A couple of weeks ago Flurrious wrote a post about receiving an obscene phone call. I told her I was going to totally steal her idea and write my own post about the same thing. Then I got sidetracked and took a 15 day blog break and never wrote my post. Naturally that means I received a prank call last week. Kid you not. It was a kid and he was talking super fast and sounded like he had marbles in his mouth so I couldn't even understand everything he was saying so sadly, I cannot relay to you what he was saying to me. I hung up on him and he never called back. Then last week I started receiving A LOT of calls from someone who blocked their number. They called at all hours of the day and night and I never would answer because if you don't have the guts to call me without blocking your number from my caller ID, I have no obligation to answer when you call. But then I got completely sick and tired of it. They would call at 7:30 a.m. They would call at 9:45 p.m. They would call at all hours in between (according to my caller ID log). It went on for days and days so I finally answered the phone on Sunday morning. Of course as soon as I answered they hung up on me, but thankfully it seems they have ceased calling my number.
Between the post Flurrious wrote and my own weird phone calls over the past couple of weeks, it made me think back to one of the funniest prank calls I ever received.
This phone call happened in approximately 1987 or 1988. You might wonder how I remember the year since it's been over 20 years which is a long time to remember a prank call, right? I remember the year because it happened when I worked for a furniture company. It happened when I was working in the office of the store in Snellville, Georgia (where I grew up). And I started working there in 1987 and I was in that office until 1988 when I transferred with the company to the store in Athens, Georgia where I went to college.
The furniture company I worked for had somewhere close to 80 stores all over the South and Midwest. Once or twice a year, we had a bedding contest to see who could sell the most mattresses and boxsprings company-wide. The top selling salespeople would receive cruises, etc. I was not a salesperson - I worked in the office and we had to answer every phone call that came into our store. During the bedding contests, we were required to answer the phone by saying, "Thank you for calling [furniture company name], your World Bedding Headquarters. How may I help you?"
One day I was working along with 2 or 3 other people in the office. So it's kind of funny that of 3 or 4 people, I was the one who answered a particular call that came in. I did my World Bedding Headquarters spiel, and I heard a young girl ask in return, "Hi, my friend and I are selling Dr. Pepper - would you like to buy some?" and then she promptly hung up. About 15 seconds later the phone rang again and I answered it again. I was once again asked if I wanted to buy some Dr. Pepper. I replied with a simple, "who is this?" For a split second there was complete silence from the other end. Then I heard the little girl say to someone with her "Kelly, I think we called the Army or something. She said it's the Headquarters." She then asked me really quickly again if I wanted some Dr. Pepper and hung up.
I got home that night after work and at some point, my mom was talking to my aunt. I told my mom I wanted to talk to her daughter (my cousin) before they hung up. I got on the phone with my cousin who was around 8 or 9 years old at the time and I asked her if she and her next door neighbor, Kelly, were making prank calls earlier in the day. There was total silence on the other end. She finally asked in almost a whisper, "how did you know?". I told her that someone told me she had called the Army Headquarters. Again, there was complete silence. She sounded terrified when she replied with a simple, "how did you know that?" Then I told her she had actually called the office where I worked, I explained how I had to answer the phone and I began laughing so hard I could barely breathe. Needless to say, she was quite relieved to find out she had not, in fact, prank called the "Army Headquarters". She swore she would never make prank calls again as long as she lived because she had been scared all afternoon that the Army was going to come and get her. But most of all, she begged me not to tell her mom and dad. Of course I did, but I waited a number of years so she wouldn't get in trouble. And call it fate if you want to, but she is currently engaged to a guy I've never seen drink anything other than Dr. Pepper.
Between the post Flurrious wrote and my own weird phone calls over the past couple of weeks, it made me think back to one of the funniest prank calls I ever received.
This phone call happened in approximately 1987 or 1988. You might wonder how I remember the year since it's been over 20 years which is a long time to remember a prank call, right? I remember the year because it happened when I worked for a furniture company. It happened when I was working in the office of the store in Snellville, Georgia (where I grew up). And I started working there in 1987 and I was in that office until 1988 when I transferred with the company to the store in Athens, Georgia where I went to college.
The furniture company I worked for had somewhere close to 80 stores all over the South and Midwest. Once or twice a year, we had a bedding contest to see who could sell the most mattresses and boxsprings company-wide. The top selling salespeople would receive cruises, etc. I was not a salesperson - I worked in the office and we had to answer every phone call that came into our store. During the bedding contests, we were required to answer the phone by saying, "Thank you for calling [furniture company name], your World Bedding Headquarters. How may I help you?"
One day I was working along with 2 or 3 other people in the office. So it's kind of funny that of 3 or 4 people, I was the one who answered a particular call that came in. I did my World Bedding Headquarters spiel, and I heard a young girl ask in return, "Hi, my friend and I are selling Dr. Pepper - would you like to buy some?" and then she promptly hung up. About 15 seconds later the phone rang again and I answered it again. I was once again asked if I wanted to buy some Dr. Pepper. I replied with a simple, "who is this?" For a split second there was complete silence from the other end. Then I heard the little girl say to someone with her "Kelly, I think we called the Army or something. She said it's the Headquarters." She then asked me really quickly again if I wanted some Dr. Pepper and hung up.
I got home that night after work and at some point, my mom was talking to my aunt. I told my mom I wanted to talk to her daughter (my cousin) before they hung up. I got on the phone with my cousin who was around 8 or 9 years old at the time and I asked her if she and her next door neighbor, Kelly, were making prank calls earlier in the day. There was total silence on the other end. She finally asked in almost a whisper, "how did you know?". I told her that someone told me she had called the Army Headquarters. Again, there was complete silence. She sounded terrified when she replied with a simple, "how did you know that?" Then I told her she had actually called the office where I worked, I explained how I had to answer the phone and I began laughing so hard I could barely breathe. Needless to say, she was quite relieved to find out she had not, in fact, prank called the "Army Headquarters". She swore she would never make prank calls again as long as she lived because she had been scared all afternoon that the Army was going to come and get her. But most of all, she begged me not to tell her mom and dad. Of course I did, but I waited a number of years so she wouldn't get in trouble. And call it fate if you want to, but she is currently engaged to a guy I've never seen drink anything other than Dr. Pepper.
5 comments:
That is hilarious.
When my nephew was four (I hadn't had my first child yet), I decided to teach him how to make prank calls, and the "refrigerator running" one was the first one we did. I had him call my mother, his grandmother, and I drilled him...wait til she answers, ask if her refrigerator is running, then tell her she'd better run after it. He was so excited...my mother picked up the phone and before she could even speak, my nephew yelled "Hey grandma, your refrigerator is working!" and then he hung up, hysterically laughing, yelling " I got her! I got her"! I had to repeat my training, emphasizing the importance of allowing your victim to answer and the absolute necessity of the word "running". Naturally, my mother called my phone 30 seconds later, yelling "I know that was you, Claire! Who else would teach a four year old to make prank calls? You should be ashamed of yourself!" Ha. Yeah, I was SO ashamed. Ba ha ha!
seconded. ^_^
She accidentally called you? That's hilarious. Or maybe it wasn't a prank and she was just trying to make a few extra dollars selling soda. :-p
"How did you know?" Ha. After that, she probably didn't use the phone at all for a while.
I don't understand the prank though.
"Would you like to buy some Dr. Pepper?"
"No."
"Oh. Okay. Bye, then."
Bwahahahahah! I would be evil enough to have let her think that I was all knowing and that she did in fact reach the Army Headquarters. How funny she dialed your place of work!
That is really funny that the guy she is marrying only drinks DP!!
Fianna and I made a ton of prank calls when we were young, maybe she'll remember what we said. I bet we just hung up.
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