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Ditto...If you've ever gotten mad at a vendor for not returning your 
call......
It might also help to point out that even email isn't foolproof.  If you 
NEED a reply and don't get one, try again, please!
I thought it was just me going into the "answering machine trance" hoping to 
make sense of it!
Nancy Mitts


> Patti,
> I think something like this would make a great article for the RM column in
> EN!!!  I go through the same thing every April for my ride.  Dawn Carrie

> On 8/17/07, Patti Stedman <procompsvc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This is half in jest, but half serious too.
> > If you leave a message for a Ride Manager (or hell, anyone), please:
> >
> > 1.)  Speak slowly and clearly.  You know your name and your address and
> > your phone number and can pe el it off faster than they read those 
> legalese
> > disclaimers on the pharmaceutical ads saying that you might experience 
> oily
> > discharge and seizures, but I don't, and when you say it four hundred 
> MPH, I
> > end up rewinding the tape 12 times to try to catch it, and end up 
> guessing
> > at half of it anyway.  You're allowed to repeat it too, to make sure I 
> got
> > it the first time.
> >
> > 2.)  Enunciate.  If you have a mouthful of Cheerios, please chew and
> > swallow before leaving a message on my answering machine.  Likewise, if
> > you're drinking heavily, you may want to call back when you're a bit 
> sobered
> > up.
> >
> > 3.)  If you hear an odd beep while leaving your message, and mind you, 
> I'm
> > no mechanical genius, something probably went wrong.  Maybe the message 
> went
> > through, maybe it didn't, but please call back and leave the message 
> again.
> > I can easily delete a repeat message, or can use it to try to interpret 
> your
> > phone number because you messed up #1, but if I only got your area code 
> and
> > then a dial tone, it's hard to call you back.
> >
> > 4.)  If you don't hear from me, either with an entry in the mail or a 
> call
> > back, within a few days, please call me back.  Something went wrong and 
> my
> > Catholic guilt will be great relieved if you don't think I'm just 
> ignoring
> > you because I'm mean.  Actually, I am mean, but I am good about 
> returning
> > phone calls.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > --Patti Stedman (NE)

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