Phone pranks ?

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Q. How many people remember doing phone pranks? My younger brothers and I used to do them all the time, sometimes for hours. One of our favorites was to call someone up and tell them we were from the phone company, and were calling everyone in their area because of a downed transformer, so could they please NOT answer the phone, because the electricity generated by the ringing would electrocute the lineman.

A. Back when I was 12 or 13, my friend and I had a favorite prank we used to play. We'd call up a random number, and when they answered we'd say, "Mom, can you come pick me up now". The caller would say, "You've got the wrong number". Then, we'd start crying and say that we were trying to reach our mother to come pick us up from the movie theatre. We'd say that she told us to call when the movie was over. Then, we'd say that we didn't have any more money for the payphone and asked the victim if they could call our mother for us and tell her to come pick us up. We'd give her a random number. Then, we'd call another number with the same story. Then, we'd give the 2nd victim the phone number for the 1st victim. We thought that was so funny. Sometimes, we'd do it to 10 or 15 people in a sitting. We also used to call random numbers and say, "Your cat is in my garden!" And they usually would say, "I don't have a cat". Then we'd say, "Well, I don't have a garden either". One summer, my friend and I made literally hundreds of prank calls. That's all we did all summer long. There was a small radio station in town and every day at 1 PM, they had a call in show called "Trading Post" where everyone would call up advertising their wares for sale. That was one of our faves. We used to call up saying our name was Jack Meoff, Eileen Dover, Sofonda Peters etc. We had a lot of fun with that. BTW, my friend was a girl. Depending on what mood I'm in, whenever a telemarketer calls, I'll say, "What are you wearing?" That usually catches them off guard. Occasionally, one will bite and tell me what they are wearing, to which I feign excitement and interest. Then, I'll start groaning and moaning and imply that I'm jerking off. They always hang up. Speaking of phone pranks...have any of you guys seen the movie "Joy Ride" yet? Man...you'd think THRICE about making phone pranks after seeing this movie! Oh, Rach...that guy from "Fast and the Furious" (the blondie) is in this movie, and looking better than ever...LOL :)

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