415-867-5309. ..hey, wait a second

So it's just another lazy day at the Pleasure Dome - our squalid apartment above a gay strip club in Chicago. Along came an opportunity for a Sting..you know, like the movie with Redford and Newman. Plus a little help from our pal Tommy Tutone.

THE SET-UP...

My three roommates and I are goofing around. But one roommate, Frankie was getting really irritating. He was constantly checking his pager for a page from some girl he was obssessed with. He was literally spending hours on the phone with her each night.

THE HOOK...

She lived in San Francisco so his phone bill was huge. It was back in the day of land lines. So we felt obligated to make a pie chart of the total bill for the past month (over $500) of which Frankie's pie was nearly the entire pie (about $460)...which was, of course, the whole reason to make a pie chart - it highlighted how ridiculous it was, it was all Frankie. Then we proudly displayed the pretty much singularly colored pie chart squarely on his bedroom door. It bugged the sh*t out of Frankie and everytime he tore the chart off his door, we posted a new one.

THE TALE...

About every 15 minutes Frankie would look at his pager to see if the girl paged him. She didn't have a phone in her place, so she'd have him call her at various numbers by leaving the number as a page. Well...enough was enough. We got pretty sick of it, so one of us snuck off to page Frankie with...you guessed it "(415) 867-5309". We wanted to see how long it would take him to figure it out.

THE STING...

So Frankie gets the page and immediately goes into his room to start dialing it on the land line...we all rush to listen outside the door. He sees the number on his pager, then starts to dial it. He dials it all the way through and waits to hear his girl pick up...wrong number....what? We're peeing our pants. He dials it again, but says it out loud to make sure he's doing it right. He almost gets through saying it when he hears us choking ourselves trying not to laugh.

Real slow...it went something like:

"415 - 8 - 6 - 7 - 5 - 3 - 0 - 9...hey, wait a second...you f*ckers"

IT WAS PRICELESS!

Rock out to the video here