I actually did get a shock from being on the phone during a storm when I was a teenager. My mom would give me crap about being on the phone during a storm and I ignored her because “You might get struck by lightening while on the phone” seemed pretty stupid. (Sorry, Mom.) Of course, then I pretty much got struck by lightening while on the phone. (You were right, Mom.) Lightening either hit the house or the ground very near the house and traveled along the phone line and exploded out the receiver I was holding against my ear (a white princess phone in my bedroom.) It was severe enough that my parent’s called the fire department who came out and checked my wrists looking for an exit point for the lightening. I still talk on the phone during storms though. I’m a slow learner, apparently.

My dad managed to de-condition me of that, and now I relish thunderstorms. The one we just experienced was a doozy!