An answering machine? In 2015?

My home phone plans have come with optional voicemail for quite some years, but I generally have it disabled by the provider.

I prefer to just hit the console buttons to get, replay, save or delete my messages, rather than dialing a Voicemail service and listening to the delays of the annoying menus for everything. Any of the multi-handset home phone units come with an answering machine base.

I'm not keen on cloud storage of anything personal, anyway. I don't feel confident in the protection from either loss or leakage. Even my rarely used Facebook account, in which I only have about a dozen pictures of my pets, has had several of the pictures inexplicably disappear multiple times.

My mother still has a working answering machine - and yes a record player and a vcr. Though I'm pretty sure the latter hasn't been used in a decade.


"Say yes with your voice, not just your eyes"

I hate voice mail and answering machines. And here I thought it was the cat's pajamas in the 80's and 90's. I remember making those cutesy personalized greetings. Now I just keep the default greeting.

I rarely check my VM. I just see what calls I missed and call people back. I don't leave VM's much either. I just assume text and be text.

Oh, and landlines ... I know few people who still keep a landline. I got rid of mine nearly a decade ago with no regret.

I prefer cable (not for TV. I refuse to pay for television, that's why we have advertising) for my internet high speed and no contract.

Well, a lot of people have record players as bands are still releasing music on that format. Maybe your grandparents are more with-it than you.

I collect dead pigeons then I press them between the pages of a book.

So, you love something, that enables you to call someone anywhere in the world, but has the disadvantage that you can only move it a few meters, from its stationary point. Yet when they took that thing, and improve it so it does the same, but from anywhere without being tied down to a place you hate it?

I don't get your logic, the only thing I get from your post, is that you hate progress...

Do you also have a typing machine yet hate computers?
Or have a Well in the backyard and hate piped water suply?