1 Missed Call

My cell phone is like a part of my body that I never leave home or anywhere without. I mean, what if I missed a call telling me that I won a million bucks or someone telling me I inherited a company that deals in natural acne treatment or maybe even that Bill Gates died and decided to randomly leave his fortune to a stranger who happens to be me ... LOL!

But there are times when I'm too busy with work or other stuff that I do leave my cell phone unattended and end up having missed calls which would offer the option to leave a voice mail. Some numbers I recognize and I would call them back without having to check my voice mail but some numbers I don't know and would have to dial my voice mail to retrieve the message.

Picture this scenario. I dial my voice mailbox. I Follow the instructions to retrieve the voice mail. Nothing but silence. Just a slight sound of breathing or sometimes ambient noise in the background. Not one word. Nada. Zilch.

What am I getting at here? Well, what really stumps me is why do people wait till they hear the customized voice mail greeting that goes something like this,

'Hi, you've reached Nick. I'm not able to answer your call, leave a name and number at the beep and I'll get back to you in a minute or two.'

*Beeeeeeppp*

And then they just keep quiet! What the hell? Why the heck wait until the voice mail greeting ends and then just keep quiet and breathe into the phone? Do they think I can recognize their breathing? Or maybe I'm psychic enough to know who they are? Or maybe they think I get turned on by their breathing?

I mean, if you're not going to leave a message, don't waste my time and money making me dial my voice mail to hear you breathe. And it's not a simplified process to dial my voice mail at that. I have to dial in, key in my password, press 1 and then followed by 7, 5, 9 and zero (not really but you get my drift) just to hear you breathe, listen to dead air or ambient sounds of people talking in the background.

If you're not going to bother leaving a voice mail, then don't wait till my customized message come on. Just hang up and call me again later. Is that so bloody hard to do? Or leave me a text message so I know who to call back. I'm not the kind of person who will dial up a number of some missed call I don't recognize and say,

'Urmmm, did anyone call me, ah?'

God, I hate people like that! I'd rather address the person who called than call back some unknown number. Please la people, if you reach my voice mail and patiently wait till the voice greeting is done, at least leave a message. If you're too shy to speak, just your name will do. I don't bite la!

Speaking of which, P1 has been trying to call both wifey and me the past two days and unfortunately we both didn't have our cell phones with us when they called. Naturally the call reverted to voice mail. Well, I'm glad to say that this P1 person did wait till my greeting was done and even left me a voice mail.

Here's what he said,

'Hi, this is P1 here'.

Then he hung up! I was inclined to call P1 and ask to speak to Mr. P1 ... LOL! Good God, I know you're from P1 but do you know how many people there are working in P1? And I'll bet you none of them is named P1 ... wait a minute ... maybe the P1 building was trying to call me ... hahaha! It takes all kinds ...

And Timothy, if you're reading this, I think you should talk to your P1 customer service (at least I think they were the customer service people) and tell them to at least introduce themselves so I know who to call back :D
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