Well I tell you. I still hate cell phones. I know it's 2007 and everyone luhh-huhh-huhvz their cell phone. But no one I want to talk to ever calls me. You will say, "Ya, that's because you never have your cell phone turned on!" But if I do turn it on, people call for Eddy or Margaret or just to talk about some loan offer, etc. So I have to turn it off, and then my loved ones cannot call me, but I still get calls from everyone else. I had my phone off for 2 days and missed 14 calls and got 10 voice mails, not one of them for me. BTW, my VM greeting does not say, "Yes! I am the one you are calling, go ahead please". And my work cell - obviously only people I do not wish to talk to ever call that number. I can't wait until we can all communicate telepathically like that great but tragic race on Altair IV - when I will think, "How do I hang up telepathically?""All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand." - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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man that photo made me laugh--dig that old cordless! and excellent vonnegut quote.
there are a couple solutions to your problem. you could download a ringtone (i recommend a snappy fight song--does kent have one?) and apply it to your faves, so you know when it's them, and only answer it then.
and/or, you can answer all those calls, for a little while, and explain to the idiots who don't seem to understand from your voice mail that margaret doesn't have that number anymore.
this worked pretty well for the random (and frequent) calls i got, except for the person who asked me in response, "well, what IS her new number?"
It's always a joy to share your phone number with the genius who last had it.
Reminds me of the time that Schutze and I got an 800 number for one of our little business schemes and it turned out to be one digit away from the Ernest Angely (ps, there is a rich vein of YouTube material relating to ol' rockin' Ern) prayer hotline. Needless to say, Schutze was not pleased, especially as the 800 number was directed at his home phone...
Thanks for the suggestions Julie. Here's an idea I had that might even scare off the spam voice messages: I could change my "leave a message" message to the classic, "MoopMeepBeeep! I'm sorry, the number you have reached is not a working number. Please hang up and try the number again." I have an old .wav file of that somewhere. It might work. It just might.
Oh man Tom that is a funny story! I don't think I'd heard that before. Always with the business schemes, that one. And of course after your comment I had to spend the next hour watching Ernest Angely clips on Youtube. My vote goes to the actual 1981 footage. It's short - watch it if you haven't yet.
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