The Gorge Amphitheatre is one of the most popular concert venues in Washington. It's over on the other side of the mountains in George, Washington and regularly hosts enormous concerts like DMB, The Who, and John Mayer. It's also the home of the Sasquatch Music Festival. The website says they can accommodate 20,000 people at a single concert!
I've never been to The Gorge before, but that's about to change. Chelsea, Tim, Tyla and I are heading over there today to see Jack Johnson! To complete the experience, we will be camping there overnight. You can be sure we'll have plenty of stories and pictures when we get back!
Press 1 to leave a message, or wait until the beep. Press 5 to page this person. Press 6 to hear more options."
I've heard that a bazillion times, but I never think about it. Today I did. Paging? When I think of pagers I think of drug dealers from the 90s and sneaking out of class in high school to send messages to Scott on his pager. Then I'd rush back to the class room, wait for his pager to go off, and then wait for him to start laughing when he deciphered the message.
But seriously. What is paging and why do I want to do that? I called my own voicemail and it's slightly different.
At the tone please record your message. When you are finished recording, you may hang up or press 1 for more options. To leave a call back number press 5.
A call back number? How does that get displayed. I searched around on the web and tried it out on my phone. It turns out that pressing 5 lets you type in a 16 digit number which is then delivered to the handset as an SMS message. On the phone, you can easily select the number and dial it back.
I'd love to know how many people actually use this. Why wouldn't you just use a text message to begin with? And if you call someone and they don't answer, why are they going to call you back just because you send them your number?
The whole thing seems goofy to me, but at least I understand my options.