Mark wrote:

On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:25:58 +0000, Tim Watts
wrote:

Mark wrote:

On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:19:06 +0000, Tim Watts
wrote:

The truth of how important a call is is whether they leave an
answerphone message...

How important it is to *them*. Which may be completely different to
its importance to *you*.

Almost never important enough for me to stop eating my supper.

But you won't know if you don't answer it ;-)

Anyone I care about will write if there is a problem (eg insurance).

Will they? Will you find out whatever you need to know in time?

Never been a problem in 40 years

I also throw suspcious looking mail in the bin unopened (ie not bearing my
proper name, or not bearing some logo - unless handwritten, in which case
it's someone I know).


--
Tim Watts