something black in my kitchen

this is not about food but about telephone answering messages, & since i've got a phone in my kitchen it qualifies. anyway, i promised to talk about anything on my mind so here it is: i cannot bear to listen to the robot telling me to leave a message after the beep, and then after i'm done i can hang up! really? imagine that. what else would i do? we've had answering machines for years & years & none of us need to be told how to leave a message, & certainly not that we can hang up when we're finished. we know we must speak after the beep & when we're done we hang up. is there anyone who doesn't know that? and what's that garbage about pressing 5 to leave a page number? & other options? who needs other options? it's about leaving a message. right? i believe that interminably long robot message is designed to give extra time to the cell phone company that charges by the second. it drives me crazy listening to it when all i want to do is leave a message. am i the only one?