My kid is accidently hilarious

Yesterday, while I was on my way home from work, he was supposed to be getting ready for karate. He was having trouble finding all of the parts of the uniform though, so his mom told him to call me and ask me where it was. This is the phone conversation from her perspective. (Picture this coming from an 8 year old.)

*dials*
"Hi Dad. Have you seen my jock strap?"
"Have you seen my jock strap?"
"It's me dad! Your son."
"Dad?"
"Mom, I think that was the wrong number."

Anyway, this is hysterical to me, because I keep picturing what the guy on the other side of the call must have been thinking. It's got to seem pretty random for an 8 year old to call up asking for his jock strap.

I love random humor.

This reminded me of a game I made up years ago. Back in the late 90's and early 00's I used to play Yahoo! games a lot.

*sings Yahooooooooo*

*Ahem*

Anyway, one day I was in one of the spades rooms, trying to get a game going. For those who haven't been to yahoo games, there was a list on the screen of people logged into the virtual room at the time, and you can double click on their name to open a dialog window. Then you just send them a friendly message asking if they are interesting in playing at your table.

An annoying feature at the time though, was that when somebody messaged you like this, the window that popped up took precedent over any other windows you had open at the time. So if you were typing something, the text would go into this new window, and if you weren't looking, you would send that text as a reply when you hit enter.

To make matters worse, the window would then close, and you'd have no idea who you just sent a message to.

If you think about it, this is a system that is just begging for abuse.

I hate to disappoint.

So one day, I was trying to get a card game going, and I sent somebody an invite message. I got a response almost immediately.

me: "I'm starting a game on table 6. Would you like to join?"
her: "I'm kissing your manly chest."
me: "Thanks!"

...and a new game was born that was more fun than spades ever was. The trick was to try to message people, and see if you could get a random response that was meant for somebody else. I quickly learned two things.

People on yahoo love to have cyber sex.
People get really panicked when they send an erotic message to the wrong person.

You would think that catching part of a juicy conversation would be difficult, but it was, in fact, surprisingly easy. I haven't been to yahoo games in quite a few years. I wonder if this game still works.