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What is your take on voice messages?

Written by Best-Achiever from the blog Only the Best is Achieved Here on 17 Aug 2009
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You are calling someone and you get one of these voice messages, will you dial again to listen careful, have a laugh about it or you’d get annoyed and probably drop a phone without leaving a message


1. You just heard the exciting, shocking or whatever news and you have this urge to share them with someone, when you dial their number you get this voice message
You're growing tired. Your eyelids are getting heavy. You feel very sleepy now. You are gradually losing your willpower and your ability to resist suggestions. When you hear the tone you will feel helplessly obliged to leave your name, number and a message
 will you feel insulted and leave without a message or you’d have a laugh and leave a message” 

2. It is very late at night and you are calling this person, you need to pass a certain message to  them and you get this “Hello, this is Death. I am not in right now, but if you leave your name and number, I'll be right with you in few hours
 will you leave your details or try to call them again on the same night to listen careful or you’d get all scared to sleep. 

3. You need to urgently speak to someone and you get this
Hello. I'm available right now but cannot find the phone. Please leave a message and I will call you back as soon as I find it” 
will you call them after few minutes or if you get this “Hi. I'm probably home. I'm just avoiding someone I don't like. Leave me a message and if I don't call back, it's you” 
will you wait to see if you are the person who is being avoided.
 
4. And this “You have reached 083-123-4567 and unfortunately this number has been changed, the new number is 083-123-4567. (Yes, same number.) Please make a note of it” 
My guess is you’d reach for a pen take and realize after you have redialed and listen to the voicemail for the 3rd time that it is actual the same number. 

5. Your loved one live just an hour or less from where you leave, you have set of keys to their house, you call them late at night just to say goodnight and you get “Alright you have finally caught me, I’m with my other partner and things are still in the honeymoon phase for us, im tired of your whining, i knew you’d call before you sleep so i decided to switch off the phone because i didn’t want any interruption or my new partner to suspect that i have others in my life, things are still quite good between us hey
Will you take that as ‘another voice message’ or you’d fume, wake up, find you keys and drive to their place?

What are the most weird, irritating or funny voice messages you heard? Do you leave a message after the tone? …LOL




76 Comments

Best-Achiever
17 Aug 2009 13:18

Let's hear about it bloggers.

maud
17 Aug 2009 13:23

sorry i dont even wait for voice mail,if the phone rings more than four times i put down the phone anginantliziyo ye voice mail.

myname
17 Aug 2009 13:23

Hai BA is there any voicemails like these???? Mna the moment it goes, nywe nywe nywe i immediately drop the phone unless its urgent & its business. Other than that i dont have a voicemail coz i hate leaving it.

dali
17 Aug 2009 13:29

Ma lil bro droozic once did dis one without ma permission naughty rascal i tell u ' helo dalisto's fone helo helo helo ha ha ha ha! she's not available ryt now so leave a msg' en a very important person called tl tl tl he was so pissed poor guy was busy saying helo helo en he left a msg telling dat im sick, how cud i do dat! Nxa! I gave droozic a piece of ma mind. Frm dat day i jst let de mtn lady do her thing, i dont want to traumatize ppl with ma voice tl tl tl

GML
17 Aug 2009 13:29

I hate the hello......... hello..... eish sorry i cant take your call you know what to do after the beep

Heartsbreaker
17 Aug 2009 13:32

@ myname.......me and you both........i hate voicemails as i have not set any on my phone.the minute i realise i'm on voicemail i just hangup the phone.

I think mosadi wa lekgowa is still doing a great job for me so far.(You have reached the voicemail of 072.........blah blah) Lol

Best-Achiever
17 Aug 2009 13:32

yes myname, there are very weird voice messages, my younger brother changes them now and them and they can drive you  mad

Ms. Jay
17 Aug 2009 13:36

I never wait for voice mail, I dont find it useful to leave my message, the person will not call me back, maybe its the pple I know its either they NEVER check their voice mail or they cant call back coz they know stupid me will try them again later if it was that important...

ngwana
17 Aug 2009 13:37

When I was in high school i was dating a guy that went to Wits Tech. He used to checka me quiet regularly even pick me up from school sometime. I was so inlove.

Then one Monday day i call him (after he didnt answer my calls all weekend) and his voicemail has been changed to:


*whiney girl voice*Hey this is Tebza's girl, he cant come to the phone right now cause he is busy with me *giggle* leave him a message and he will get back to you.

I remember it word for word, cause thats how i found out I was not Tebza's girl anymore.   

Ms. Jay
17 Aug 2009 13:39

LOL @ no 1 & 5 - hahahahahhahahah

Best-Achiever
17 Aug 2009 13:40

did you ever call him to find out ngwana or you concluded everything from his voice message

Ms. Jay
17 Aug 2009 13:41

ouch Ngwana.....r u fo real?

GML
17 Aug 2009 13:41

@Ngwana: which year was this? I know a Tebza who went to Wits tech

Matha
17 Aug 2009 13:41

Hate the MTN automatic one that say mtn will send a msg, yeeeeer o kare nka thubega when i think of my last R1.  

Zazacious
17 Aug 2009 13:42

i hate leaving voice msgs i just really dont like sounding like an idiot talking to myself. lol but that last one. Id be at his place in a flash and he would probably be dumped. DAMNN

Best-Achiever
17 Aug 2009 13:45

but that last one. Id be at his place in a flash and he would probably be dumped. DAMNN

and if you find out it was just a voice message?..LOL Zaza

Holiday
17 Aug 2009 13:48

This is Tumi if you wanna TALK, TALK. i love it. 

Loreal
17 Aug 2009 13:54

lol@Ngwana

Mine used 2 say "Congatulatins u've reached me unfortunatly i'm not available right now but if u could leave your name and number i MIGHT call you back"

Oh my younger sisters says: hello hello hello khulumela phezulu angikuzwa yazi khuluma oh bye bye ngoba awufuni ukukhuluma" just imagine

Mathaz
17 Aug 2009 13:54

I hate leaving messages, the fact that i called means i want to enage with you and not leave a message, i'll just keep on calling until you answer, you'll find 10 missed calls from 1 number.

Best-Achiever
17 Aug 2009 13:57

my brother once had ethi "You have dialiled the right number at the wrong time, it is not my fault that you called at the wrong time"

Holiday
17 Aug 2009 13:58

@Matha o tla ikutlwa ur air time yo fela if u keep on calling.

Loreal
17 Aug 2009 14:01

You have dialiled the right number at the wrong time, it is not my fault that you called at the wrong time"

Will definathy try this one LOL!!!!

Cande
17 Aug 2009 14:09

I also never leave messages. When the phone takes me to voicemail i dont listen and just hang-up

blueroze
17 Aug 2009 14:09

the odd ones i heard are:

1. my ex's------hi my phone is not broken; it is probably network issues.
2. a lady who used to stay in the res with me---------hi you have reached .....mom if its you i'm broke. hcoma if its you i've got mgozi. and Thabo (BF then) go to hell i dont wanna talk to you
3. an adolescent cousin-----hi you have reached me. when you "beeep" drop the phone
4. my 22 year old cousin--- a song recorded straight from the cd or radio or whatever, it wont do justice to your ears.

it is irritating

Holiday
17 Aug 2009 14:10

Hi. I'm probably home. I'm just avoiding someone I don't like. Leave me a message, and if I don't call back, it's you.

Phikza
17 Aug 2009 14:34

the; hello hello i cant hear you voicemails irks the living out of me..... and then there are those phones which just rings and rings and you never get to leave the message even if it was something very urgent.... and then there are those MTN Chantelles who will tell to press/enter your number to notify the owner that you called....i mean really now, does Chantelle really notify the owner of the phone that you called????

Best-Achiever
17 Aug 2009 14:38

LOL @ Chantell ... my phone do have a voice mail but it is very professional one...lol because of my work responsibility,  i get to work with clients from all the works of life and i must have a voice message if i cant pick my phone ... And i do call back if someone leaves a message whether private or work related.

Sslave
17 Aug 2009 14:47

That Cell C voicemail woman irritates the heaven out of me. the subscriber you have dialed is not available, please try again later. If you're using cell c you better use the hello hello hello voice mail than this woman's. She sounds, I don't know, hor***y?

Matha
17 Aug 2009 14:52

I figured it was you here comes the beep, deal with it.

nice
17 Aug 2009 15:07

Mine is "nice" hello.......pause.........eeisan voicemail, leave..................(the usual story) . My colleagues get annoyed with it and I told them that if they insist on me changing it then it will be in Zulu and they wont understand a thing. They have stopped asking me to change it.............

The number story is a classic.......maybe I should try in with my phone

Best-Achiever
17 Aug 2009 15:10

tjo Nice... real, this is so unlike you ...LOL

Cande
17 Aug 2009 15:16

Yes Phikza they do send an sms

Ms personality
17 Aug 2009 15:36

mine is i love you guyz call me now and than i'll call now and again and i start 'singing kiss me through the phone"

people always say its irritating i should change it .......what do you guyz think?

Ms personality
17 Aug 2009 15:38

iesh mara its better than umlungu waka cellc ohlebayo - you have reached the mailbox of 074 blah blah...........

mabhebheza
17 Aug 2009 15:44

LOL Im trying pity coz this is a business phone so have 2have dos professional voicemail wud have luved to ry these Lmao

nice
17 Aug 2009 16:02

@ BA, Its a pity you dont have my cell number, you could try it and check for yourself. I did it when I was in varsity and have not changed it since then, it is the only teenage thing that I still have in my life and too in love with it to let it go

Shame mabhebheza, do you get business calls "after hours"? You can try it for one weekend and get some satisfaction

monchooza
17 Aug 2009 16:02

these voicemails irritate the old age out of me.....i dont even listen to them
i call you and you dont ansa...i simply text you
UNLESS vele i dont want to talk to you i am calling you ngoba i am forced by circumstances to, then uma ngithola i voice mail...ngiyajabula ngoba i dont have to talk to you bese i leave my very clear and professional message....one that will make the person not call me back ngoba they got the message very loud and clear

ms.tebby
17 Aug 2009 16:04

I never have time to listen to voice messages coz I hate leaving voicemail with passion!

Lex
17 Aug 2009 16:32

My voicemail is nice and professional,I'm still job hunting so I cant risk potential employers thinking bad of me.But some of the voicemails are irritating...

makgotso
17 Aug 2009 16:42

BA - you just reminded of my dad's voicemail here it goes: Uma umubi umubi, uma umuhle umuhle, uGeorge shiya umlayezo......that was funny, geezz my his soul rest in peace

makgotso
17 Aug 2009 16:44

The voicemail I hate is this one.....hello, helloooo khulumela phezulu angikuzwa.. eish I don't even leave the message,  I just drop the phone never to call again

mabhebheza
17 Aug 2009 16:57

Hahah ur dad makgotso was funny 
@nice i dont get business call after houra but if i do change my voicemail just 2irritate sum il forget 2change it then natso i client iyafonaMonday yhuuuuuu dat wil be the day!!

Toodecent
17 Aug 2009 18:12

I think i have an ok voicemail lately probably shows am growing up, i usually leave a mesage and hates it if people dont do the same or dont listen to them mxnm..

Green.arrow
17 Aug 2009 21:58

I hate my voicemail...i sound a like a primary school kid nommater how proffesional or how i try to deepen my voice......some pple just lidsten to it so tht they can say it back while squinting their voices.....
But i presonally dont listen nor leave voice msges...i was told gore "eja airtime: 
So like my mom and aunt i hang up very fast.......

VusiK
17 Aug 2009 23:12

I disabled my voicemail ... If I don't answer my phone, we can't talk, I'll call you back if I wish to, If I don't, I don't.

Voicemail is a pain in the ass, especially when cheap people dial direct to voicemail. That used to Burn my Ass!

Zazacious
18 Aug 2009 08:02

joke or no joke BA he'd be dumped/.gal Imagine what will be going on in my head on the way tjo way too much emotional trauma

Best-Achiever
18 Aug 2009 08:06

kwa kwa kwa kwa Zazacious... isnt he supposed to joke now and then, nna i wud put that as my voicemessage just to see him worked out....LOL

Katlegom
19 Aug 2009 10:26

eish for mina guys this funny voice messages are just childish, i dont really listen to the whole message i just put the phone down.

i always assume the people who have this childish voice messages are the people who hardly get important calls. really what will a prospective client, or prospective emplyer think of you when he try calling you and get a stupid voicemail?

Katlegom
19 Aug 2009 10:28

this voice messages irritates me like someone who aswers a 'private number' saying "private number hello" WTH???

Toxic
19 Aug 2009 10:36

i have this friend whose voicemessage is still "Hi, this is K....., if you leave your name and number, i'll get back to yooooouuu" just like that Jade song..remember it? Don't walk away song? Came out ages ago! 

She won't change it and her voice doesn't sound the same after all these years, eish!

Best-Achiever
19 Aug 2009 10:45

LOL Tox, take her phone and record her a new one tl tl tl tlt

Katlegom
19 Aug 2009 10:53

The voicemail I hate is this one.....hello, helloooo khulumela phezulu angikuzwa.. 
@makgotso i feel you. that is stupidity at its best, more especially because you end up talking on your own, sies!

dali
19 Aug 2009 10:54

lol katli wena y do u use a private no to call them

sponono
19 Aug 2009 10:59

these were the most annoying i've heard

"hello, helloooo khulumela phezulu angikuzwa...eish lomunt' ang'muzwa..uya-khatha ou...."

"wuuuuh shem!! usuze walinda nevoicemail, cha uyak'thand'uk'khuluma..anyway shiyake lowo mlayezo maybe ng'zokfonela"

Best-Achiever
19 Aug 2009 11:01

kwa kwa kwa Katlego, well that's the whole point with that Voicemail .... anyway it real shows from your typing that you hate voice messages.

you'll die from anger if you can call my teenage brother .....LOL anyway not everyone deals with professionals, some people are just doing it

Best-Achiever
19 Aug 2009 11:02

wuuuuh shem!! usuze walinda nevoicemail, cha uyak'thand'uk'khuluma..anyway shiyake lowo mlayezo maybe ng'zokfonela"

kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa

teev
19 Aug 2009 11:02

was irritated by Ajax's voicemail yesterday on Gen...Jeez, agh maan. 

"hey, this is me-you know what to do"-mfxim I don't leave a message for such v/m's its too stupid.

Freemale
19 Aug 2009 11:09

I just hate voice messages period the minute you dont pick up your phone after 4 rings I hang up.

myname
19 Aug 2009 11:11

this voice messages irritates me like someone who aswers a 'private number' saying "private number hello" WTH???

I hate some1 whose calling me nge private no at nite, that is why i ansa like that K...."Private number Hi" (with that tone of mine)

myname
19 Aug 2009 11:13

leave ur message after piiiiiipp LOL Teev mna i just LOL (& i thought of BA's article)

sponono
19 Aug 2009 11:22

teev.....dont get me started on AJAX...I think he's corny, cheesy and just eeeerrrgh..not to mention his lyrics, so i wasnt suprised about the voicemail

teev
19 Aug 2009 11:24

ha ha ha gama(myname)---I don't ansa unknows at time period.....
kubena these voicemails: "You've reached Mr Mpofu's no, m  sorry that he can't take yo call right now but you can call me his wife at 083...nywe nywe nywe" -for what ke ngoku?????? sies I hate that. not that am jealous ngabantu babantu...but really now?

Phikza
19 Aug 2009 11:27

"private number hello" WTH???................tl tl tl tl tl tl

wuuuuh shem!! usuze walinda nevoicemail, cha uyak'thand'uk'khuluma..anyway shiyake lowo mlayezo maybe ng'zokfonela"..........................ki ki ki ki ki ki ki

monchooza
19 Aug 2009 11:31

another thing that just nyanyisaz me when people say "leave a message and i will call you back" you leave your very detailed message and then they send you a "call back"

i mean why lie and say you will call me back when you know very well awuna airtime???

myname
19 Aug 2009 11:32

Hello Sponono sam (biting my lower lip with that smillllleeeee)

Katlegom
19 Aug 2009 11:43

mina guys i only have the default voice message

@BA agree that not everyone deals with profs but it should go with age. even if you dont deal with professionals your age should tell you that you are old for these funny voice messages.
same applies to these caller tunes, some people are old to use them.

imagine calling a 36 year old lady with a caller tone of pussycat dools "dont cha"
do you take those kind of people seriously?

@dalisto my work phone is private number, there is nothing i can do my lurv

Best-Achiever
19 Aug 2009 11:48

imagine calling a 36 year old lady with a caller tone of pussycat dools "dont cha"
do you take those kind of people seriously?

kwa kwa kwa Katlego.... yes themessages go with age and how playful a person can be ... i learned the age part from my teenage brother, when i want to laugh i even ask him to switch off his phone so i can call and laugh, he has most ridiculous and funny voicemessages and he changes them everytime

myname
19 Aug 2009 11:52

imagine calling a 36 year old lady with a caller tone of pussycat dools "dont cha"
do you take those kind of people seriously


I just have to laugh....im shinified K hihihihihihi LOL

sponono
19 Aug 2009 11:52

Howdy myname...(you look cute when you do that lip thing and you know it..)

Strolicious
19 Aug 2009 11:58

imagine calling a 36 year old lady with a caller tone of pussycat dools "dont cha"
do you take those kind of people seriously?

kwa kwa kwa ....LMBSAO

Tash 1
19 Aug 2009 12:50

Hi. I'm probably home. I'm just avoiding someone I don't like. Leave me a message and if I don't call back, it's you” 

LOL, what a cracker!!!

Lbg
19 Aug 2009 12:55

imagine calling a 36 year old lady with a caller tone of pussycat dools "dont cha"
do you take those kind of people seriously?

bwakakakakaak lol hahahaha killer

belz
31 Aug 2009 16:11

kwakwakwakwakawkawkawkawawkawkawkawkaw, how the hell did i miss this????

belz
31 Aug 2009 16:13

hello hello hello khulumela phezulu angikuzwa yazi khuluma oh bye bye ngoba awufuni ukukhuluma>>>> CTFU!!!!!!

belz
31 Aug 2009 16:17

wuuuuh shem!! usuze walinda nevoicemail, cha uyak'thand'uk'khuluma..anyway shiyake lowo mlayezo maybe ng'zokfonela">>>>> ROFLMAOTIPAL!!!!! finished.

JadaPinkett
02 Sep 2009 09:57

Well I hate voicemails but i lky it when u  were trying to phone then u get mt irritating voicemail which says: " Shame Ushaywe ibhomu anyway jst live ur contact en see if i can fone u back choaw!


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