I got home late from editing today, and found my little answering machine blinking happily away with the number 13 in the window. This tells me that there were a whole lotta people calling me today....Wooo! Wooo!!! I am So Mr. Popular.
I hit the playback button, just waiting for the love.......The result?
1 call from Arc of Hennepin County asking if I have anything to donate this month. (this is a great organization..and although I have been donating to them for years and years, it never seems as if the pile gets smaller..sigh)
But I digress.
1 call from a phone company offering me better rates.(How would they know?)
2 calls from home remodellers.
2 call for replacement windows (I don't think of these as home remodellers for some reason.)
1 call from a very happy guy named Marshall that urged me to call him back for information that could change my life. (This was actually a recording, but he was SUPER glad to talk to me.)
4 dead air messages.
1 of those "Operator recordings".."If you'd like to make a call, please hang up and then try again"
And finally, a message that just played bad musak, ( a horrible, even bad for in an elevator, cover version of Clapton's Tears in Heaven...ewww) until the digital chip on my recorder was full and had to shut itself off. (made extra weird by the fact that the caller ID box said the call number was 0-000-000-0000.
Nice to know we have a law in place to keep phone sales calls to a minimum...... huh?
I usually just get ARC and the dead-air messages. You lucky son of a gun, you. Lately, I try to initiate meaningful conversation with the person on the other end, try to get them off their script and just be a human being. they resist. how sad.
Posted by: jeremy w on February 20, 2003 12:37 AMwow.. I keep getting calls that I have won a trip to Branson MO all I have to do is listen to a brief seminar on a time share.
Posted by: bill on February 20, 2003 09:10 AM