A Day in the Life...

Telephone - RING! RING!

Girl answers - Hello?

Telephone - (long drawn-out delayed hesitation)

Girl hangs up quickly - CLICK!

I could repeat this scenario many times over to illustrate a typical day at my house. This is definitely a situation where I'm extremely annoyed with technology. With the new system that telemarketers have right now, they have the ability to call a bunch of people at once. When someone answers the phone, a person working with the telemarketing agency connects to your call. This new technology seems to be increasing the number of calls we get at our house. Now, if that was the extent of the problem, I wouldn't care as much because I can always just hang up when I hear the delay. However, the problem is that there are not only delays with telemarketing calls. There are also delays when people make international calls. This delay has caused us to hang up numerous times on Anders' brother who calls us from Suwon, South Korea. We can no longer rely on the hesitation. Now, we actually have to wait to hear the caller's voice and in the end we wind up talking to a telemarketer because we feel bad hanging up after they have already said "hello." Has anybody ever heard of a spam filter for telephones??