My husband has a good professional job and for at least the last 5 years has had the use of a Blackberry paid for by work. He also has a secretary who, when he was away from the office communicates with him via the Blackberry, mostly I think by email/text etc.
My husband, who is of mature years, sometimes has blocks/blanks about some quite basic bits of technology. Despite this he uses a PC and laptop on a daily basis, and has recently started being able to load material onto a website.
This evening I am quite busy, but wanted to give him some messages before going out. So I rang the Blackberry, got voicemail and left him all the relevant info. Five minutes later I was in the middle of something and he rang me.
I said, 'Did you get my message?'
He said, 'No'
I said, 'Well check your Blackberry. All the information's there, and I'm in the middle of something right now.'
He then asked me to tell him what I'd said. And I said no.
He then claimed he didn't know how to access the voicemail on his Blackberry.
I told him this was ridiculous and I had left him messages on his voicemail on quite a few earlier occasions. If he had temporarily forgotten how accessing voicemail he had time - he's on a 80 minute train journey - to work out/remember how it's done.
Do you feel it's unreasonable to be exasperated?
It is also my birthday. (He left the house shortly after 7 and it is unlikely I will actually see him till 11pm.) No gifts have been given as I have failed to state what I wanted. I don't terribly mind about him not being around today or the absence of presents. We'll have a birthday meal at the weekend.
But for some reason the phone incompetence does rankle.