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                INTERESTING THINGS TO DO ON STEP LINE 

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   If you have STEP lines in your prefix, (a good way of checking to
see if you have STEP is to look at the payphones around your house,
if they are rotary, then you have STEP, if not, your out of luck!)
from your house dial '0' (this will not work at a payphone). You will
hear a few 'kerplunks'. If you hit the hook switch when the
second-to-the-last 'kerplunk' is heard, then the operator will get on
and be very confused. Say that you are trying to complete a call when
she got on. She will ask for the number you are trying to call. Tell
her the number (long distance of course), and she will ask you for
YOUR number. Pick a number out of your head (in the same prefix
though), and tell her it. She will believe you and connect you with
the charges charged to the number you said. If you didn't hit the
switch at the correct time, just tell the operator your sorry, you
were trying to dust the phone or some other BS like that.

   What you did was screw up the automatic number find that was built
into the first STEP lines. This is what would tell the operator your
number so she could bill you if she had to complete a call for you.
The operator will get some garbage on her screen that is supposed to
be your number, but since you interrupted that process, it looks
really bizzare.

   What is really phun to do is complain to the operator that this is
the third time today that you have not been able to get through and
she will give you some sob story about 'We're sorry, but we've had a
computer malfunction and it is being fixed right now'.

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