I nearly become homicidal every time I have to hear an outgoing message that gives me 45 minutes of instructions on how to leave a message.

Seriously, who doesn’t know how to leave a message?

I want to throw my phone across the room when I have to hear not only the regular outgoing message, like: “Hi, this is Doug. I’m not here right now, so please leave a message”, but then the imbecilic system kicks in with, “If you would like to leave a message, please begin speaking after the tone” (of course another 20 mins is going to go by before you hear the tone), it continues … “If you would like to review your message, press 4. If you would like to strangle someone because your life is wasting away listening to idiotic instructions on how to leave a message, please smash your phone with a hammer … and on and on and on and on.

By the time the damn thing is done I forget who I called and why I called them.

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