will never know the incredible burden of coming up with the perfect message for their answering machine - just funny enough not to lose friends, just irritating enough to tell people not to call again if you're screening.
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in reply to @jaidamack's post:
god, i used to dream of the day i got to be an adult so that i could make the funniest answering machine messages
MOSTLY
i did have a cell phone of my own with an answering machine built in that i made semi-funny messages on, but i hadn't hit Peak Clever yet and i knew it was only a matter of time!!
The most grueling was somewhere post-2000, when you needed to painstakingly explain that, if you want me to return your call to have this conversation, and I don't already speak to you regularly enough to know it off the top of your head, then include the (telephone, wise-ass, not any arbitrary) number that you want me to do that with in the message.
Oh mannn. I only very vaguely remember that blip - in the age of touch-tone entry of MIDI ringtones - and I think it was around then that I just gave up entirely and let the machine keep its own messages. I had to figure out how to make my ringtone the Imperial March without spending $2 on an SMS download, after all.