Back in the late 80s, early 90s. I had this one old guy that was a friend of my family by the name of Fred, he got me hooked on computers. He used to tease me with his damn computer. he had found a sound clip of an actual telephone ring. He'll play the sound clip and actually make me get off my butt and answer the phone.
me - "Hello?"
me - "Hello?"
me - looks to Fred, "I can't hear anything on the phone. Take this"
Fred - talks on the phone
me - me look at my hearing aids thinking my hearing aid battery went dead, put in new battery.
Fred - "it's your mom, she wants to talk to you"
me - "Hi, mom! What you doing?"
phone - ..... silence..
Then it hit me that he was teasing me.
Then he starts laughing. I wanted to kick him. LOL