I am “prank call” years old, in the history of global telecom. Which is to belong to an era, when juvenile delinquents often gathered around landline phones, without caller-IDs, with rotary or digital dials, calling up random numbers, to prank the shit outta unknown people, for ‘timepass’ as pastime, in the evenings!

Our standard operating procedure was to dial any six/seven-digit number. Say, “Hello”, in a hoarse/muffled voice. Upon hearing the man of the house on the other line, we’d go, “Hum ‘XYZ Gigolo Service’ se bol rahe hain. Your wife hasn’t cleared our bills for months. Make good on the payment, or else…”