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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
The most trouble I EVER got in when we were kids was the time...
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A friend and I decided to prank call some friends. We did it all the time to the girls in junior high and would actually end up having conversations (because they loved the attention and always knew it was us -- harmless stuff like, "Do you have big breasts and meaty thighs? Oh. This isn't Chicken Delight?"). Then we started doing it to our other friends in a different way.
This is back when you could order things C.O.D. All you needed was an address, name and phone number. We ordered one of our friends all sorts of shit. Magazine and paper subscriptions, makeup, toys, etc. We even volunteered him as a sponsor for an African child. Big laughs once we're done with the actual call, but how long does that last?
So we upped the ante by ordering him a limousine. Then, we went down to his house to see the look on his face when it arrived. This was stupid for a number of reasons. One, he lived in an apartment, so the best we could have done was to see the limo driver buzz the door and get turned away. Two, the limo company called to confirm.
So, there we were, sitting across the street from his house, down the block, where we thought we couldn't be seen. His dad comes out of the building when it was supposed to arrive, looking for a pair of idiots waiting for the car to come. Pinched!
My mother was fucking furious. I had to quadruple my soup kitchen volunteer efforts (which put a huge crimp in my playing sports time) and also had to listen to our friend's mother go off on us. "Did you think that maybe we would like to order magazine's in the future and now we probably can't?"
I thought it was such a big deal back then. Now, the mother overreacted. Our friend didn't think it was all that funny, but he got over it in like a day.
TM
