YTIRUTAM as experienced by (me!) sandra, tvgp
now, in my early 20's.. we did have telephone recorder machines.. an odd technology to acclimate to.. and if you look back, the panel cartoons of the time capture how awkward it felt to
1. record your own voice for the, 'hi.. this is sandy, im not home write now, please leave..
/laugh; giggle... how 'bout i leave it like that.. 'please leave..'
and it might take, 4 or 12 times, before i could successfully record a message that asked the caller to leave their message.. but
2. leaving a recorded message on someone else's phone recorder..! this seemed like, at the time, one of the scariest things ever..
when you are creating your own message, and you mess up..no big deal really.. erase/erase; start over..
but when you are leaving a message on someone else's recorder and you..
"Oh my God.. I messed up! I messed up?!?! -what do I do?!"
and this helps explain the rise in unarmed home burglaries during the time, because under certain circumstances your only hope for recovering from a stuttering, stupid, message you left
was to break in their home and steal their machine. and you'd be pretty impressed with my collection..
anyway.. some people were gifted with the ability to both record very relaxed and natural 'leave your name & number' messages and equally relaxed and natural and all sexy and cool at leaving them:
"......... sandy...... this is keith..... im making dinner.... and i was wondering... should i set the table for one, -or two?.... call me..."
if i were to retype write now just how many times i played this message back, it would take up about a 70 page ring binders worth of e-paper...
so smooth, this guy...
and can you please imagine, getting to hear the voice that made your heart leap in your early 20's...
getting to hear it again at almost 50!... well,
i'll tell you what i texted him:
in my early 20's i played those messages back at least 20 times..
but i am in my late as you can be 40's.. so,
no more than 3 times.. im not about to ...
okay. 7 times maybe...
-because it turns out i am in love with his voice.
posted by SHE @ 7:46 AM
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