PSA: I used my 1990s answering machine wrong for 15 years

I still have my old Panasonic answering machine from 1998 sitting on my nightstand. Last week I found the manual at a thrift store for 50 cents and realized I had the volume knob set to 'low' the entire time. All those missed messages, people telling me they called and I never got the voicemail. I always thought the machine was just bad at picking up quiet voices. Has anyone else discovered they were using an old gadget completely wrong after all these years?

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allen.quinn27d ago

Oh man, that really hurts. I feel for you.

harper_wells27d ago

Fifty cents for a manual is honestly a steal, but I gotta say - you probably didn't miss that many messages. Those old Panasonic machines still recorded calls even with the volume down low, the LED just wouldn't blink. You might've had a full tape this whole time.