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Top Ten Most Annoying Voicemails

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Spinvox recently put together a list of the top ten most annoying voicemails that people get. Its funny that most of these are common occurences, at least in my experience. Here’s the list:

  1. The Marathon Message – The extremely long voicemail that never ends.
  2. The Death March – Leaving a phone number at the end of a long voicemail. If you missed it, you now have to listen through the entire message just to get the phone number.
  3. The Screaming Eagle – The voicemail left in a noisy bar or as a fire truck is passing by
  4. The Drunken Dispatch – The classic drunk-dial voicemail
  5. Voicemail Interrupted – As the person is leaving the voicemail, they stop in the middle to have a conversation with someone else or answer another call before they return to finish the message.
  6. The Misguided Message – A person or telemarketer leaves a message for you that was actually intended for someone else.
  7. Voicemail Incognito – The anonymous voicemail, where the caller assumes you can identify their voice
  8. The Dehydrated Dispatch – Any voicemail left by someone with a bad hangover.
  9. One Way Wonder – When the person thinks they are speaking to you when they are actually talking to your voicemail
  10. The Pocket Dialer – The person that accidentally calls you because the phone is in their pocket or purse and isn’t key-locked, leading to an endless soundtrack of them walking down the street, driving, or having a conversation with someone else.

Surely you’ve encountered at least a few of these infamous voicemails. Personally, I actually disabled voicemail on my cellphone for the past few months, and it’s been phenomenal. I don’t have to bother dialling in to retrieve a message from someone saying “Hey, it’s John, call me when you get this” when I can just look at my caller ID to see that John called.

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