I called a friend I've known since highschool yesterday. We're not super close now, but we do talk periodically. It's a long distance cost for me. The call went straight to VM so I figured someone was on the phone, so I left a message saying that I'd called and that I'd love to hear from her.

I hang up the phone and 3 min later my phone rings, and it's her husband calling me back, saying in an accusatory tone of voice "I was on the phone and saw this number come in, did you call me?" I was polite and said "Oh Hi T, it's me, I just called to talk to R., of course you wouldn't recognize my number as I don't call that often." He said that R was out working, and I said, "Oh ok, can you just letter know I called then". He then tells me, that "You'd better call back and leave a message, because by the time she get's home, I'll have forgotten about it." (Hello - has anyone heard of writting down a message.) I said, I did leave a message on the voicemail when I'd just called. Then he proceeds to tell me "Oh yeah, we have two voicemails, the comcast, and the machine in our bedroom - you left a message on the comcast VM and we hardly ever check that." At this point I'm a little stunned so I say "Oh", He finally says, "Well, I'll try to remember to tell her to check the voicemail."

Is it really that hard to pass on a message?

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