Keep it simple

Or, as my Grandfather would say...Keep it simple stupid!

What could I be referring to? Well, that would be leaving messages love! You see, I'm not interested that you're responding to an email/voice mail that Jake left you three days ago about a proposal on something-or-other but you haven't been able to get back to him until now because you were buying a house and your wife just had her 3rd(!) baby and the cat threw up on the carpet right when you were grabbing your coat to come to work today and then your car broke down and on top of all that you've just been so busy at work with all these deadlines and they're so much harder to meet what with Jenny being laid off a couple weeks ago and all and Oh my god! you've got this huge presentation to the VP of marketing in just a week and you haven't even been able to make it to the grocery store let alone return a phone call!

Yeah, see, I really don't care. All I need to know is your name, your phone number, and the best time for Jake to reach you. That's it! :) Isn't that much easier than giving a perfect stranger your whole life story? Don't you feel relieved that you don't have to tell me all that? I thought you would!