Voicemail

I would not say that I have a phobia of answering machines, but I do not like leaving messages. My premeditated phone messages come out sloppy and weird. I stumble through--often repeating myself and generally sounding like a dingbat.

"Hi... this is Erin and I am calling for this reason. shhhh...Lily be quiet! Momma is on the phone...Oh, yes I am calling for this reason and give me a call back...my telephone number is ###-###-####. Talk to you later. Did I leave my number? This is Erin and my phone number is ###-###-####, call me back."

I hang up and laugh..."What did I just say? I sounded like an idiot!" Maybe some of you have been privileged to hear my voicemail buffoonery yourselves.

Yesterday, I think that I left my best voice message of all time. It was concise, I squeezed in a joke and left my phone number! I hung up surprised--I didn't know that I had it in me. I highly doubt that the recipient of the quality voicemail knows exactly what she received--a 1 in 100 non-idiot Erin voice message. Priceless!