“Define “regular”. If you have a thingy with an attached cord going into the wall – you can’t text it at all. I mean you can text but I won’t get it.”
I don’t think that is true. I remember as a teenager that we could text home phone numbers and when the recipient picked up the phone, they were hear a computer voice reading the text. It was expensive but the option did exist. I’m not sure if it still exists but I’m sure there’s a way.