Day 72 - The Weaker Sex
Mar. 13th, 2010 06:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolfsbrideI don't know what it is about being female that makes men think you're an idiot. And yes, I realize that's a huge blanket statement and not all men are like that but whatever :P
Anyway, today I went over to my mom's to help her hook up her new phone. She bought it because the auto answering system on the other one seems to be broken. At the very least it doesn't record messages any more. While I was there, her friend came over.
As I took things out of the box, I realized that this phone, which is SIMILAR to her old phone, doesn't have an auto answering system. So I mentioned to her that she should leave her old phone hooked up for now and take this one back and get one with an auto system, since to buy an answering machine to go with the new phone would probably be more money than to get one with it built in.
I had no sooner said that than her friend pipes up.
Him: What's wrong with the answering machine?
Me: It's broken.
Him: How do you know it's broken!
Me: It doesn't take messages any more.
Him: Are you sure? Then he goes over to the phone. Well, here's your problem right here! This light shouldn't be on.
Me: *refraining from rolling my eyes* No. That's the light that tells you the answering machine is on. If it's not lit, the answering machine is turned off.
Him: I don't think this light should be on.
Me: *sigh* I go over to the phone and push the on/off button* The phone says very clearly - THE MACHINE IS OFF! and the light goes out. Then I push the on/off button again and the phone says - THE MACHINE IS ON! and the light comes back on. See?
Him: Well then, it must be working!
Me: No. I call mum every day and if she's not home to pick up the answering machine never kicks in. Whatever it is that used to run that part doesn't seem to be working any more.
It's evident he doesn't believe me because he takes out his cell phone and calls my mum. The phone rings and rings and rings and rings and, well, you get the idea. After letting it ring for about three minutes, he hangs up and then pushes the on/off button. The phones goes THE MACHINE IS OFF! and the light goes out. Then he pushes it again. The phone helpfully tells us THE MACHINE IS ON! and the light comes back on.
FOR THE NEXT HALF AN HOUR, HE STANDS THERE PUSHING THE BUTTON! I swear after hearing THE MACHINE IS OFF! THE MACHINE IS ON! five hundred times, I was ready to strangle him with the cord. Honestly, by the end, even the phone was disgruntled.
Finally my mum says, maybe we should go return the phone and they left.
It's no wonder they kept women drugged up in olden times. The incidences of homicide would have otherwise been off the chart.
Anyway, today I went over to my mom's to help her hook up her new phone. She bought it because the auto answering system on the other one seems to be broken. At the very least it doesn't record messages any more. While I was there, her friend came over.
As I took things out of the box, I realized that this phone, which is SIMILAR to her old phone, doesn't have an auto answering system. So I mentioned to her that she should leave her old phone hooked up for now and take this one back and get one with an auto system, since to buy an answering machine to go with the new phone would probably be more money than to get one with it built in.
I had no sooner said that than her friend pipes up.
Him: What's wrong with the answering machine?
Me: It's broken.
Him: How do you know it's broken!
Me: It doesn't take messages any more.
Him: Are you sure? Then he goes over to the phone. Well, here's your problem right here! This light shouldn't be on.
Me: *refraining from rolling my eyes* No. That's the light that tells you the answering machine is on. If it's not lit, the answering machine is turned off.
Him: I don't think this light should be on.
Me: *sigh* I go over to the phone and push the on/off button* The phone says very clearly - THE MACHINE IS OFF! and the light goes out. Then I push the on/off button again and the phone says - THE MACHINE IS ON! and the light comes back on. See?
Him: Well then, it must be working!
Me: No. I call mum every day and if she's not home to pick up the answering machine never kicks in. Whatever it is that used to run that part doesn't seem to be working any more.
It's evident he doesn't believe me because he takes out his cell phone and calls my mum. The phone rings and rings and rings and rings and, well, you get the idea. After letting it ring for about three minutes, he hangs up and then pushes the on/off button. The phones goes THE MACHINE IS OFF! and the light goes out. Then he pushes it again. The phone helpfully tells us THE MACHINE IS ON! and the light comes back on.
FOR THE NEXT HALF AN HOUR, HE STANDS THERE PUSHING THE BUTTON! I swear after hearing THE MACHINE IS OFF! THE MACHINE IS ON! five hundred times, I was ready to strangle him with the cord. Honestly, by the end, even the phone was disgruntled.
Finally my mum says, maybe we should go return the phone and they left.
It's no wonder they kept women drugged up in olden times. The incidences of homicide would have otherwise been off the chart.
