Coffee Table Declarations
Wednesday, April 06, 2005
If you recieved a call on your cell phone from a number you did not recognize and the person did not leave a message, would you assume someone had called you accidentally and just forget about it or would you call the number back? I can't tell you how many times people call my company and when I answer they say, "yeah, um, this is Joe, did you just call me?" No, I did not call you Joe. In fact, there are over a hundred people in this office so any one of them could have called you by accident or on purpose and you would automatically come back through me if you called the number on your cell phone.
Today some guy called twice. Once I explained the situation to him and he hung up. A few minutes later he called back and asked if I was sure there wasn't any way I could find out who tried to call him. I told him that unless I individually asked each one of the hundred or so people in the office then there was no way to tell. I reiterated that if they wanted to speak to him, I was sure they would've left a message. He still seemed somewhat unsure.
What the heck? Are people truly that desperate for human contact? You see a strange number on your cell phone and the not-knowing is just eating away at you. You can't sleep, you're tossing and turning because you must know. Who tried to call? Why oh why didn't you just answer your cell phone? Now you have to live with knowing you may never know the nature of the missed call. Who was it, what did they want? Oh the suspense!
And speaking of cell phones, I have another question. Do you or people you know use cell phones only and have no actual land line in your apartment or home? I think that is the weirdest thing. So many people that I've talked to while looking for apartments/roommates say that there is no land line, they just use their cells. I feel like I'm old fashioned, but I just don't trust my cell phone. What if the battery dies? What if there is no reception? What if clutching the phone to your ear for long periods of time really does cause cancer? I still have both - a cell and a land line and I like it that way. I'm going to have my own private land line in my new apartment and I love it.
My mom asked, won't the other roommates be using the land line when they log onto the computer? Well of course not - we're getting DSL! I don't even know what DSL is - I've always used dial up. Apparently I've been living in the 1800's.
Today some guy called twice. Once I explained the situation to him and he hung up. A few minutes later he called back and asked if I was sure there wasn't any way I could find out who tried to call him. I told him that unless I individually asked each one of the hundred or so people in the office then there was no way to tell. I reiterated that if they wanted to speak to him, I was sure they would've left a message. He still seemed somewhat unsure.
What the heck? Are people truly that desperate for human contact? You see a strange number on your cell phone and the not-knowing is just eating away at you. You can't sleep, you're tossing and turning because you must know. Who tried to call? Why oh why didn't you just answer your cell phone? Now you have to live with knowing you may never know the nature of the missed call. Who was it, what did they want? Oh the suspense!
And speaking of cell phones, I have another question. Do you or people you know use cell phones only and have no actual land line in your apartment or home? I think that is the weirdest thing. So many people that I've talked to while looking for apartments/roommates say that there is no land line, they just use their cells. I feel like I'm old fashioned, but I just don't trust my cell phone. What if the battery dies? What if there is no reception? What if clutching the phone to your ear for long periods of time really does cause cancer? I still have both - a cell and a land line and I like it that way. I'm going to have my own private land line in my new apartment and I love it.
My mom asked, won't the other roommates be using the land line when they log onto the computer? Well of course not - we're getting DSL! I don't even know what DSL is - I've always used dial up. Apparently I've been living in the 1800's.
