Our answering machine message features my husband’s voice, and it announces both of our names fully (since I hyphenate). So when someone calls, they hear, “You have reached the number for ManOftheHouse and Kathryn Petro-Harper. Please leave a message.” That’s pretty clear, isn’t it?<\/p>\n
Yesterday a woman left the following message: “Oh, I was trying to reach the Smiths. That sounds like your voice, Gregory. This is Somebody’s Mommy, and I’m calling to try to set up play dates for Kid 1 and Kid 2. Please give me a call!”<\/p>\n
Sometimes, if the caller leaves a number I’ll call back and tell them their message didn’t reach the intended party. But other times I feel a little mean. I figure that if the announcement is clear (I mean really<\/em>, it’s not a generic “We’re not here right now” message), and they are stupid enough to ignore the information and leave a message, they get to deal with the consequences without my help. <\/p>\n In this case she didn’t leave a number. But please, can someone explain why<\/em> people do this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our answering machine message features my husband’s voice, and it announces both of our names fully (since I hyphenate). So when someone calls, they hear, “You have reached the number for ManOftheHouse and Kathryn Petro-Harper. Please leave a message.” That’s pretty clear, isn’t it? Yesterday a woman left the following message: “Oh, I was trying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-science","category-technology"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11258,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions\/11258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}