Because they're just like telephones, except that they don't have call waiting, voice mail, or any of the other things that actually make telephones tolerable.

I've been trying, since yesterday afternoon, to fax something to the Reg Office at Xavier (I need a transcript, and the cold breath of submission deadline has begun creeping up my spine), and I haven't been able to do it. Why? Because it's a Reg Office, and so understandably the fax is busy, *all the time,* and when fax machines get a busy signal, they drop the call.

Why I can't just scan it into PDF and e-mail it, I have NO IDEA.

Okay, yes, I do. I work in a Reg Office as well. Many, many students are lying little assholes. That makes it no less fucking annoying when met up with the real world.

*panics slightly*