Voice Mail
Our home phone number is one digit off from a national hearing aid foundation/company. Occasionally, we get phone calls from people who can't hear, looking for information on their hearing aids. Most of the time, we get their voice mails: they can't hear the message, I'm assuming, that says who we are. Here's a message left for us this morning:

[gentleman, southern "good ol' boy" accent] "Well, I'll tell ya how it is. You won't talk to me 'cause I'm fixin' to go to Myrtle Beach. I just wanted to astchya question about one of my hearing aids is, has a little beep. Uh, it doesn't do it but maybe one-st a day or maybe twice-st a day, but I was just wonderin' if there was anytihng, I know it's nothing major, but I just wanted to get y'all's input but that's aight I'm goin down yonda to the beach and let 'em catch 'em with my reckless eyeball. Bye bye."

I want to call back and say, "Sir, you're supposed to be hearing those beeps throughout the day. They're connected to your pacemaker, so if you're only hearing one or two beeps per day, we suggest that you quickly call your cardiologist. If that's not the problem, it's probably the batteries. Thanks for calling."
- posted by Rick @ 13:13