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For the sake of sanity, just leave a voicemail!



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Just do us all a favor

I may be alone in this, but I highly doubt it.  My phone number is certainly not private as I have it listed in various public places; because of this, I get a fair amount of phone calls from numbers that I do not recognize. Now, everyone that knows me, knows that I do not answer phone calls from numbers I either do not recognize or I cannot find the source on Google. Rather than listen to telemarketers or possibly scammers, I choose to just ignore the call. The system works for me.

With that in mind, I do often gets call from people that I do actually know and wouldn't mind speaking to, but there is a problem: I do not know it is them. If only there was some kind of system where if I do not answer the call, the individual calling could leave me a message to identify themselves and ask for me to call back.

Oh wait, we have something like that; it is called voicemail.
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No number? No answer


On any given day, I receive at least two to three calls from local numbers that I do not recognize; I also miss the occasional call from someone I do recognize. Oddly enough, not one single caller ever leaves a voicemail. I cannot count the number of times I have gone in to my voicemail to check the settings and make sure it is not full, and every time, I find it is working perfectly. So, am I weird in being annoyed that people do not leave messages?

Could I have answered your call? Possibly, but I didn't. However, you clearly called me so you must have wanted to speak to me for some reason. Why would you not leave me information that I can use to return your call? Chances are that I am going to forget I have a missed call shortly after swiping away the notification? Guess what notifications you cannot just swipe away? Voicemails.

Maybe I am alone in my aggravation that people repeatedly call me without leaving a message. However, I am surely not the only person who does not answer calls from numbers that are unrecognizable to me, and that habit of mine is not going to change. When I call any number, I typically always leave a message because chances are, you are not going to return a call to a random person that you do not even know the name of, right?

So please, for the sake of everyone's sanity, just leave a damn message. It takes 5 seconds to leave a name and number; if not, I can 100% guarantee that you will not be getting a return call.

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