There's always the long, long silence, and the bewildered question about the voice mail, to which the increasingly weary answer is "I am the voice mail." You'd think that leaving a message with an actual human would be a novelty, but the caller is almost invariably bewildered and mournful at the prospect.
Here's the thing about that. If I'm leaving a message with a person, I just want to give them my name and number, not my whole life story. Voicemail will get the life story. Or at least, a detailed description of why I'm calling. So while it is nice to speak to a human, and I understand that people's reaction is annoying, I tend to give the person I'm calling more information via voicemail.
Things I don't understand:
- how "The Parkers" managed to stay on the air long enough to go into syndication
- why it's so hard to get a straight answer from the phone company
- why it's not 6:00 yet so I can go home
I actually was typing it as one word "aboveground". Though I didn't in my post. Because I am a bonehead. (eta: Word doesn't like the hyphen. And congrats on making it to the next round, Dana! As well as sympathy on the taking forever part)
Well, Word is a poopyhead, because if you don't have a hyphen, the assumption is that "above" modifies "vault" and not "ground". Although I guess technically, "above" is an adverb, not an adjective...but it looks better.
Things I don't understand:
- Why the phone only rings as soon as I get online, making it appear that I am always online. Okay, maybe I am always online.
- What is wrong with my thrice damnable budget numbers that mean that sheet A does not match up with sheet B despite having been entered directly from the data in sheet B.
- Why you are getting snow and I am not.
Things I don't understand:
- Paris Hilton (subtracting the Richest Trainwreck on Earth factor)
- People who think it's OK to pick on other people's diets
- Non-dairy creamers
I don't understand why teleportation has not been invented yet.
So while it is nice to speak to a human, and I understand that people's reaction is annoying, I tend to give the person I'm calling more information via voicemail.
I totally agree. Perhaps it means I leave bad voicemails, but they are very different from any message that goes through a third party.
I don't understand why teleportation has not been invented yet.
I confess that I go into Dr. McCoy mode when that idea crosses my mind. If you disassemble me to the subatomic level, I'm dead.
Oh, and I don't understand why people so often on the phone think I am voicemail. Not that I'm going to transfer them to voicemail, but that I myself am a recorded voice.
Well, the replicators are well on their way, dunno why not for teleporters.
If you disassemble me to the subatomic level, I'm dead.
Only for a little while. But heh, yes, I understand the trepidation.
