El Rushbo used to recount the prank phone calls he and his brother made.
We actually prank called our state senator who was also a lawyer. We gave him some crazy story about how we were in legal trouble and couldn’t afford a lawyer instead of just blowing us off he was very very nice and solicitous and said he wanted to help us. We of course hung up immediately and felt really bad because he was so nice.
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.
“Do you have Prince Albert in a can?”
“Yes”
“Well, let him out!”