"None of us are here currently. Please press 1 to leave a message for.......The Cat...............Please press 2 to leave a message for.............The Dog.................and so on
I never leave a mesage because when i do that nobody will give me a call back. normally I will wait for a while and call them back again later.
Answering machines are annoying at it makes me feel that the person on the other side does not want to talk to me and it hurts my feelings.
I like answering machines but I hate to leave a message... I also hate it when people have their children make their answering machine messages.