We never had caller ID on our home phone until recently. All those years, I always let it go to the answering machine. Anyone that knew us would leave a message, we'd hear who was talking, and pick it up if we knew them. . We had a lot of hang ups that would never leave a message. Decades of this procedure. Just recently my sister-in-law commented that we never answer the phone. I told her we screen all of our calls. She said she figured if we didn't answer, we weren't home, so as soon as she heard the answering machine message, she'd hang up! 20 years she never knew we screened our calls. :laughing:
