Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Hmm, Most People Just Hang Up!

Names in the following correspondence have been replaced to protect the innocent, annoying fools that plague me every single day without rest. Forgive my grammatical slaughterhouse, but I'm typing it as it was said in an attempt to relay the tone of the message. Message 1: "Ummm hello Travis this is Gunther over at Jimmy's Cosmetics and Kayak Depot - listen we're having a problem with our email server not connecting it's giving us errors and I've tried both email servers you gave me but neither of them are working. Give me a call back it's an emergency." Message 2 - three minutes later: "... *shuffle* ... *click*." Message 3 - yet three minutes later: " ... *click*." Message 4 - three minutes later, again: "... *shuffle* ... *shuffle* ... *click*." Now let it be known that we have a fairly long message on our answering machine, long enough that it would not be hard for a person to logically reason out the fact that they are listening to an answering machine message, and decide whether or not they want to leave a message before the beep. Normally I just hang up before I hear the beep, I don't much like listening to answering machine messages, but I guess I can't speak for our friend Gunther here. Oh and then I came into work, got here at 9:00 exactly, and he calls again to tell me he's been "trying to get a hold of me!", to which I said "okay, well, here I am" in a not-so-subtle "dude, you have managed to annoy me and it's only 9:00" voice. As many things that happen to me are, it was one of those "had to be there" things, just be glad that you weren't.

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