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- From: jallen@jarthur.claremont.edu (Jeff R. Allen)
- Subject: Re: Elevator shenanigan
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.061627.17966@muddcs.claremont.edu>
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- Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 06:16:27 GMT
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- Yet another elevator shenanigan was perpetrated here at Mudd recently.
- The gist of it is that normal-honest to goodness campus phones are mounted
- in very accessible places in the elevators for use as emergency phones.
- They have extensions of their own, however, so it is possible to call the
- elevator.
-
- At this point, one's imagination may take over and come up with various
- possible pranks. The one I pulled went something like this:
-
- Me: <Dial... Ring, ring, ring.>
- Her: <Giggle> Hello. This is the library elevator.
- Me: May I speak to Ken?
- Her: Umm, this is the elevator phone. I'm the only one in here. Did you mean
- call the desk?
- Me: No, he said that he'd wait for my call here if the desk phone was busy.
- Listen, he's working on the third floor, could you go there and ask
- for him?
- Her: Umm, sure. <Elevator humming, doors open, faint call for Ken>
- He's not here.
- Me: <Stiffling giggles> Well, thank you very much...
- Her: ...Let me check the second floor, there's a phone there.
- Me: <Rally stiffling giggles, not succeeding> OK.
- Her: <Elevator sounds. Door opens. Faint call for Ken> No, not here.
- Me: Well, thank you ver much for your time. I'll call back later.
-
- Whoever said that strangers can't be courtious anymore hasn't met this
- lady!
-
- The next one, in the works, is to pose as a campus services (maintenence)
- person and ask the person to verify that when going from 5 to 4 the elevator
- makes strange squeaking noises and occasionally stops. Should be fun.
-
- As always, no harm done, but really fun, hopefully even for those involved on
- the other end too. :)
-
- --
- Jeff Allen / Surrealistically speaking:
- Sophomore, Harvey Mudd College \ "Fish, spoon. Man pan ran.
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- (jallen@jarthur.claremont.edu) \ Thoughts of Bubbles of Thoughts."
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