Ok, it's 8:32PM on Wednesday night. I'm trying to study for my compilers exam that I have tomorrow when the phone rings. Immediately, I delete the number from the caller ID, because the phone is never for me. It rings once. It rings twice. I say, "Are you going to get that?" < assholes name removed > says "No." So I hit the speakerphone button on my phone twice quickly, thinking that it will hang up, which it normally does. This time is different, and it rings a third and fourth time. I ask why he doesn't pick up and he tells me, "I'll let them leave a message so I know what they want and can call them back." Then, being as bold as I am, I ask, "Why not pick up, and say 'Oh, lemme call you back later.'? It defeats the point of calling." He's like, "That's the point of an answering machine."

Now, I'm not one to argue (yeah, right; just too annoyed to bother right now), but I could have said, "No, the reason answering machines were invented was to allow a person to receive messages from people that called when they ARE NOT HOME!!! Not when they are sitting right next to the phone and are like, Oh, I'll see what they want from the message and then call them back"...

YOU ASSHOLE!


I mean, seriously, how dumb do you have to be to have, not only voice mail on a cell phone, but voicemail on your dorm room phone that you have to use them BOTH!!! I don't think I, personally, have gotten more than 20 calls to my room, but when I get them, I know who they are, what they want, and I talk to them right then and there, no waiting for them to leave a message. The whole process of
  1. picking up the phone
  2. asking the person what's up?
  3. telling them I'll call them back in a little while
takes half the time it does to
  1. wait for the phone to stop ringing
  2. wait God only knows how long for the idiot on the other side to leave a
    retarded message telling you that they smell the smelly smell of something that smells smelly
  3. then have to dial into the voicemail system enter your box number
  4. then your passcode
  5. then press 1 to listen to the message
  6. then 76 to delete it
  7. then hang up

"'But I thought they had Vitamin C in 'em and stuff.' You fucking dolt." - Denis Leary in reference to making the health hazard warning on cigarette packs *bigger*.

You fucking dolt!


is damn right...


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