"Peter still uses an answering machine?" He can't afford voice mail?
I've always wondered why anyone would bother paying for voice mail if they could just get an answering machine. I mean they pay for themselves in a few months, mostly they're built into phones now anyway, you can screen calls if you're so inclined, and you don't have to do any dialing to hear your messages -- you just press "play."
I mean, sure, if it were a tape-based machine, that'd be retro.