THIS: “When the prerecorded message came on informing them to “leave a message after the beep” were they so surprised they were rendered speechless?”

First off, that’s funny shit. Second, I will admit there have been a FEW occasions where I’ve gotten all the way to the end of the greeting before hanging up. There are two reasons this may have happened:
1) Some people’s greetings are so funny that I have to listen to them, but then at the end I decide I really have nothing important to say.
2) At the end of their greeting, I suddenly clam up and can’t say anything because I feel awkward leaving voicemail messages.

But don’t mistake that explanation for me trying to defend the other assholes. Just some insight into what a few of us dicks might be thinking when it happens.

@Sally – I’m one of those people that return calls rather than get the voicemail. But that’s only because it’s such a pain in the ass to retrieve my messages that I’d rather just phone people back and because half of the time the messages are just people hanging up (in case you didn’t just read my rant).

You’re right, you need to leave some people messages, and some people you know will phone you back when they see they missed your call. Perhaps we should all talk to each other more about our message preference so we can live in a better world with less bitter people.

@Czech_Boy – If you’ve done it to me you’ll never know until it’s too late.

People dont leave many voice messages these days though. It’s all text messages now.

I’m sorry if I’ve ever done it to you

Actually, I DO… but then I get irked when the person calling me back has not listened to my message! If you have voicemail, listen to your messages! So there are certain people I call that I do not leave a message for (my sister). Because they will just call me back two minutes later anyway. And those same people (my sister) leave the LONGEST messages on MY voicemail! How unfair is that?

So I often don’t bother to listen to my voicemail. My phone will tell me who called. I can call them back. If you have one of those important kinds of lives where important people will be calling you about business opportunities, then I suppose you need voicemail. Or just record yourself saying you never check your voicemail and to please email or text you. Know what I’m saying?

p.s. “sister” refers to my actual sister here, not my little sister.. just wanted to clarify.

“yeah Jim, great work on creating this cellular network”

“thanks Dan, the best part is not that the voicemail function only holds five messages, but that even if people didn’t want to leave a message – it still records the call hanging up!”

“you sir, are the greatest genius any of us will ever know”

“I know!”

* jumping high five*

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