S'me!

Once, when I was moving, I decided to finally delete all the old messages on my answering machine. There were about 90. About 45 of them were from Jackie, and as I was hitting "FORWARD", "DELETE", I realized that she said "Hey, it's me" at the start of every message. So I deleted every message but hers, and was then entertained for 3 minutes by:

Hey, it's me BEEP!
He-ey, it's... me-eeBEEP!
Hey it's me (muffled due to a lot of cheese in her mouth).... BEEP!
Hey, (cough, cough), s'me BEEP!
Hey, it's MEEE! BEEP.
Hey, it's me. BEEP!

Since then, she's tried to vary her voicemail messages - Hello, this is Jackie, Greetings, Good morning, Top o' the morning to you!, Hi Mary, etc.

But this weekend, I had a crappy weekend. I didn't pick up the phone. When I finally did, I had about 9 personal messages, all from different people.

And they all started "Hey, it's me".

And I realized how lucky I am to have people in my life that can leave a "Hey, it's me" on my voicemail - who know I'll recognize their voice, and smile.

Lucky.

:)