Voice Mail From Anonymous Caller

Here's what I have to say about technology: 

Just 'cause you CAN do something, doesn't mean you SHOULD.  Left a voice mail a little while ago for a vendor, and she sent me this:

From: Shawna
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 4:49 PM
To: Aileen (US)
Subject: Voice Mail from Anonymous Caller (49 seconds)

Aileen,

We are in the midst of having a new voice mail system installed, so our vm has been sketchy at best. But I just rec’d this nifty mystery e-mail which ‘apparently’ turns talk to text!

See how it interpreted your v-mail below (hee hee).

On a serious note – we are working on getting a new die line showing the trim from the head & foot for you. We’ll get it over asap.

Shawna

From: Microsoft Outlook On Behalf Of Anonymous Caller
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 1:19 PM
To: Shawna
Subject: Voice Mail from Anonymous Caller (49 seconds)

Voice Mail Preview:

Hi easier I'm leaving Shawna if you give me a call I just wanna make sure you got my emails earlier about to die line I think I understand we Shawna Air little nervous and we found the you know five discrepancy in even though you guys told me that it was correct I would need to see something that shows.

Be correct trend because the way the dialing currently look it makes it looks like the train is -- is been 9 inches and so I just need to see something that shows the actual final tram on that timeline so cause so once a moving ahead with it and we're running out of time on this so give me a call -- .

And let's chat thanks bye.

On the one hand, it took me almost a minute to leave this brief message, so I know I was speaking slowly and clearly.  On the other hand, this "translation" did exactly what it needed to do, which was to make me laugh so uproariously that my office mate asked, "Are you looking at that cake website again?" and it sure did oxygenate things in my whole body and blow away some of the blues.

Plus I found a $120,000 error on a vendor estimate, which is always a happy moment for me.