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I just discovered the smoking gun. I just proved empirically (and inadvertently) what we have all known intuitively all along. The answering machines are phony.
I was in an office where no one answers the phone. The reason, I discovered, is that they use the answering machine to weed out undesirables.
I remembered Mike Royko`s advice about junk mail. I have some advice of my own: The next time Mrs. Machine says ”Have a nice day” and then gives you a beep, give it a message that will be certain to trigger a call-back, and then leave a West Coast area code.
