"Tony" wrote in message
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Nonny wrote:
My earlier post about the leaking faucet reminded me of a prank
my kids pulled on my wife many, many years back. Perhaps it'll
inspire you to have some fun as well. Back then, our kitchen
sink had a typical faucet, with a separate dish sprayer. My
kids decided to place rubber bands around the thumb lever of
the dish sprayer, so that it was continually on. When placed
in the sink opening, it was almost impossible to notice the
rubber bands.

The next morning, Mrs. Nonny went to the sink to fill the
coffee maker, fliping on the cold water. Rather than running
out the faucet, the water sprayed horizontally from the dish
sprayer, hitting her in the face and chest. It was not
something she expected or appreciated. Of course, both kids
were grounded. . . and that lasted about 30 seconds.

My oldest brothers alarm clock was set to a radio station and at
full volume. He would take 5 minutes to actually shut it off or
hit the sleep button. One morning I took my FM mike, tuned it
to his favorite radio station, and clipped the antenna to the
plumbing. Like normal his radio was blasting away and between
commercials I turned on the FM mike. Then talking like they did
on FM in the 80's, soft, smooth and mellow, I picked todays
$1000 winner. Yes it was my brother. I ran the phone number
passed real fast. I heard all kinds of noise and banging around
from his bedroom. When he told us what happened and I explained
my role, besides being ****ed off, he said he got up and in his
confusion ran into a brick wall looking for a pen to write down
the phone number. ;-) 35 years later he still tells people that
story, and well I suppose I do also.

Imagine a small country town with a local radio station. At Noon
each day, the announcer would dial a number and ask a Noon Time
Quiz question to some random soul. The prize was usually a $5
gift certificate etc. My buddy's father had a law practice over a
store on the town square and the window overlooked a telephone
booth. My buddy and I hung around the office until the father
left for lunch, then commandeered the window and his telephone.
Around Noon, we waited until some poor, dumb-looking, soul would
be near the phone booth, then make our own Noon Time Quiz call to
the pay phone. The victim answered, as we had hoped. I asked
some really easy question and the target would hopefully give the
correct answer. Regardless, he would WIN and WIN BIG.

The prize was a 15 minute shopping spree at the grocery store
across the squa and A&P. The directions were simple. When he
hung up the telephone, the 15 minute shopping spree would begin.
He was to run across the town square and directly into the grocery
store. He was to shout out to all that he'd just won the Noon
Time Quiz. He had the remaining time to fill as many baskets as
he could with groceries and all the groceries that he could get
out the front door and onto the sidewalk by the time his 15
minutes had expired were his to keep. If someone tried to stop
him, he should just tell them he'd won the Noon Time Quiz.

We then sat in the window watching as some poor soul would go
running across the square, shouting out that he'd won. He'd then
race into the grocery store and people would start to gather
outside. Within 5-10 minutes, the police would arrive, usually
after the first of several carts full of meat and produce would be
pushed out the door to the sidewalk.

OB repair: when the person finished, there was a need to repair
the screen door on the grocery store.


--
Nonny
On most days,
it's just not worth
the effort of chewing
through the restraints..