In article >,
Dave Smith > wrote:

> Omelet wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > My friends will talk to my answering machine to see if I am there. ;-)
> > They know I use it to screen home calls. If I don't pick up, then they
> > call my cell.
>
> My sister in law uses her answering machine to screen calls. I have been
> there when her son and daughters and other friends have called and asked
> her to pick up, but she doesn't. Whenever we used to call her we got the
> machine. So I don't call. I am not going to waste a long distance call just
> to get the machine.

Then she is not using it right. :-)

I will ALWAYS pick up for family members!
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