Or, more precisely, thank Amy Borkowsky's mom, Sue, who for years has been leaving advice—some of it quite dubious—on her daughter's answering machine. Borkowsky, 36, a Manhattan advertising executive and aspiring comedian, has put the highlights on a CD—Amy's Answering Machine—that's winning airplay on radio stations across the country. "My mom drives me crazy," she says. "But I feel very fortunate to have a mother who loves me that much." She wasn't always so grateful. Growing up in Great Neck, N.Y.—her mom and dad, Mel, a printer, are divorced—Borkowsky was often "quietly embarrassed," she admits. "She would come to school with an umbrella, galoshes and a raincoat and wait right outside the door."
Decades later, the advice keeps coming—about everything from cold remedies to sex. "Long-distance rates have gotten too low," says Borkowsky, who has sold 14,000 copies of the CD via her Web site, www.sendamy.com. "It's like giving a mother a license to nag." How does Mom feel about the CD? "She doesn't want me spending too much time maintaining the Web site," says Borkowsky. "She heard radiation from the computer could damage my ovaries."
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