Cell phone voice mail

[catnapper]

Hubby and I have an on-going debate about cell phone messages. He constantly leaves messages that say, "Its me, give me a call" or "call me when you get this"

I tell him wastes my time because I see I missed his call. I also see he left a message. So I go through the process of checking my voice mail, and find a message that says its him (I already knew that!) I simply hang up when I get his VM and wait for his phone to tell him he missed a call. He calls me when he sees he missed my call.

Now, I DO leave a message when its important. Like, "I'm caught on the side of the road with a flat!" If I never leave messages, he should pay attention if I actually left one.

Sooo...... how do you deal with voice mail? Hang up and wait for someone to see they missed a call?

PS: This whole debate pertains to people you talk to daily. I leave messages for my mom because she isn't technically saavy enough to look at the missed calls list (She couldn't figure out voice mail for almost a year). I leave messages for friends I talk to once in a while. I leave messages for coworkers. I just refuse to leave a message for hubby!

[Taz_Zoee]

When I called Bruce and didn't leave a message he wouldn't call back. He'd say well if it was important enough you should have left a message. However, now he calls back if he sees a missed call from me. I guess I trained him well enough.
Depending on who it is, I will call back from just a missed call. Some people I won't though. Or I'll text them and say "you called?"

[kuhio98]

I vote - Leave a message!
If you want me to call you back, leave a message.

Missed calls to me means it wasn't important so I'm not calling you back. If you couldn't take the time to leave a message, I'm not taking the time to call you back and see what you wanted.

[happylabs]

I leave a message if it is important. My daughter rarely listens to the message though. She is one to just see my number on her cell and call me back. My son does the same thing. What did you want mom? Listen to the message...duh!

They are the only two I regularly talk to other than my 89 year old mom who doesn't understand new technology at all. Luckily she knows when I am going to call and is there to answer. We have one of those ESP things going between us for as long as I can remember.

As far as husbands or significant others go, I don't have one and I think this is one of the reasons why I never remarried - LOL! They just don' get it. Ha!

[lizbud]

We have one of those ESP things going between us for as long as I can remember.

You too? My Mom & I had that also. We often laughed about it,
it was so neat.

I always leave a msg for my kids & they me. Especially if it's nothing really
important, just chit chat.

[Barbara]

My ex-boss used to talk to my voicemail as if I was there- kind of fun to listen like ten minutes of monologue
My new boss never leaves messages- he knows I will call back once I see he called.
Funny enough the new one is much better in communications than the old one- does that make sense?

Instead of leaving messages I prefer to write texts.