Maybe you're a bill collector.

[conuly]

Maybe you're a telemarketer. Maybe you're calling from a doctor's office, and god I hope not, because if your response to "I'm sorry, who is this?" is to give your own first and last name and not the name of your employer and the reason you are calling, then as far as I'm concerned you are a wrong number.

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[alexseanchai]

I set my ringtone to None without vibrate, same as most of my phone notification sounds, and my voicemail message to something like "Hi, you have reached the voicemail box of Alex [Seanchai]. If it is important to you that I get your message, you need to text or email me, instead of leaving a voicemail. Thank you for your commitment to disability accessibility."

my text app actually does make noise, and if I actually want them to contact me then I have already given them my email with instructions to use that instead of my phone number. (unless they're the pharmacy, but if the pharmacy calls me it's probably bc I got bored of sitting in a chair by the pharmacy and am wandering the rest of the Fred Meyer, and I am probably checking my phone every thirty seconds for if there's a missed call from that contact.)

weirdly enough I don't get nearly as many texts as I get calls from unknown numbers.