I'm old enough to remember running into the house from outside to pick up the phone before it stopped ringing, then having no idea who it was when I just misse

I'm old enough to remember running into the house from outside to pick up the phone before it stopped ringing, then having no idea who it was when I just missed the phone (since we had no answering machine or caller ID). That was not a feature that I would call "working well". But now I have at least 5 ways to contact me that don't involve making my phone ring and interrupting whatever I'm doing to look at the phone and see if it's someone important enough to stop what I'm doing to talk to them. There are very few people that I actually want to receive calls from and I almost never answer the phone.