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What Part of “Don’t Bury the Lead” Don’t You Understand?
When leaving a voicemail message, many people will speed up while giving the all-important phone number — at the precise time when they should slow down. So someone says "nineseventhreefiveohfiveonetwoonetwo" as fast as they can, and you have to listen to the message twice, or even three times, to capture the number. What they should say is "nine seven three"… [pause] "five oh five"… [pause] "one two, one two".