Stop the World - I Want to Tell Someone Off!

Mrs. Gari admits that some of the "scams" she revealed in the book are actually just practical jokes, but she contends that practical jokes are, in reality, nonprofit scams. All of the stories are true, preposterous as they might seem.
It's interesting that many of the incidents mirror the old movies of her father, Eddie Cantor, where, in the end, the weak underdog always outwitted the culprit.