really been renamed to anything warmer and lively. The cellular
phone, has 'celly' or my mobile, or just my phone, but the answering
machine doesn't have anything warm and fuzzy like that. Some simply
call it 'the machine', which brings up ideas of a cold heartless
device, unlike the original target recipient of the call. All of
which leads me to believe that people hate the answering machine.
Alas, the answering machine is dying, along with it's partner the land
line.
But now, the answering machine's twenty first century evolution, the
voice mail, has people annoyed. People this day and age are not
accustomed to not being able to reach someone twenty four hours of the
day. When they hear the machine go off, they wonder deeply about how
that person could be away from their phone. Many of my friends think
that they could not survive without this era of instant communication.
I, myself, has the reputation of not picking up my cell phone, but to
lighten the mood I set my voice mail to Spanish. This is an
unexpected surprise to new callers of my phone and leaves them
listening to the whole message. What happens on the end of the
message is a hang up. Then they usually try again a minute later,
with usually the same result.
Why the inpatients people? Leave a message, not a text message saying,
'Aye, call me back'. Leave me a real message containing some
information about the reason you were calling. That bothers me,
people either do not leave messages, or leave a message pretty much
saying, they called. I already knew you called, it says that I have
one missed call, and that one missed call is from you. Do people
think that others don't check their voice mail or something? If I
have voice mail I check it. The tape or infinite symbol in the corner
of my cell phone screen annoys the hell out of me. I that would be the
first thing I check no matter how useless the information is.
The cellular phone
Instant communication
Instant rejection
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