You might think most rational people would believe I’m barking up the wrong tree as far as critical issues facing everyday people go, but, I think the fact we still even use voicemail is sufficient evidence that most people aren’t rational. Lest you think I’m fighting a ManBearPig of a problem, consider the following. Suppose each American wastes two minutes of productivity and/or American Idol viewing time because of this inefficient invention. That’s 600 million minutes a day, give or take, and, if nothing else, frankly Ford probably wouldn’t be performing so poorly if all those minutes had been spent watching Carrie Underwood and Clay Aiken traipse around in a Focus. It doesn’t take a hockey-stick graph on a PowerPoint and pictures of polar bears crying to prove that voicemail is lame.
