----------------------------------- INTERSTING THINGS TO DO ON STEP LINES =================================== If you have STEP lines in your prefix, (A good way of checking to see if you have STEP is to look at the payphones around your house, if they are rotary, then you have STEP, if not, your outta luck.) From your house dial "0", (This will not work at a payphone). You will hear a few "Kerplunks", if you hit the hang up button when the second-to-the-last "Kerplunk" is heard then the operator will get on and be very confused. (I will tell why she is confused in just a second, but for now just....) Say that you are trying to complete a call when she got on. She will ask for the number you are trying to call. Tell her the number (Long distance ofcourse), and she will ask you for YOUR number, pick a number out of your head, (It must be in your prefix though), and tell her it. She will believe you and will connect you with the charges charged to the number you said. (If you didn't hit the button at the correct timejust tell the operator your sorry, you were trying to dust the phone or some other bullshit like that.) What you did was screw up the automatic number find that was built into the first step lines. This is what would tell the operator you number so she could bill you if she had to complete a call for you. The operator will get some garbage on her screen that is suposed to be your number, but since you interupted that proccess, it looks really bizzare. What is really phun to do is complain to the operator that this is the third time today that you have not been able to get through and she will give you some sob story about "We're sorry, but we've had a computer malfunction and it is being fixed right now". I kinda sure that the phone company knows nothing of this. The worst thing that could happen is you get a call asking why you've hung up on the operator so many times, (If you did this alot, that is). Just give them some bullshit about a baby brother just learning how to use the phone, ot something like that. Live long and don't get caught, Agrajag =================================== Brought to you by: Agrajag and -=%> The Hitchhikers <%=- Bring your towel -----------------------------------