I'm almost twice your age and I disagree entirely.
I won’t even answer my phone unless it is work related or scheduled.
I do not have texting on my phone (it's blocked). I figure if the matter isn't important enough for the caller to talk to me then it's not important enough for me to pay any attention to.
I am NOT a slave to Pavlov’s Bell.
But you are a slave to the little buzzing (or whatever) your phone does when you receive a text. We are surrounded by people who are constantly texting each other. During all sorts of places and times when they should not be doing it. Driving, at movies, when talking with others, at dinner etc. Texting is a huge invasion of privacy.
Text me. I will read it when I feel like it and reply when I feel like it.
That's what answering machines are for. If it's not important enough for you to deal with it now, it's not important enough to communicate at all.
And I don’t have to put on a happy “Hi ya” voice either.
Always put on the incredibly cheerful happy voice. It annoys people to no end and yet they canb't say a thing about it. (OK I'm evil that way). I'm even cheerful when I'm brushing off telephone solicitors.
SMS rulz 1
This line must be written in swahili or something. I can't figure out how to pronounce it. :^)
But John, think back to 1985 or so. The very answering machines you think are the answer (no pun intended) were deemed as of the devil by the cranks of that time. “I’m not speaking to a #$(%#& machine! If you can’t pick up, I don’t want to talk to you!”
So every era has new stuff, and cranks that want to stick with the last two decades’ stuff (but no farther back than that).
Just one crank to another....
Rock and roll is just a fad and who would EVER want to carry a telephone around with them everywhere they go?
HAHAHAHAHA!
Good bye 20th century....