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(COOLLIST) Attack of the 13-year old girls

Well, my show aired last night at 11:30... prime time for ACTV
apparently.  Just as soon as it was over, I got a phone call.  It was
a 17-year old girl from Houston, up visiting Austin, who saw the end
of the show and wanted to know more about it.  The call was cool, we
ended up talking about MST3K: The Movie, the Kids in the Hall, and
telephone hacking.  Well, she had to go, so that conversation ended.

A few moments later, the attack of the 13-year old girls starts.

This girl, possibly named Lisa, calls up and starts asking lots of
questions.  She wants me to defame two of her friends on the air.  She
wonders where the show is taped.  She wants me to put her and her
friends on a show.  She asks me what the point of the show is.  She
does give some good feedback, as she also saw the January episode
("Prototype"), and she liked that one too.  Then things start getting
silly.  I don't want to be rude, so I go into deadpan mode, answering
her questions factually but with little elaboration.  She gets her
sister and a friend there to serenade me with the theme from the TV
show "Reading Rainbow".  I finally get them off the phone so I could
get to sleep about 12:30.

Then, the calls started.

It was obviously them.  One had gotten out a beginning French primer,
called me, and started with a French phrase (I can't remember what).
Well, I shocked them back by answering in French, resulting in a "Oh
my God!" and a hangup.

I get another couple of these short prank calls, including one where
Lisa tries to get me to call up and go out with a 13-year old "friend"
of hers.

I will have the last laugh, though.  After about three of those, I
turned off the ringer on the phone and let the answering machine take
over.  They ended up leaving five different messages, some with a few
funny remarks.  Well, I have them on cassette now.  With a little
editing, they will become the closing theme for my next episode.
Especially their rendition of "The Song That Never Ends".

Oh, one aside.  At the Austin Flea Market yesterday, I saw a booth
selling pinatas.  One of them was a Barney pinata.  The image of a
group of children trying to break Barney open with a stick warms my
heart.

-- 
Benjamin L. Combee (combee@techwood.org) <URL:http://www.yak.net/combee/>
that public-access-TV-making, video-game-collecting, cryptography-pushing,
World-Wide-Web-explaining, fem-music-loving, bad-pun-creating guy in Austin
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