01-09-2005, 03:02 AM
You're leaving someone a message and it was always a simple thing in the past with the audio tape answering machines, you had one shot and you're done. Now everyone has cell phones and voicemail and the telephone company allowed an evil feature that allows you to listen to the message you just left.
Atleast back in the day you left someone a message and you never heard it again, they played it and if you stuttered or sneezed or stumbled over words, hey thats what happens.
Now you find yourself using the feature, not all the time, once in a while though you press that number key and listen though. Then you hear yourself and even though you hear your voice all day long and have heard it all your life, you rarely hear it in that fashion... then you realize.. "holy shit I sound like a moron"
Then you figure, ok let me re-record that message again. You know where you fucked up cause you just listened to the message so you figure, "ok i'll do it once more and get it right". Next thing you know you've fucked up again and again and again, then you try to switch up the message content, before you know it you've recorded the message 36 times now. Now it becomes like the gag reel at the end of films, you're just doing take after take until it's an hour later and the person you called an hour ago is calling to say "hey, what the fuck, you called and didn't leave a message!!!"
The same goes for when you record the outgoing message thats on the voicemail.
Atleast back in the day you left someone a message and you never heard it again, they played it and if you stuttered or sneezed or stumbled over words, hey thats what happens.
Now you find yourself using the feature, not all the time, once in a while though you press that number key and listen though. Then you hear yourself and even though you hear your voice all day long and have heard it all your life, you rarely hear it in that fashion... then you realize.. "holy shit I sound like a moron"
Then you figure, ok let me re-record that message again. You know where you fucked up cause you just listened to the message so you figure, "ok i'll do it once more and get it right". Next thing you know you've fucked up again and again and again, then you try to switch up the message content, before you know it you've recorded the message 36 times now. Now it becomes like the gag reel at the end of films, you're just doing take after take until it's an hour later and the person you called an hour ago is calling to say "hey, what the fuck, you called and didn't leave a message!!!"
The same goes for when you record the outgoing message thats on the voicemail.