Public service message

[ritaxis]

If you hang up after two rings and don't leave a message you will never, ever, ever have a chance to talk to me because I can't get to my phone before two rings and I can't call you back if you don't leave a message.

I'm looking at you, almost everybody who calls my number.

Comments

I'd call you to talk about what you are writing

[dragonet2.livejournal.com]

just to be inspired and get off duff. But I don't have the number.

For the record, I always leave a message when I call someone who does not pick up their phone, I wait, let it ring and roll over to the machine. Because I hate it when people do the same to me. Then again my mother is the champ of calling and then hanging up. She was embarrassed when she realized the new phones recorded her number and let us know she at least called. She leaves a message now, even if it is short.

Re: I'd call you to talk about what you are writing

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Our answering machine automatically records the number, which us useful if it's someone I know because I will call them back. Having said that, the only people who call me on the landline are family and they know to give me time to hurtle downstairs to answer.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

You must be referring to one of those strange old-fashioned "land-line" telephones (because otherwise, your phone records the missed call and the number it came from). I suspect a lot of people assume that either caller ID on a landline, or the cell phone, will record the missed call, and therefore a lack of message means "nothing urgent but was looking to chat".