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This is an actual phone message our receptionist just gave me (at 8am. On 6/30. [In a month that only has 30 days.] But you knew that.):

bliccy:

To: ???
Date: 6/31
Time: 3:18pm
From: n/a
of: n/a
Phone: n/a
Message: will call back later

At my previous job the secretary has one of those plastic, round, spinning things divided up like pie pieces. Each “slice” was where she would put phone messages for us.

She routinely put the wrong message into the wrong slice, so you’d end up getting the wrong message (which was especially fun because she usually did not put who the message was To on the slip, so you’d call someone back and find out that they had actually wanted to talk to someone else, who hasn’t called them back because they never got the message.

But my all time favorite was the pink “While You Were Out” slip that I got which said, in its entirety:

“Please call.”

I took the slip, walked into my boss’ office, and said “We need a real voicemail system.” He replied, “OK, you’re in charge of it.” In hindsight, I think he might have a) been kidding or b) thought that by putting it on me that I would object and say it wasn’t my job (it wasn’t, but no one else was going to do it) so nothing would happen.

I immediately made a bunch of phone calls to different places in town and we had an estimate in time for the next meeting of The Deciders.

Sidenote: the person we eventually hired to install the system turned out to be very cool, hired The Wife to work with her, and we’re friends to this day.

Somewhere in a file folder, I still have the “Please call” slip as a souvenir.