In Pursuit of Trivial Answers
OK, just so you know, buying shoes that are size 14 is basically impossible. Unless of course I want to look like I’m constantly on my way to play basketball. I guess on the plus size I can always jump higher than the next guy…
I remember like 3 years ago when cell phones were relatively new enough that you couldn’t really distinguish people’s voices (and there was no caller ID), so everyone always had to start the conversation with “hey this is so and so.” These days, I think I can pretty much tell who it is by their voice or obviously by the caller ID. So I always kind of feel like saying “yeah I know” when they tell me who it is. This assumption of course leads to some confusing situations when people use someone else’s phone to give me a call and I assume it’s someone other than who it actually is. But i think we can do away with the introductions and just start talking, saving us a grand total of 5 seconds. Then again…if you think about how many times you would be saving 5 seconds over the course of your life…you might gain an extra day or two, not bad right?
Speaking of saving time on the phone…i think we can also do away with the “leave a message after the beep” instructions. NO ONE ever wants to “leave a call back number” and I’m pretty sure most people realize that the beep is what cues them to leave their message. It would be cool if away messages could somehow transfer to your phone message thing as well, instead of hearing the somewhat redundant “hey, I’m not here leave a message.” Obviously, just like an away message implies you are away (so why write it again?) the fact that you didn’t pick up the phone implies you can’t pick it up. (so why say it again?)
Trivial I know, but really…who wants to read another article about ARAMARK or Iraq
