[21twelve]

As a child (2rd grade??) I thought it would be great to order a bunch of stuff out of the SEARS catalog. I picked out a WHOLE bunch of stuff (I recall a football in there) and called the phone number.

In my deepest “Dad Voice” that I could muster I gave the lady all of the numbers that I had circled. I don’t recall much after that. Perhaps I just said “Put it on my account” using my dad’s name.

I don’t recall getting in trouble over it. Maybe I did.

I DO know that I never got any of it!

[beaversmom]

You were bold and crafty.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I’m guessing they could tell your were faking it, or they verified it with Dad. Probably better than most companies would do.

[FatherofFive]

As a child (2rd grade??) I thought it would be great to order a bunch of stuff out of the SEARS catalog.

Sears was the Amazon before Amazon. But they abandoned the catalog. No vision.

[Tellurian]

My 3rd grade friend and I were in between prank calls, on an old dial type phone, desperately hanging up on one of the calls (I don't recall why) by frantically pushing on the pins that the handset would normally depress. What this did, unknown to us, was set up our next call to be long distance, just as if we had dialed 1 2 1 3 before a regular 7 digit number.

The nice lady from Pasadena talked to us for a good 10 or 15 minutes before she finally begged off. My friend's parents were none too happy about the long distance bill! Back then it wasn't cheap to make non-local calls - it would cost about an hour's wage just to talk to someone in the next county for 3 minutes.