'I read the book and I'm still gay': Man recalls how he accidentally came out to his ultra conservative college roommates via voicemail from the bookstore

The 90's was such a wild time. Everyone had an answering machine and voicemails were recorded then straight up broadcast in your home, spouting your business out loud to everyone within earshot and that was just a normal, accepted thing. An answering machine wouldn't be a problem if you lived alone, but the moment you live with other people, you share your voicemail (on your land line of course). There's no privacy there. One man, who lived in a big house of dudes when he was a college freshman in the 90's, embarrassingly faced the public humiliations at the hands of an answering machine in the absolute worst way. Hilariously, his story is a lot like a sitcom spoof of an embarrassing nightmare, but it unfortunately happened to him in real life.