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Hi! You've reached the home of Angus and Helen. We're not available, as we're jet-lagged, exhausted, fucked off, and substantially lighter in the credit department right now. But if you leave your name and number at the tone, once we've slept for 12 consecutive hours, done three loads of laundry, and figured out what to do with the twenty goddamn bottles of hot sauce Angus bought and the virtual mountain of fleecy Target socks that I call a new lover, we'll call you back. Actually, I lie. We'll most likely do what we usually do and just delete your voice mail without listening and figure if it's really really important, you'll find another way to reach us. We recommend carrier pigeon. So thanks for calling! Buh-bye!.....Uh....OK....So when does it stop recording? No, I already did push that button. See? You pushed it and nothing happened. God, I hate this fucking mach-

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Posted by: Everydaystranger at 01:54 PM | Comments (11) | Add Comment
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1 Glad to see you back, and I hope you enjoyed the trip!

Posted by: amber at November 07, 2006 02:40 PM (5PLeA)

2 hehe. that makes me want to change my own message. "Hi, you've reached Geeky. Leave a message, but I probably won't call you back."

Posted by: geeky at November 07, 2006 03:04 PM (ziVl9)

3 when I had an answering machine, my message was, "leave a message, don't leave a message, whatever. I may or may not call you back." Welcome home.

Posted by: wRitErsbLock at November 07, 2006 03:10 PM (pR/bI)

4 This made me laugh out loud. Welcome home.

Posted by: april at November 07, 2006 04:28 PM (Tj2rA)

5 My cell message is, "If you know me, then you know exactly how often I check my messages." I never check them. And yet, my mother insists on leaving them. Glad you guys had safe travels.

Posted by: amy t. at November 07, 2006 05:33 PM (3dOTd)

6 Not a big fan of checking messages or returning calls either. I do, however, need a phone and, unfortunately, do have voice mail. On the other hand, if someone thinks enough of me to leave a message, I'm grateful. I have to keep myself right-sized...I'm not that important or busy to disregard their calls or messages... and hopefully I'll never think I am.

Posted by: nojo at November 07, 2006 07:44 PM (XdFfb)

7 Welcome home! I/m glad shopping was good to you. So did you get the cute stripey mary jane socks? I love those......

Posted by: caltechgirl at November 07, 2006 08:18 PM (/vgMZ)

8 Hope you enjoyed our fair country!

Posted by: kenju at November 07, 2006 11:25 PM (L8e9z)

9 I can relate to that. Glad you made it safely.

Posted by: Dana at November 08, 2006 03:08 AM (MxZ0R)

10 That was pretty funny.

Posted by: Solomon at November 08, 2006 02:46 PM (k1sTy)

11 Glad you're home... safe, if not a bit cranky...

Posted by: sue at November 08, 2006 04:45 PM (WbfZD)

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