My siblings and I were big on prank phone calls. We’d even make up our own.
To a sporting goods store: “Hi, do you have tennis balls?”
Store: “Yes.”
“I have tennis elbow. That must hurt like hell.”
We’d call people we knew and casually ask to speak to their pets. “Hi, is Caesar there?” That caused fun confusion.
We lived in the DC area as teenagers where the White House was a local call. So was the Watergate. Yeah, we had fun with that.
Kids today will never know the fun we had before *69 and Caller ID.
To the bowling alley:
“Do you have 16 pound balls there?”
“Yes”
“How do you walk?”
One of the popular pranks in college was to leave a note under someone’s door saying “Your Uncle called. Please call back collect. (202) 456-1111.” (That’s the White House switchboard.)
They would call and be told that “the White House does not accept collect telephone calls.”
Then they’d go pull the same prank on five more people.