December 21st, 2007 12:19
So the other day I left the most ridiculous message I’ve ever left in my life.
I’d been hoping that I could take a few sax lessons, learn a bit about proper technique, improv, etc., and so I asked the guy who runs the swing band (since he is apparantly a very good tenor sax player) if he could recommend me anyone. He offered to give me a few lessons and so he gave me his phone number. When I called him a few days later, his machine picked up, and in his message he said “please don’t forget to press hash after the message!”. Now I know you *can* press hash after leaving a message, but do you *have* to to make the message go through? Anyway, I left a message: forgot to press hash though.
So I waited close to a week, didn’t hear back from him, so decided to call again. He didn’t pick up again so I left another message, but right as I was saying my phone number I realized that it was not, in fact, my phone number that I was saying. Flustered, I paused and started saying my phone number again, realized I was still saying the wrong number, realized that I couldn’t in fact remember what my phone number was! I gave it about 3 more shots before giving up (by this point I had started laughing and couldn’t stop), so I gasped out “I can’t remember my phone number… I’ll call you back when I remember it” or something equally ridiculous. And forgot to press hash again.
So, after hanging up, of course I remembered my phone number, so I called right back and said something to the effect of (keep in mind I’m still laughing), “Hello, it’s Elise again, I have now remembered my phone number, it’s XXXXXXXXXX, and I’m going to press hash this time”, pressed hash, heard the mechanical voice say “message saved!” and hung up.
And I still haven’t heard back from him. So this leaves me wondering: did he not get the first two messages because you in fact do have to press hash to make a message be saved? Why else would he specifically mention pressing hash in his message? And if that is true, that means he only got the last message, in which I did not properly identify who I was, why I was calling, or why he should call me back!
So either he 1) has no idea who I am so doesn’t call back 2) thinks I’m a lunatic and so doesn’t call back 3) is too disorganized to call back (somewhat likely given his personality) 4) didn’t get message (unlikely: it said ‘message saved’ this time!)
What would you do if you got a message from someone that said “Hello, I’ve remembered my phone number, and I’m going to press hash this time”??
I’m too embarassed at this point to call back and leave a proper coherant message. He’ll think I’m stalking him! But it’s a shame because I really did want some sax lessons.
Bleh. How embarassing.