GO! Tell Us About Your Answer Machine Messages
June 17th, 2008 by mike
I’m interviewing debut author, Mark Piggott, over at The View From Here Magazine at the moment and I asked him about a past agent. This is what he said:
My second agent was Dr Radice at Gregory & Radice (now Gregory & Co). Again, I sent her an MS and she left this message on my phone saying something like,
“… I can’t say I enjoyed reading this – it was like a 500 page suicide note – but if you were to try writing something else I’d like to represent you…”
So tell us about your answer machine messages - strange and bizzare stories please!
Answer Machine Photo Credit: Aneyeforapicture
Left: Mark Piggott
G’Day Mike….
have missed you mate…
dont have an answering machine .. I used to but the telemarketers messages, and pranks etc lead me to get rid of it… hehehe.. I fugure if its important they will call back and if its not it didnt matter anyway..
hehehehe…
Hihya AC - sounds a good idea!
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It works lolololol….
Am stopping by your interview later today…
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We had a second line and the woman who had the number before us had a complicated life. We kept receiving messages from an elementary school regarding issues with her son, lots of bill collectors, calls from prison, collect calls from prison and notification when he was released. Oh, and one congratulating her on her marriage in Las Vegas. We were getting calls about 5 times per week. We had the number changed, then we just kept getting messages in Spanish. We no longer have a second line.
Gosh and I love your “We no longer have a second line” ending to your comment!
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Thanks!
I leave the message that came with the machine on. I also never leave my voice because then someone will know who lives there if they hear you. It protects privacy.
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Thanks Mike
Mike
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We guess that message counts as flattering with us about to pepper agents with our book?
THe strangest one we know of is when Jim wa at Nottingham Uni and his voicemail recording was…
‘Hello…
Pause…
Hello…
Pause…
Anybody there?’
Often led to people hanging up after they’ve tried to start a conversation.
Heeee heeeee.
Hello?
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i pause….
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I finally get it the neurons are working today. That is hilarious!!
Not strange but funny.
A colleague of mine was leaving a message for someone but got interupted by someone telling him his next appointment had arrived.
So all the message said was ‘I’m coming’
I don’t think the woman ever called him back to be fair.
if someone doesn’t pick up my call and I go through to voicemail I usually just say
‘please call A&E at (local hospital) we believe you can help identify a body. we think its your mum’
lovely stuff
You should provide some Urban type messages for people’s phones Urban.
How about Jim n Em what should their answer machine message be?
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This could be interesting….
Then again maybe not!
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Nice to see you back to your usual form
**Urban is back people…
Be afraid - be very afraid.
I don’t have voicemail function so either I will answer the phone or the caller will just hang up..
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what we do find here in the Fab’ Photo Gifts office is that people ring at all hours (must be an online thing) anyway, because I’ve set up the phone system to ring both the office and home (never want to miss a call!) if we’re in, we answer it.
When its late at night or a weekend, the first thing people will say is “Oh I wasn’t expecting anybody to answer” yet we find that, with both phones having recording facility, that very rarely do people actually leave a message.
So would those people have left a message if they hadn’t spoken to us? DOn’t think so.
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Oh, I have another one. We had forgotten to turn down the volume of the answering machine one night and at 1 or 2 am, I’m in bed hearing a child throwing a screaming tantrum and someone trying to calm her down. I think, am I dreaming, what the heck is it. Oh well, I’ll go back to sleep, but it continued. So, finally I get up to see what is going on and it is coming from our answering machine. I recognized whose cellular phone it was. It was a friend and coworker. The next workday…I come in and say, I know where you were on Friday at 1 am and Carrie was throwing a fit. She was very apologetic. I forgave her. However, I had a 15 minute tantrum recorded…sheesh!!!!
sounds like those cat meow nudges mandy’s daughter gets when she’s messaging late into the night - keep thinking a cat is in the house still.
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LOL!!!
Brilliant - now that was the type of thing I was hoping for when I wrote this post - nice one Clueless
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Thanks…the really funny thing is that she had no idea she had accidently called me until Monday. Thank God the telephone finally disconnected because the tantrum went on for an hour. For some reason, we couldn’t disconnect from our end. And at that hour of the morning…did I think oh turn the machine off…NO!!!
priceless
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I used to get marketing people call me in China. I could keep them on the phone for about 15 minutes on average simply using the words;
Uhh uhh - general grunt to acknowledge you are listening.
Shen ma - what
De bu qui - sorry?
Wei shen ma - Why?
Ahhh zhi dao - Ahhh I understand/I see.
Look what i made,