To the editor: Actually? Valuable area within the Opinion part dedicated to a Gen Xer’s eager for the heyday of prank calls, justified as a method of assuaging the crushing boredom of American teenage life (“The misplaced artwork of prank-calling strangers,” Feb. 10)?
I’m guessing a lot of the confused strangers and the ladies visitor contributor Elana Rabinowitz “didn’t like” might need a considerably much less rosy reminiscence of such irritating and sometimes horrifying nameless calls.
No, on-line bullying wasn’t a factor but, however these “jokes” have been the closest we had. I’m glad they’re gone.
R.C. Worth, Ventura
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To the editor: I couldn’t assist however get a chuckle out of Rabinowitz’s op-ed about teenagers and prank telephone calls again within the day. Means again when, we’d name our academics and ask them in the event that they collected information (my buddy-in-crime and I have been massive band music individuals). Harmless sufficient methinks, in comparison with at present.
As for Jenny’s quantity, 867-5309, that introduced again recollections of a 1962 hit music with a telephone quantity: “Beechwood 4-5789.” And let’s not overlook that well-known Glenn Miller tune “Pennsylvania 6-5000.”
Alan Rosenstein, Santa Monica
