Answering machine recordings are odd social experiments in themselves.
First of all, what’s funny is I still refer to an “answering machine” even though I haven’t seen one in years. So when I say answering machine, I clearly mean voicemail.
Anyway, I’ve always found it interesting to listen to different people’s recordings they have on their voicemail. I think it can tell you a lot about a person. Sometimes they’re funny. Other times, the person sounds absolutely miserable. You can always tell when one of your friends is looking for a job, because their recording is all of a sudden very professional and they enunciate unusually well.
My favorite phrase that everyone seems to love to use on their recording is, “I’m sorry, but I can’t get to the phone right now…” I love it because it’s such a lie. How can you physically not be able to get to the phone? That sounds ridiculous. Or at least, I thought so until today.
My roommates and I went to Costco tonight to do a little shopping (obviously there’s no such thing as a “little” shopping when you go to Costco, but you know what I mean). On our way out, we saw that all of the carts were stacked in front of the pay phones. I thought it was sad because what if someone really needed to use the pay phone? How would they get to them? Luckily, Robbie was there to figure it out.
First of all, what’s funny is I still refer to an “answering machine” even though I haven’t seen one in years. So when I say answering machine, I clearly mean voicemail.
Anyway, I’ve always found it interesting to listen to different people’s recordings they have on their voicemail. I think it can tell you a lot about a person. Sometimes they’re funny. Other times, the person sounds absolutely miserable. You can always tell when one of your friends is looking for a job, because their recording is all of a sudden very professional and they enunciate unusually well.
My favorite phrase that everyone seems to love to use on their recording is, “I’m sorry, but I can’t get to the phone right now…” I love it because it’s such a lie. How can you physically not be able to get to the phone? That sounds ridiculous. Or at least, I thought so until today.
My roommates and I went to Costco tonight to do a little shopping (obviously there’s no such thing as a “little” shopping when you go to Costco, but you know what I mean). On our way out, we saw that all of the carts were stacked in front of the pay phones. I thought it was sad because what if someone really needed to use the pay phone? How would they get to them? Luckily, Robbie was there to figure it out.
So here he is, crawling over shopping carts to try and answer the phone. But by the time he got there, they had hung up. While he was by the phone he did find an old man’s cane though. But no old man.
We tried looking for him among all the carts, but I’m afraid we may have been too late.
3 comments:
Robbie would!
Jake....
I just found your blog and was so happy to see that I am one of your tabs. How are you? DC is still great I am sure! When will you be back in Utah, we should go chalking or something! :)
Post something new! Post something new! Seriously..get on it, I know you have ABSOLUTELY nothing else to do! By the way, we sure miss you!
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