OK, here are a couple of my "funny stories".

More than once the PoCo would drop power when I was working on a job. Once I turn power on for an electric heater and there was none. (A Poco job) Another time in a public library, I told the helper to turn on a breaker, sure enough the Poco did it again. Of course I saw that there were no stop lights and didn't let on to the helper. However the best one was when I went to a job looking for a payment, and half kidding around, I told the boss that if he didn't pay me, I would turn the power back off. Sure enough the Poco came through. Only this time it was a transformer fire down the street on the pole. But I got paid real quick from that time on! LOL