Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gen X and millennials spent many after-school hours flipping through the phone book and randomly dialing neighbors. (Marco Di ...

Commentary: My level of telephone mayhem never reached heights of cruelty, but the endless hours of making or receiving prank calls in those pre-internet days became my coming-of-age story.

Some people don’t understand the meaning of “wrong number.” When a persistent stranger kept calling and professing his love, one woman tried to handle it politely at first. But after a few unwanted ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A recent op-ed looked back fondly on the Gen X and millennial art of prank-calling strangers. (Marco Di Lauro / Getty Images) To ...

Do you remember what it was like to be bored -- like really bored? As a Gen Xer, I didn't grow up scrolling social media or playing endless hours of "Minecraft" to keep me busy; instead, I spent a ...

I was careful not to call too often, but the idea that from the confines of my doll-house-decorated bedroom, sitting on my princess canopy bed, I could maybe hear the breath of my teenage obsession ...