Actually, to be honest, the absentee line at the grade school used to drive me nuts. To call in that your child would be gone for the day, you had to dial a number and then listen to a lengthy message explaining exactly what to say first in English, then in Spanish.

I have too much ADD to listen to a message twice that I didn’t want to listen to once, and no, they had no “press a button and skip to the end” part.