22nd January 2008 :: I know where you live

“Come on man. Let's call Natasha”
The boy tells his friend and dials a number that is answered by a man.
“It's her dad man!”
“Quick. Hang up. Hang up.”
The boy hung up with the old man fuming on the other side of the line “These bastards, they keep calling all odd hours and just hang up. Natasha I am telling you if these phone calls don't stop you will stop going to college.”
At the end of the month the boy's father is shocked to see the telephone bill. “What? I can't believe this! How can anyone possibly make so many phone calls?” The boy quietly passes the blame on his mom telling how she has been calling her friends all day and that is the end of the story. I mean the dad, in his right mind, won't confront the mom.

Consider it now. The concept of calling up the girl and hanging up when the phone is answered by the parents or asking for someone randomly and saying “wrong number” before hanging up has just disappeared after the callers ID and the itemized billing. These kids don't know what they are missing... I guess they don't care either.