Could make crank calls

still use ditch/obama phones to crank/prank ..

 

When I was in college I worked for Circuit City. We had insane refund policies, basically anything that could be dragged in was good for cash, receipt or not. Dealing with this cut into sales time and cost me and my coworkers money. Then to we also had customers who wasted our time by being absolute dicks during a sale. So I started keeping track of the assholes. At first I was only looking for people who were getting systematic refunds (some people made a living, on refunds).

But it morphed into a 3X5 card box full of assholes. Filling out the cards actually improved morale among the sales staff. Because they knew what was in store for the assholes.

See, I'd get roaring drunk, then drive to a pay phone ( yea yea, I know, but.....) and call some of the assholes, at 2AM. Naturally I didn't identify myself and I sure didn't let them know I was from CC. I figured if they were doing their shit to us, they were likely all over town tormenting retailers, Jerks are gonna jerk.

I gave these assholes hell, repeatedly, especially when they threatened me (death threats were like music to my ears). Only 1 time did a "customer" claim to recognize my voice, which I denied vehemently. You'd be amazed how much stress melts away when you give a proven asshole their just desserts. Even anonymously.

I've outgrown this shit of course. But it was great therapy during slow sales periods!

 

I have a fantasy of repeatedly calling Delilah and saying, "Delilah, I have a question for you. Why are you so gosh darn sexy?" and then hanging up. I don't think her show works like that, though.

 

I suppose if you dial 1167 to make ones # "Private" you still can.... (I dunno)

 

Back in high school I’d get really stoned with my buddies and use a Howard Stern soundboard to prank call people.

One time we called our school and the fat/bitchy secretary that everyone hated answered the phone. We quickly hung up, then she called back. We answered with “Hi, you’re on the air.” For a moment we thought she actually believed she was on the Howard Stern show. We just asked a bunch of sexual questions, then hung up and howled.

Come to think of it, that’s still hilarious.

 

My friend and I used to call random numbers and ask for random people...i have no clue why that was entertaining. But one time we called someone and asked for Betty. An elderly lady answered and said "Betty? Betty's been dead a long time"
and started crying.

So that put an end to that

 

I like texting random # This Sgt Allco with the United States Marine Corps.. Would you like to join our beloved Corps?..

Apparently a person I texted had played this game before.. SEND NUDES

 

I called a bar once and said, "Do you have pop in the freezer?" And then I said, "Well you better let him out. It's cold in there."

 

crank calls nothing. in my day we could make confrence calls just by picking up the phone, back when most rural phone service was what was called party lines.

 

Hehe I cant believe a bar would fall for that!

 

come to think of it, the phone did have a crank on the side, along with a couple of big dry cells in a wooden box that hung on the wall.

the crank on the side was how you dialed our number, which was two shorts and a long.

 

Hi. This is your friendly neighborhood sewer company. We've had just about enough sh!t out of you.

 

some of us still don't have caller i.d. we just leave the ringer turned off.
if someone needs to message me then can use e-mail.

 

i remember when you could make crank calls on a phone that actually used a crank.
(the crank was on the side, and it was a big wooden box that hung on the wall with a couple of giant single cell batteries inside,
and an actual pair of bells were on the outside of it too. the ear piece hung on the hanger upper and the microphone was attached to the front of it.)

(yes this particular technology was already obsolete at the time, but it was a kind of alternative phone system the company had beside the regular
dial phone, in this railroad company town on the top of donner summit where i was living at the time)

 

Now I'm older than most of you but I remember one that was over-used. You called a retail store and asked, "Do you have Prince Albert in a can?". It was a tobacco product that most stores carried. Whey they answered, "yes", you responded with, "well, you better let him out."

Now the best one fooled me. I was night manager of a restaurant. We had a student in my high school and his name was Don Oeff (pronounced 'off'). At a really busy time someone called and asked if Don's brother, Jack, was there. I, stupidly, paged him on the loud speaker.

 

Funny stuff.
Some people still send me their own disgusting farts as a prank call.
Reminds me of the sims video game

 

One of my ex-girlfriend's boyfriend used to call me, not say anything and then burp real loud and hang up.
The next time he called I said I know who the hell this is, go find another hobby before I find you.
What a loser.

 

I worked for a 24 hour movie rental store in late 90s...also had a large adult back room.
I got so many prank call at that place it started getting old. A typical call was some 10 year old kid with his friends giggling in the back ground....

Q: hi, uh, hey do you have any ninja turtle porn... friends snickering in the back ground.

A: no, but Muffy the vampire layer is a new release this week. We also have the idiots guide to fucking yourself, that one might interest you.

the kids who called, then laugh a couple seconds and hang up .

----
btw.. muffy the vampire layer is a real one...

 

Ah man!!

 

The last time I did a prank call was my freshman year of college when our dorms were required to have land line phones (which was also the last year of that requirement).

I would call my friend's dorm rooms with the Arnold Schwarzenegger sound board Arnold Schwarzenegger Soundboard | Peal - Create Your Own Soundboards!

We got a major kick out of doing it for sure.