The Answer Machine. Do you remember the first time you had to set up your answer machine, and you had to leave a message on it for others to hear? Was it embarrassing? Did you feel terrified of the machine? Well today my daughter and I were trying to leave a message on one, and my tongue twisted, I forgot half the words, everything went wrong. We should have had a camera set up so we could make takes of this procedure. I never laughed so hard, and usually half way through the message. About 20 times, I said, " let's do it over" Finally got a message on there, but it doesn't sound like me. I sound like a hard boiled intensive care nurse. (You called, I'm not here, leave a message) so intelligent sounding. I had a book with all sorts of messages you can put on your message machine, but my niece borrowed it 4 years ago, haven't seen it since.