Word: voicemails
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...find an alternate way home from Logan because he “borrowed” your car from the airport parking lot using the spare set of keys you unwittingly left in your top dresser drawer and then alerting you to this fact with only a terse voicemail stating that he would be unavailable to pick you up in your own car because he had taken it to New York in order to lavish the woman you once believed to be your soulmate with a romantic weekend in the big city...
...last Friday, administrators had changed the group’s voicemail message to inform callers that “at this time, SafetyWalk is not operating,” advising students instead to use shuttle or van service provided by the college...
...They act as a means to open up lines of communication between the two parties,” he writes in an e-mail. “And they demand a response. It’s easy to forget to return a voicemail, or ignore an email. But the paper trail is difficult to cover-up with letters like this...
...find myself asking, “What in the Lord’s name are all those people on cell phones talking about when they walk to and from classes? Is the scenery that dull? Who are they talking to? And what of these people who religiously check their voicemail after each class, during every intermission and at dinner?” The obvious answer is that these are people with highly evolved social lives that are much more exciting and important than my own. I suppose I feel that, because I live with my friends, I don?...
...fulfilling, in a way, to have a phone nestled snugly in the cell-phone pouch on my purse, a pouch that had previously been reserved for Tic Tacs. Of course it took me a week or two to figure out how the voicemail system operated, but after that I never received any messages anyway. It was nice to be able to keep in touch with my parents and my boyfriend—that is, when I could. I discovered, in the forests of Minnesota and among the plateaus of Wyoming, that most of the middle of the country...