I'm one of those annoying people who refuses to leave messages on answer phones.
I always hang up as soon as I get the robotic woman telling me to leave a message.
Every time I actually get a message myself (which isn't that often, I grant you), I hold down the 1 key to dial the answer phone, raise the phone to my ear, and instantly hang up as soon as the voice says "welcome to Orange answer phone".
Every. Fucking. Time.
Then I redial, and it's a 50/50 chance I do it again.
Moron.
(Paolo Nutini's Bikini Better than Frederick Fleet's optometrist, Thu 28 Mar 2013, 1:10, 1 reply)

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I also hate answerphones. one time I rang a girl to arrange a date, went straight to voicemail, and she had a really weird message - it was in fact 'the claw is my master' , a sound clip from Toy story.

So I rang back to listen to the answerphone message again to work out what it was

That time she's finished the call she was on, and answered. Pro Tip - if you get through to the girl you wanted to talk to, DO NOT tell her you were just calling to listen to her voicemail message again.

Or subsequently stumble to find anything to talk about.
(Carpe Cyprinidae, Thu 28 Mar 2013, 1:22, closed)