I was on my couch watching TV when that thought came across my mind, and no one ever explained it to me
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Because in the old days before cell phones, the phone company didn’t record messages for you. Either you were there to pick up the call, or the call didn’t get answered.
It was also before any kind of caller id, and phones weren’t capable of displaying any numbers or remembering that there had been a call, so if someone called you, and you weren’t there, you didn’t even know it.
Indeed, there was even a time when answering machines were absolutely illegal: the phone company owned the lines to your house, and strictly controlled what you could attach. They had a few models of phones that you could rent, and that was it. There was no third-party market for phones at all.
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