Why can people not leave a decent voice mail message? My outgoing message is pretty straightforward, in which I first apologize for not being able to take the call, then follow that up with a suggestion that, if the caller leaves me a detailed message, I will get back to them as soon as possible.
But without fail, I frequently get the message:“Hey dude, it’s me. Call me back when you get this.”
Maddening.
Frankly, I don’t like talking on the phone too much. I just don’t. I prefer to play Angry Birds on my phone. And yes, I use my voice mail to screen my phone calls.
So “hey buddy, just wondering what you were doing, hit me back, yo!” isn’t going to get you a return call from me.
I would much prefer:
“Hey dude, it’s me. I found that alpaca fur you were looking for. I was thinking we could talk about it over mimosas while watching bugs get zapped tomorrow night.”
Now there is a voice mail message I will return with some alacrity.
Good point. Might as well just get a text message from them saying the same thing. From work if they call me when I’m off from work. I just don’t answer screw them I put enough hrs for them anyway.
I have told friends and family that failure to leave a detailed voice message (or even worse, not leaving any message at all) will lead me to believe that their call was of no importance, and I will therefore not be calling them back. I do not look at my missed call list.
I always enjoy getting cryptic texts wherein I cannot identify the sender. First of all, I don’t have a smartphone so I don’t like to text too much, but some people insist. I got one the other day, “I know you don’t like to text.” It was several pages long. I have no idea who it was from. I did not reply.
Maybe they’ll get the point.
That was from me. My thumbs hurt after typing that out. Thanks for ignoring it.
Sign it next time and I’ll answer it. The thing is, you get these texts and you have no idea who sent them. Of course, it could be from someone who typed in the wrong phone number and that might get interesting.
As in, I remember back in the 1980′s when the CIA faxed six pages of highly confidential documents to a nearby pizza delivery service. Everyone understood why the pizza delivery service was in their fax speed-dial, but still…