[After the success of Friday’s “Business Phone Messages” on the Grif Net blog, we decided to share some ideas for your HOME phone that we’ve tried.]
** Hi! Bob's answering machine is broken. This is his refrigerator. Please speak very slowly, and I'll stick your message to myself with one of these magnets.
** Hello. Bob here. I'm home right now but cannot find my cell phone. Please leave a message and I will call you up as soon as I find it. IF I find it.
** Hi, this is Bob. I'm sorry I can't answer the phone right now. Leave a message, and then wait by your phone until I call you back.
** Hey guess who this is? You guessed it. Guess what you have to do now? Yep, you guessed it. Now, guess what's next? Wow. You guessed right again.
** Hello, you have reached the Griffin Family and we cannot come to the phone right now. Please leave your name, phone number, short message, social security number, and credit card number and we will call you when we're done shopping.
** Hi. Bob here. I am probably home, I'm just avoiding someone I don't like. Leave me a message, and if I don't call back, it's you.
** If you are a burglar, then we're probably at home cleaning our weapons right now and can't come to the phone. Otherwise, we probably aren't home and it's safe to leave us a message.
** (Rod Serling imitation:) You are dazed, bewildered, trapped in a world without time, where sound collides with color and shadows explode. You see a signpost up ahead -- this is no ordinary telephone answering message. You have reached, "The Twilight Phone".
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Dr Bob Griffin
"Jesus Knows Me, This I Love!"