New Voicemail Greeting

[canyonwalker]

It occurred to me today I needed to change my voicemail greeting. Some actually left me a message and joked about the fact my greeting says it's 2022 when it's already 2023. Yes, I foolishly included the year in my outgoing message. It was:

Hi, this is Canyon Walker, and you've reached my voicemail. Since it's 2022 I assume you know what to do next....

Yeah, it was kind of a mistake to include the year in the message. That means I have to change it every 12 months! ...And I have been changing it every 12 months, as I've been using greetings like this for several years now.

So today I rerecorded my greeting. This time I took out the reference to the year.

Hi, this is Canyon Walker, and you've reached my— Wait, you know what? We've had voicemail for, like, thirty years now. I think you know what to do next.

Now I can go a few years before changing my message. 🤣

Comments

[canyonwalker]

That's a good one! I said 30 years referring to how long the technology has been commonplace. Its commercial availability is almost always years before that, and its design even further back. For example, the first patent application for a mobile phone was filed in 1917!