Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Why I Love Caller ID

I should perhaps start, by telling you that I’m not a person who enjoys talking on or even answering the phone. In fact, don’t even like to hear the phone ring.

I’m one of those people who will not spend much time on the phone at all, and then suddenly get a call from a friend who I haven’t spoken to in a while; ending up talking for an hour and a half, catching up.

(that, I don’t mind)

But overall?…I barely use the phone.

Therefore, anything that enables me to NOT have to pick up the receiver, is the BOMB.

Enter….Caller ID.

Caller ID is perhaps one of those miraculous inventions, that should be up there with BOTOX.

(I mean, not that I’ve ever had botulism voluntarily injected into my face)

Because with caller ID, if I see a phone number that I don’t recognize…Viola!…it goes right into voice mail.

The only time I answer the phone, is if it’s a call from say, work, my family, or if I’m expecting someone to call.

I think my favorite reason for loving caller ID, is because it enables me to dodge the bombardment of painful solicitor calls.

You see…I’m one of those rude people who immediately HANGS UP on solicitors, as soon as they start talking.

So rather than be totally rude, I can just be half-way rude…and simply pretend that they don’t even exist.

I understand that this is their job and all (to call people up and harass them, while eating breakfast, lunch and dinner), but I will not subject myself to it.

I remember when caller ID first came out and so many people were outraged that their telephone number could be recognized by the person they were calling, because they felt like it was an invasion of their privacy.

And I could see their point, because at first, I sort of felt that way too.

(especially since I love making prank telephone calls on the weekends)

However since then, telephone companies have added features that allow you to BLOCK your number from being seen.

I thinks it’s clever how these companies offer us a feature, then create another feature to counteract the whole purpose of the initial feature.

And I think that’s called…

…“Creatively having us by the golf BALLS”