Some aspects of twenty-first century society are hard to accept. One of the many things Christopher Hudspeth laments on Thought Catalog is this:
3. Cell phones have essentially wiped out the option of pushing someone into the pool.
This is true, and this is sad, but with a healthy amount of wit this can sometimes be circumvented, as demonstrated by John Green in this classic vlogbrothers video (starting at 3m12s):