“62 Ingenious Loopholes: Unlocking Secrets That Will Leave You Scratching Your Head!”
ISPs and cable companies love to sign you up by offering new subscriber deals. problem is the rate ends after a time and you are paying a higher rate. and you are usually under contract so it costs you to get out of it…unless you move out of their service area.
So in college between years my roommates and i would systematically cancel our contracts saying we were moving, then another roommate called and started service under his name. we got the discount rates for 4 straight yearsw.
It was in Navy boot camp, and if you’ve ever been through boot camp you know that speaking during meals is forbidden. Not even a whisper.
Then service week arrived and the chain of command ordered me to work the mess hall. The job was to pass out cups at the beverage section in order to move the line as fast as possible.
Being on service week, I was permitted to talk. Used that loophole to smile and give each recruit their cup by name. “Here you go, Miller.” Read the names off their uniforms. It was the only time all day that somebody treated them like a human being.
The smiles of gratitude were priceless.
I was a bike messenger in the early 90’s and learned 2 calling tricks. The first one was a red boxing it’s a noise simulator that you could buy at radio shack that could replicate the noise you hear in your ear for each coin you drop in a payphone. You would hold this little gadget to the mouthpiece and every time you pushed it the coin noise would be accepted as credit toward your call.
The second is that ATM machines used to have phones on them to contact a bank rep with problems. If you lifted the receiver and tapped the hookswitch to mimic a rotary phone (think of morse code) 2 = tap tap space.. you get it. You could make free calls all day, even internationally, a roommate of mine abused this at the same machine every night talking to his girlfriend overseas. He didn’t have the smarts to acknowledge the 3 cameras recording him and was arrested.
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