Today’s invention is an answerphone that cuts in immediately the phone begins to ring.
It says, “Hi, If I don’t answer in the next three rings, call me later.”
This would be particularly useful for people, like me, with only one receiver located on a different floor of the house, and who don’t want to listen to their phone ringing apparently forever.
It would also relieve me of the dangerous compulsion to leap up and sprint downstairs in an attempt to get to the phone -only for it to stop ringing just before I can pick it up.
Actually forget that. I don’t do the whole phone thing. Just email me.