Great Telephone Pranks-1

Are Your Telephone Lines Dirty?

Chris Berry
I had a sister who was pretty gullible. In fact she was so gullible that I regularly found occasion to mess with her mind. The funny thing about it was she wasn't stupid. She was a college graduate and although she was "book smart" she was basically naïve in the ways of the world.

One morning I called her house and when she answered in a sleepy voice I couldn't help myself and I guess my evil twin came forth. I disguised my voice somewhat and told her that I was calling from Pacific Bell and that we were doing work in the area. I said that we would be blowing all of the dust out of the telephone lines and that the reason I was calling was I didn't want to get her house dirty. I asked her if she could please tie a plastic bag over her phone to catch the dirt. I then told her that I would call back in about twenty minutes when we were all done.

Twenty minutes later when I called back she answered the phone all out of breath. I told her that we were all done and asked if she had indeed tied the bag over the phone. She stated that she had been frantically searching for a bag but couldn't find one so she had run to the back door and was holding the phone out the door.

I was going to let her in on the gag but she sounded so earnest that I didn't have the heart and I think she still believes to this day that she was able to keep her house from getting dirtied by those Pacific Bell people.

Published by Chris Berry

Chris is a writer, songwriter, and recording artist with Retrofit Records who lives in N/W Arizona with his wife, step son, grandson, 2 cats, 2 dogs, a horse, some chickens and one bad ass rooster. He writes...  View profile

  • Telephone pranks can be great fun.
  • Gullible people are the best targets.
  • Don't believe everything you hear on the telephone.
Telephone pranks are played every day on unsuspecting victims. So far no one has been killed over them, (I hope).

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  • Lori Borys11/20/2006

    I want to do this to someone but she only has a cell phone now... too bad .... she's pretty dumb. She'd probably call me to tell me about it.

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