Another day, Another theory

As I sit in front of my super cool computer on this beautiful Saturday afternoon, I am torn between blogging topics. I can't decide if it's the fact that the wonderful "dentist drugs" have not worn off (I'm actually pretty sure I vomitted the remains of that up along with my soup last night) or the fact that too much time to sit around and think has proven to be just that... too much time to sit around and think.

My latest conspiracy theory it is, then:

Cell phone voicemails. I was once accused of having a "too long voicemail." Now I don't have one at all, well except for the automated one that comes on when I'm "not available." BUT, now phone compaines are adding on to the voicemail process. NOW after a personalized message the caller (96.3% of the time) has to wait for that really friendly-and-has-a-lot-of-personality lady to throw her two sense in. No longer can we just have, "sorry I missed you, leave a message." BEEEEP. No, now we have her there to clarify anything that might have been forgotten (or maybe left out on purpose?). So after your short and sweet message, here we go. Another 10 seconds of "talk time" that will be added on to your phone bill. Because obviously we need our voicemail assistant to come on, after hearing the voicemail about not being around, and tell us that the person is not there, but here's how to leave a message. After the tone. No kidding. I actually sort of see this as a step backwards. If she would have appeared like 10 years ago when voicemail was just coming out, then we would have all nodded when she gave us the directions to "leave a voice message, wait for the tone." Because ten years ago, it was a little confusing what to do and when that BEEEP was heard. Not so much anymore.

So back to why this is a conspiracy theory. I think that people were getting real smart and got all of their friends in on this whole, "leave a short voicemail because then it won't take up so many of my minutes/seconds to leave you a message," and so cell phone companies were losing all sorts of money. So they hired this lady to add on to everyone's voicemails so message calls would automatically be 'that much longer.' Sorry to say I don't have a solution to any of this. I guess she really just annoys me is all. So I turned it into a conspiracy theory.