My new outgoing answering machine message

[av8rmike]

"Hi, you've reached Mike at [my number]. I'm not in, so leave a message.

If you're looking for someone named Jessie Williams, there is no such person at this number. Thank you."

BEEEEP.

If I get one more message for this person asking about insurance or medical procedures or whatever, I swear I'm going to scream.

Comments

[geobabe1.livejournal.com]

I have always had at least my first name in my answering machine messages, and there is not one single knothead out there who actually listens to anybody's message, or maybe they think that you just forgot to put that other person's name in the message. When I was at Smith, I used to get a lot of calls for the girl who'd been in that room the year before. I finally changed my outgoing message to say, "Hi, this is Lise. Wendy B is no longer at this number, I do not know where she is, please do not leave a message for her because she will not get it. If you'd like to leave a message for me, on the other hand, please do so at the beep."

[av8rmike.livejournal.com]

What bugged me is how my outgoing message had my name on it before. I guess they thought someone was living with me that I just wasn't mentioning in the message, like I was covering for their insurance fraud or something.

[wild-blue.livejournal.com]

Way back when we first moved to base housing in Michigan, we got calls for Tony. Tony had, apparently, not only skipped out on quite a few debts, but had also neglected to tell several family members where he had gone. To add to this, the only phone we had at the time was upstairs, and I was heavily pregnant. It was quite a joy to haul my behemoth self up the stairs only to say "No, there is no Tony here!"

You could have some fun, and consent to some medical procedures or buy some insurance on Jessie's behalf.