People are STUPID

Testify!

I am on board with the "People are STUPID" agenda....as for answering machines, I just don't bother, especially when it's Air Supply.

Oh wait...I'm having a Depeche Mode moment....

"People are stupid so why should it be
the music when I call them sounds so awfully."

i let my parrot answer my phone

and your parrot is so awfully cute

my sister's first message on her answering machine (back in the dark ages when they were brand new) was:

I cain't come to the phone ph-one rye-it now.........

I told her she would have to come up with a sentence that did not contain the word "cain't"

so then she said, "Leave a message after the beep"

My sister lives in Ft. Worth........need I say more?

but here's another stupid thing people do.

After a long, long message, they give their phone number so fast, no human, nor computer even could get it the first time, or the second or the fifth........takes 10 times at least and when you finally have the number, thirty minutes has passed. I have to really want that number to do it.

Get even by leaving three minuets of Lawrence Welk on the machine.

set your phone to call forwarding and put in dial-a-prayer

Thank you for calling. Please hold for the next available agent.
(Girl From Ipanema)
Your call is important to us. Please stay on the line. An agent will be with you shortly.
(Cracklin' Rosie)
All of our agents are currently busy. Please stay on the line and your call will be answered in the order received.
(The Candy Man)
Thank you for calling. If this is question regarding commercial accounts, please press 1; personal accounts, press 2; or if you need to speak with an agent, please remain on the line.
(Theme from Laverne & Shirley)
Your call is important to us. Please remain on the line. An agent will be with you shortly.
(The Impossible Dream)
[gunshot]
This is Chris. How may I help you?....Hello?....Hello? Is anybody there? Geez- third one today!....
(dial tone)

Well, after waiting through the message, you could sing "Jesus Loves Me" and then leave your callback number 867-5309, the latter spat out at machine gun pace.

My personal favorites are those people who think that 'their' music played at high levels is a great introductions to what then becomes some hey baby you know what to do or some crazy thing....itd prolly work for some people but, when Im a girl, and its a gril, or Im trying to leave a business message....it just kills me....
HELLO? Did I get a dating service or somethin?
Do you call that music?
Why am I forced to listen to it at the most possibly loudest level?
stupidity at its finest.
What I want to know is what their mother has to say....or perhaps why their mother doesnt say antyhing and thats the whole problem.

I however sat on hold waiting for tech support for 1/2 hour yesterday with the constant interruption of their lovely musac to tell me how important my call was....yeah, sure...keep telling me that as you ignore me....
idiotic
you know...
just tell me..Im having lunch..call in half an hour...Im good with that.

Ooh, and the beeping!! I have a friend who has this machine that plays a little tune of beeps before it ends with one long beep. I HATE THAT MACHINE!