# What is the most important phone message that you have missed? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 11, 2007, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-important-phone-message-that-you-have-missed/411421 "2007-07-11T21:23:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sofaspud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8491ac/32.png) [@Sofaspud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofaspud)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-important-phone-message-that-you-have-missed/411421/21 "2007-07-12T16:25:06Z")
Hmm… I have to go with the time the phone rang while my roommate and I were goofing off on the Xbox. I said fuck it and didn’t bother answering. When I got around to checking voicemail the next morning, turns out the call was from Kelly. The girl I’d been trying to get together with for a couple months. Who had said, earlier that day, that she might call if she wanted some ‘company’ that night. In my defense, she’d said that before and not called, but still. Dammit! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-important-phone-message-that-you-have-missed/411421/22 "2007-07-12T17:15:37Z")
If I missed it, how would I know? ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-important-phone-message-that-you-have-missed/411421/23 "2007-07-12T17:21:39Z")
In the pre-DNC list days I was getting half a dozen telemarketer calls a day. None of these came through on the caller ID and I figured if it was anyone legitimate they’d leave a message. At least one of these daily unidentified calls, as it turned out, was coming from a prospective employer (and I was unemployed at the time), as I found out when they finally decided to leave a message. By the time I called them back I found out that the position had been filled. :smack: Damn telemarketers! ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-important-phone-message-that-you-have-missed/411421/24 "2007-07-12T18:06:45Z")
[QUOTE=Sunrazor] What a shame – I would have granted it! You’d make a cute couple. [/QUOTE] Yes. Drop dead unbelievably gorgeous mixed with homely shlub probably does average out to “cute”. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-important-phone-message-that-you-have-missed/411421/25 "2007-07-12T21:55:34Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] Yes. Drop dead unbelievably gorgeous mixed with homely shlub probably does average out to “cute”. 😉 [/QUOTE] So Gigi, I didn’t realize that you were such a looker. ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-important-phone-message-that-you-have-missed/411421/26 "2007-07-12T22:09:49Z")
I got a call back for an interview for what was basically my absolute never-in-a-million-years dream job about a day into a two-week vacation. Of course they had filled the position by the time I got the message. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-important-phone-message-that-you-have-missed/411421.md?page=1)