Yes, it’s true. I’m on the wall of shame for this one.

I’ve always had a rather bad rela­tion­ship with my mes­sage tone for my phone. First it was one of those canned mes­sages where I say my name and it repeats it. Generic, bor­ing, and imper­sonal. But I didn’t have any­thing bet­ter, since I dis­like how I sound over the phone and always seem to get my tone wrong. Then while walk­ing to work last year I had this great idea for a per­sonal greeting.

Knock Knock

Who’s There

Not Nikky… leave a message

It wasn’t per­fect, great, or any­thing pos­i­tive really–but it’s what I had and it was orig­i­nal. I didn’t espe­cially care either, since my phone is always on me and I try to always answer calls. Usu­ally my mes­sages come from when I’m out of service.

So this brings us to the cur­rent day, and I’m work­ing out of our Sil­verdale office three times a week, so I fig­ured out how to for­ward my office phone in Bre­mer­ton (which is on my busi­ness card) to my cell phone. I don’t think any­thing about my cell greet­ing until Mon­day rolls around. It’s about 4:30, and myself and Brid­get were get­ting ready to leave when Sarah (our boss) makes her first appear­ance of the day because she was in meet­ings since like 0800. We dis­cuss some things, and then she ran­domly goes over to her phone, hits speaker, and dials our Bre­mer­ton 4-digit exten­sion.
I’m won­der­ing why she’s doing this, and I say “I for­ward to my cell” right when my pocket started vibrat­ing. I wasn’t sure what she was try­ing to do, so I just ignored the call. Then the “Knock Knock” answer­ing greet­ing came on. It turns out she tried to call me on Fri­day while en route to a hous­ing com­plex and I was out of service–so she heard it then. Sarah was greatly relieved to know that I didn’t actu­ally have that as a greet­ing on an office phone directly. But need­less to say… my mes­sage greet­ing was changed that evening. :)

As Brid­get said on the way home: “I can’t imag­ine her facial expres­sion when she heard that when call­ing you,” and I agree. I can’t imag­ine it either.