I wish I could say I'm embarassed by this, but actually it's one of my favorite memories. For some reason, our city had party lines for a few years - and my buddies and I could listen in on some interesting conversations. We had a couple of older ladies who talked on the phone a lot, so we put a tape recorder up to the receiver and recorded a few seconds of their talking, then would suddenly play back their own voices to them. They'd get spastic, wondering what was happening and their reactions were priceless...you'd think people from outer space had invaded or something. Other times we would make hilarious sound effects into the phone while they were talking, so each caller would think the other was having stomach trouble. We also had a family on our party line with a teenage girl who had a huge crush on my older brother. She lived several miles from our neighborhood and of course had no idea that her gossip with other teen girls (often about my brother) was being listened to by me and one of my friends. And right in the middle of their chit-chat, we'd interrupt and tell them my brother didn't even like them. This girl would bawl me out and claim I didn't even know the boy she was talking about! Fun times......look, if you lived in the same dull city in Indiana that I did in those days, you'd understand why this type of thing qualified as entertainment.