Voicemail

I'm very thankful that I can get messages when I'm not around to answer my phone.

Yet, for some reason, that little "New Voicemail" icon on my cell phone really irks me.

Mine's a little, green, faceless guy who shows up in the bottom corner and won't leave.

He always overstays his welcome.

I just can't stand having that icon there. CAN'T STAND IT!

So I check it.

And then I have to put in my pass code.

Because someone might hack into my voicemail and steal important information like...my phone messages.

GASP!

So I put in my passcode and all that, and I get to the main menu. And I have two new messages (I'm very popular. Either that, or I lost my phone for about a week).

And to get to the two new messages, I have to press 1.

And it finally plays the first message.

But I don't want to hear that one (it's from my arch-frenemy).

So I want to skip that one and go to the next. But my voicemail won't let me!

It's non-discriminatory. It thinks all voicemail messages are just as important as others. But they're not.

So I have to listen to all that just to get to one I actually want to hear.

And now I'm exhausted and probably have ear cancer from being on the phone so long.

And don't even get me started on saved messages.

I have four saved messages, and I really need to hear this specific one. But, no skipping!

So I have to listen to eight minutes of voicemail messages just to get to the one I need to hear, and by then, I've forgotten why I needed to hear it in the first place.

Good intentions, voicemail, but you're flawed.

Seriously flawed.