The Vast Conundrum

One of my pet peeves is when people mark their messages as “urgent”. I don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve never gotten an “urgent” message from anyone except perhaps from the same people who mark every message they send as urgent. Since I only have one person who regularly calls me on the phone anymore, when I hear “urgent message” at the top of a voicemail, I know who sent it, and I delete it un-heard and un-lamented. It is one of the most annoying things to me, and I only wish there were some way for me to remove the option from my voicemail.

I really hate telephones. I like my smartphone, but I’d like it a lot better if it couldn’t be used for phone calls. Someone recently told me it was a form of PTSD from my Wall St. days. I think it’s true.