People should have licenses to use phones…

Riddle me this:
You’re not home. Your home phone has an answering machine. You also have a cellular phone, to which you’ve given family members the number to reach you on.

A family member has these numbers.
This family member calls your home number, and the answering machine picks up.

As this family member, do you:
1: Leave a normal “Call me back, 813-000-0000, it’s important.”
2: Hang up, and call the cell number you’ve been given?
3: Hang up, and try the home number in a couple of hours because it’s not that vital?
4: Act like a pure bred fool, and call the names of everyone you know that lives in the house, and tell them to ’stop screening your calls’ and ‘pick up the phone’ ?

Most of us would have picked options 1, 2, or 3, I’d hope.

However, this person decided earlier today, to leave a message as long as the answering machine would let her, doing number four.

What kind of sense does this make? o_O

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  1. Keilaron Technullkitsune’s avatar

    Likely I’d pick 3. If I really needed to contact the person, 2, sort of, only I’d've started with the cell number in most cases. If I get no answers, I’d do 1 on whichever was the last I called.

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  2. Era Dragon’s avatar

    If given the choice, I would go with 2, then leave a message if it was really important, otherwise, I wouldn’t leave a message and try for 3 , and call back in a couple hours.

    But to go so far to leave a message that long. @.@ was it even that important?

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