appear.
These people silence notifications the way other people lock their doors at night. The phone can ring itself hoarse for all they care. Being reachable is not a feature; it is a bug they never agreed to install.
These four zodiacs are one buzz away from turning their phone into a tiny campfire.
Gemini
Gemini, you would rather chew glass than open a message and add another tab to the chaos already screaming inside your skull. You see the banner, feel the weight of the unsent reply land on your chest, and immediately pivot to literally any other activity on earth. The text sits there like an unpaid bill you swear you will handle later, but later never comes because your attention span just filed for divorce. You are not busy. You are simply allergic to the sensation of owing someone a response. A phone on fire would be the first honest thing that ever happened to your notifications.
Virgo
You feel the vibration and your entire nervous system files a complaint, Virgo. The idea of opening the message, reading it, processing it, and then producing an answer that will not haunt you later is so exhausting you would rather schedule dental surgery. You silence the phone, flip it face-down, and pretend the outside world has been temporarily deleted. Crafting the perfect reply is too much pressure and sending an imperfect one is emotional terrorism. Better to let the unread count climb into the triple digits than risk a single misplaced word. Fire would be faster, cleaner, and honestly less stressful than pressing send.
Sagittarius
The moment a text arrives, Sagittarius, your soul books the next flight to anywhere else. You register the buzz the same way a wild horse registers a saddle. Immediate, full-body refusal. You shove the phone into the deepest pocket, under the couch, inside a cereal box if that is what it takes to restore the illusion of freedom. Plans, questions, check-ins, all of it feels like someone trying to staple you to the present moment and you are already halfway out the window. You will answer when you feel like it, which is somewhere between never and the next ice caps melting again. A flaming phone would simply confirm what you already know: commitments and cellular data cannot coexist.
Scorpio
You hear the notification and decide in a nanosecond that whatever it is can wait until the sun burns out, Scorpio. Opening the message means inviting another person into your force field and today is not a single soul has earned clearance. You let it sit unread like a loaded gun you refuse to pick up. If the sender is lucky you might glance at the preview and grant them a single emoji in three weeks. If they are unlucky the chat fossilizes forever. People call it ghosting. You call it curation. A phone bursting into flames would just be the universe finally respecting your boundaries.