OK first, lemme show you what a REAL PHONE looks like:
(from my kitchen wall.)
Notice the unnecessary, unwanted features which
aren't there:
- No lights
- No recording system
- No digital display
- No text display
- No stupid colors
- No games
- No memory database
- No 9,642 buttons and features
- Metal bells that take real amounts electricity to ring
When the previous phone it replaced died, I had a heckuva time finding a
real phone.Everything else looked like a cell phone or a calculator.
Ended up finding this one at Pottery Barn.
Only thing I'd like better is if it had a
real, rotary dial.
OKAY: so on my answering machine I got the best message in over 20 years:
"Hi. It's Donna. Mike' mom. Could you have him give me a call?" <click>
(I don't recite my name in my greeting message.)
The best one before that:
(Frat-rat, scum-boy accent) "Hey, Jenny. Just letting you know I can't pick you up at the train station tonight, so like, see ya." <click>
Stoopid question for people like the above: Since caller ID
costs extra, why does everybody just assume (a) they got the right number, and (b) everyone else has caller ID?
For me - if you don't leave a call-back number, I don't call back.
Otherwise, I would have been more than happy to let "Donna" know that her message didn't make it to "Mike."