Ken from Chicago wrote:

> "Howard Brazee" <howard@brazee.net> wrote in message
> news:8upgm3hp8rvm2pcngcf8eg5hnf0u8d3bqm@4ax.com...
>
>>On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:24:00 -0500, Jack Tingle <wjtingle@hotmail.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>Worse with voicemail is people blather on and on instead of getting to
>>>>the
>>>>point and RUSH thru the most important pieces of information: their name
>>>>and
>>>>phone number. Many times at work I've had to replay a voicemail several
>>>>times to attempt to decipher what someone's phone number is.
>>>
>>>My voicemail message says "Send an e-mail to [email address] for a
>>>faster response." I never pick up my voice mail. About every three
>>>weeks, I clear out the messages.
>>
>>When I have to leave voice-mail, I state my name 3 times, spell it
>>twice, and give my phone number twice. One of those is at the start
>>(where they can replay easily). Because sometimes we just can't
>>understand what is said.
>
>
> I consciously slow down when saying my name and phone number on voicemail,
> and leave the phone number a second time at the very end to allow the person
> to get something to write down the phone number with or so they can play the
> message again, write down the number the first time and then double-check it
> when I say the number at the end of the recording.
>
> -- Ken from Chicago
>
>

Ugh. I had a call like that on Monday. I'd been sending this lady
letters for weeks trying to get hold of her, because I didn't have a
phone number. She called and left me a voicemail, carefully spelling
her name and her daughter's name and repeating them twice each, and then
a burst of static on her phone line covered up the last digit of her
phone number. *sigh*

peachy ashie passion <exquisitepeach@hotmail.com> writes:

> Ugh. I had a call like that on Monday. I'd been sending this
> lady letters for weeks trying to get hold of her, because I didn't
> have a phone number. She called and left me a voicemail, carefully
> spelling her name and her daughter's name and repeating them twice
> each, and then a burst of static on her phone line covered up the last
> digit of her phone number. *sigh*

Where's the problem? That's 10 calls at most. :-)

Peter Bruells wrote:

> peachy ashie passion <exquisitepeach@hotmail.com> writes:
>
>
>> Ugh. I had a call like that on Monday. I'd been sending this
>>lady letters for weeks trying to get hold of her, because I didn't
>>have a phone number. She called and left me a voicemail, carefully
>>spelling her name and her daughter's name and repeating them twice
>>each, and then a burst of static on her phone line covered up the last
>>digit of her phone number. *sigh*
>
>
> Where's the problem? That's 10 calls at most. :-)


None of them worked. I mean, I left messages at the 4 that I could.
Four more had full mailboxes or no voicemail, and two were not working
numbers.

I waited a day, but got no callbacks from the voicemails I'd left, so
I still had 8 options. 7 if I discounted the one that had a male voice,
though that may not be a warranted assumption.