Many years ago, our company hooked us up with one of the PBS stations in L.A. (KLCS?) and arranged for employee volunteers to answer phones during one of the station’s telethon airings. The host that night was a sitcom actor who I knew nothing about then and still don’t now; so not into sitcoms. She was Asian, young, pretty, and perky; upon being told our company name, she proceeded to have fun with it and yelled, “Boing-boing me!” WTH!. Once our telethon segment started she was all business, then calls began to come in. Earlier we had been warned that crank and obscene calls were to be expected; we were advised to quickly hang up on them. Almost everyone in our dozen or so group got such calls. I got only one, a creep who called to discuss our host’s looks… “ugly”, he said. Partway into his spiel I told him I could see his phone number on my station phone and that I would… then he hung up. Our station phones did not have caller ID then. Others in our group received similar calls. Interesting night.
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