The Answering Machine

It is amazing to me the number of friends and family who take personal offence that I have turned Off my answering machine.

Weekly, I have been getting comments about how inconvenient it is for them.. how they can't reach me- if they need me... how could I not turn it on! Mind you these people all have my cell and caller ID does show who calls. I do return calls in my time frame.

Some of these people show on caller ID calling me every 10 minutes for about 5 calls.. seriously. It is like they are in a panic.. or don't understand how I might actually be out.

However, they are not here listening to the phone ring, only to find out it is a company who can not ID themselves to lower my interest rate and they have no idea who is my bank... or the ones who just want to offer me a free trip to West Timbuktu and I only have to pay them a fee of $100 to claim my prize. I just refuse to answer anymore.

Without meaning to be rude.. but a telephone is for my convenience and not for the person trying to reach me. With so many other ways to reach someone these days, a land line telephone is almost a relic... and if not for bundles with internet and TV, that make it too costly to just remove the service... it would be gone. Then they would really panic! lol.

Hey-- I can see some of my grass.. it is cold today... but my grass is there peaking out! Spring must be close now!