"At the tone, please record your message. When you are finished, hang up....."

[matcom]

no fucking shit Sherlock.

What do you THINK i'm going to do when i'm finished talking?

gawd voice mail is the root of all evil :eyes:

[Katina]

1. well, there may be other options

like leaving a callback number or marking your voice message as a high priority so that it jumps to the "front of the line" when the person retrieves their messages. :)

[qnr]

23. And some of the hateful stuff wants you to "press the pound key"

voice mail sucks!

[realisticphish]

2. that always fucking pisses me off

"Press 1 to leave a callback number." You piece of shit, that's what the fucking message is for.

:grr:

It makes my day whenever I come across a voice mail that just has the person's message, and that's it (Except when that person takes five minutes to tell you what to do, like you've never used voice mail before). Answering machines have been around for 20 years or so. WE GET IT. It's like posting instructions on how to wipe your ass on the wall of every restroom.

[In_The_Wind]

3. Shows a total lack of imagination.

Voice mail boxes should be intertaining ... since no one's home

[Tyler Durden]

4. The moment a computer starts telling me to chose numbers...

I want to bring out the .45.

If I ever get rich, whenever I get voicemail, I am going to fire off a gun next to the phone. Whaddaya think of THAT message.

[underpants]

12. BTW-they are on to the hitting 0 at the beginning thing

that used to work like a charm but now they all restart the menu (oh god is that aggrivating) and usually it is #4 or 5 or something but it is hard to guess.

I think Oprah let that little secret (hitting 0) out and all the companies started changing it the next day.

[Tyler Durden]

14. BOY that pissed me off.

Read about that, and truthfully I have only wanted to slap two women in my life: Coulter, and Oprah when she spilled the beans.

[DS1]

5. I'm amazed that you managed to find the Post button

[graywarrior]

6. Press 1 for English. press 2 for Spanish.

What if you're Polish?

[DS1]

7. Then you'd be using a rotary phone

:hide:

[graywarrior]

10. Don't laugh....I know some Polish people in my family who STILL HAVE ROTARY PHONES!!!

I shit you not.

[Tyler Durden]

15. Shit, why not?

I still have one in my house. The others are modern, but TRY getting one of those to work in a power failure.

[graywarrior]

16. You just proved to the entire world that Polish people are not dumb.

[Tyler Durden]

18. Guess they never heard of Mikolaj Kopernik.

Better known as Copernicus.

Or Fredirick Chopin.

Humans can be just dumb in general sometimes, no?

[graywarrior]

20. All the Polish people in my family call eachother up and tell Polish jokes.

[skygazer]

9. The best one is the California Disability office

Which tells you to press 1 for English. Once you've pressed 1 for English, they spend the next several minutes telling you that, "We have a toll-free number for our Spanish-speaking customers. That number is 1-800-DUMFUCK. Again, that number is 1-800-DUMFUCK...." :wtf:

Irritates me every time. Why, after pressing 1 for English, would I want to know about your toll-free number for Spanish-speaking customers? :banghead:

[graywarrior]

13. Or, they give you the same instructions in Spanish that they just gave in English for about 5

fucking minutes.

[johnnie]

8. It's a cell phone scam

It takes them twenty minutes of call time to tell you how to leave a voice mail.

[underpants]

11. Really? Is that why they offer the fax option that NO ONE ever uses?

THAT is what kills me. Like I am really going to fax something to a cell phone.

[skygazer]

17. The paper comes out so small you can't read 'em anyway

It's like a little rolling paper. :rofl:

[underpants]

19. For God's sake

does Al Gore know about this??

Seriously they need to start asking IF we want a receipt-not just for the eco-friendly part of it but THE BILLS AND THEN COINS BALANCING ACT IS ENOUGH CAN'T THEY SEE THAT I HAVE MY WALLET IN MY OTHER HAND?!?!? I DON'T NEED A FREAKIN' RECEIPT FOR A SALAD AND A SLICE OF PIZZA IF I DID DON'T YOU THINK I WOULD ASK FOR AND (looks over at bagger) AND THEY DON'T EACH NEED AN INDIVIDUAL PLASTIC BAG!!!

They just love me at the grocery store. :loveya:

[Left Is Write]

21. ...or press one for more options."

[wildhorses]

22. it marked the beginning of the decline of civilization as we know

it, truly evil:evilfrown: