Remember the good ol’ days before caller ID and before everyone had a cell phone? We all had landlines with a 20ft cord that left a trail to whomever was hogging the family phone. If your older sister wasn’t clogging up the line with gossipy phone calls, your landline phone was likely sitting on its little holster, waiting to harbor wayward answering machine messages from your neighborhood friends. Oh, what a peaceful time.

However, for the guy in our next story, peace was not an option when his landline was ringing off the hook. When a local Chinese restaurant mistakenly listed his family phone number as their takeaway line, chaos ensued and the orders came flying in. Unluckily for the Chinese restaurant, this dutiful dad wasn’t going to go down without a fight. To restore his family phone’s inner peace, he fought fire with fire, dousing the Chinese restaurant’s already shaky reputation in a duck sauce dripping with petty revenge.