This is such a funny post.

We have caller ID but I no longer look at it. It used to be nearly an addiction, checking it all the time. Now if someone doesn't leave me a message then I guess it was not important.

I also forget to check voice mail. Our phone doesn't have that blinking light indicator. So sometimes I go out to get the mail and a call comes in. Or I'm in the shower and I don't hear the phone. In my mind I was home all day and no one called. Whoops, I didn't know they called. Oh well.

I only am reminded of voice mails when I go to call someone and hear the three little beeps.

We have that privacy manager thing on our phone and are on some 'do not call' big lists so we almost never get a marketing call, just the nonprofits sometimes or magaznes we subscribe to who are exempt from those federal laws. I was actually thinking of how nice it is to not get the calls like the chimney sweeps or the vinyl siding people calling anymore.

I kind of have given the voice mail checking job to my husband. He is irked when I don't get the messages. So he checks for them now. LOL.

I am an email person but I know who of my friends and relatives are not consistant email checkers which then annoys me. Oh well.

Actually the worst affront is those I know who have totalphone and a regular answering machine, when they CHOOSE not to answer my call it makes the machine NOT pick up which tells me I am intentionally being ignored which is highly offensive mostly because it doesn't give me the ability to just leave my message to 'be done with' what I have to tell them. I like the voice mail customers better because at least I don't know when I'm intentionally being avoided or ignored.

My SIL made a comment that "All your brothers friends keep calling him on his cell instead of the house phone. I don't get it." Well DUH because they are all tired of YOU ignorning their calls when YOU are on the phone! (And they are not email people either.)

I had to laugh when I read this. I absolutely despise talking on the phone, and I check my voice mail maybe once a month. And I delete them as soon as I figure out what the number is anyway! Thanks for making my laugh!

We only have a land line for our fax machine and have an answering machine on that line. I rarely pick it up (and rarely get messages) because it is never anyone I want to talk to. Is always some farm survey (yeah, we farm) or political something-or-other or wrong number. Oh, or my MIL, but she knows our cell numbers and really knows better than to call on the land line.

I hate when people call me back without listening to my message -- because I hate the PHONE, so I just usually want someone to do whatever I asked on the message, and leave me alone. But I guess that's kind of cranky...

Calling right back after you just miss someone's call? I do that ALL the time. It's usually the Hubs that I miss. It's just funny when he starts talking like I ALREADY listened to his voicemail that he just hung up from less than 2 seconds prior. [he-he] But he should be thankful I even call back, right?

Boy, can I relate!! "3-3-7" is my best friend when it comes to VM.