What pranks have been played on you?

I don’t know if it counts as a prank, but when I was in Mexico with my husband (he was my boyfriend at the time) he and his family took me out for my birthday and at one point the waiter came up behing me and put whipped cream in my face. I was really fucking pissed! I immediately wiped some off of my face and smashed it onto my husband’s. I thought he had planned it. Turns out the restaurant just did it according to him. I’ve seen that happen only one other time, and it was at a Mexican restaurant in America. My SIL insists it isn’t a Mexican thing, but rather what Mexicans do to Americans. I have my doubts. It might not be a Mexican thing in her usual circles.

In college, I had two friends who pranked each other constantly, and did it to other people sometimes too. I once told obe of them, “don’t ever prank me.” She replied, “We wouldn’t. We already kind of figured you wouldn’t like it.” I think people can figure out if someone isn’t going to take it well.

One day I was at my private class when the teacher brought out some cookies and candies she had bought from her trip abroad. My classmates and I really enjoyed the food. We were in the middle of eating when one of us spotted another classmate outside. We decided to pull a frank on her by hiding the food and secretly passed to each other without her notice.

She came in and suspected nothing. We passed the food around and ate, trying to make her see us chew but not pass the food. She asked many times what we were eating and we denied, saying she had eye problems. We giggled silently at her confused face.

Finally we decided she had had enough and reveal the food. She admitted to us she shold have known we were hiding the food but she were to naite to believed that she really had eye problems. We all laughed.

It was on an April 1st (April Fool’s Day) many years ago at a hotel. As the staff filed into the office, we discovered a plastic baby pool filled with water and goldfish. The hotel’s pool sign was placed above it. The water cooler’s container was filled with beer. There was a bullet hole decal on the manager’s window. Rubber insects were discovered in strategic locations.

The best part of the prank was that all of our phone extensions were set to receive an automated wake-up call. Everyone received theirs at a different time. Those that received it first kept mum and lurked around the office with a smug smile on their face waiting for the next person to be pranked.

It was harmless and made a typical office day fun. Who knew that our mild-mannered night manager had a playful side to him.

My brothers and I did a lot of pranks growing up.

Toothpaste in the toes of the shoes so you don’t know it’s there till you put it on.
Toothpaste between the sheets.

Crushed up snickers bars in a slipper to look like cat poop.

Pretty much harmless annoyances.

My boyfriend and I were going on holiday from New Zealand to the US and had a really early flight. His workmates stole his car keys and we couldn’t leave the party the threw us. We finally got the keys back and when we got home we found out why they had our keys. They filled most of the house with shredded paper from the office about waist high. We had to clean it up before we could go to bed. It was everywhere. They were HIS workmates so I made him clean most of it. They even filled the toilet bowl. I was so pissed off.

Prank-ly speaking, I better recall one that several of us played on a lad in our agency creative department back in the ‘80s. We invited him to my house for a small party and told him we were going to have pot-laced brownies. We did serve brownies that night, but they were laced with nothing more than basic brownie ingredients – not one blade of grass!

As we sat around downing the little brown squares, we pranksters feigned being stoned, and the goofier we got, the goofier the mark got until he was totally – and I do mean TOTALLY – stoned. It was hilarious. His eyes got heavy, his speech slurred, he couldn’t walk a straight line. Someone actually had to drive him home.

Imagine his reaction – and ours – the next day when we confessed the prank. I don’t think he spoke to anybody for days.

When I was in college I signed up for something one of the psychology classes had going.
They called me it. There were 5 people sitting around a table, and me.
I forget how it started, but I was left thinking they were all volunteers too.
Then a dude picked up a piece of blue paper and said, “I’m going to pass this piece of green paper around, and you tell me what color it is.”
Each student, in turn, said it was green.
I felt like I was in the twilight zone.
Finally it got to me. I admit, I looked at it pretty carefully, then said, “Y’all are nuts. It’s blue.”
Turns out it was a lesson in mass whatever. They said quite a few people actually got the paper and said it was green, because that’s what everyone else said.
So, I felt pretty good about that.

April fool’s when I was a senior in High School.
Woke up on that morning; my mom called me to “help in the front yard”, we lived on a corner. There were more than two dozen “FOR SALE” signs on the front yard. My mom started calling the different agents as I went to school, for agents to pick up the signs. Got into “Homeroom” at the beginning of the school day, three girls that sat next to me, went from a smirks to howling laughter.

I found the pranksters

Would you call my Ex walking out on me after 37 years a prank?

@janbb Hardly!

At 16 my friends and I made chcocolate covered Milk Bine dog bisquits and handed them out on Halloween. We had some irate parents but hey, it is trick OR treat. We figured we covered all bases. The kiddies would have nice tarter free teeth after all.

At 18 a friend and I ( this was the 70’s, hold your judgements haha ) had a bake sale to earn Cocaine money. We baked a bunch of cakes that were rather sad looking but tasted good and sold them on the corner of my girlfriends neighborhood with a sign that said ” Cakes by the handicapped.” We made up an elaborate story about how we worked with handicapped kids and the cake monies were for donations to the charity. We sold out in less than an hour and had our own party that night.

Those are the most memorable but there were many other smaller pranks as a kid, the proverbial fake dog poo on the new carpet that caused my mother to lose it.
Finding a large garter snake at the beach and putting it in a car driven by a group of nuns. ( I felt really guilty about that one but never saw an accident involving a car full of nuns that ran off a cliff of CA.‘s famous Hwy. 1 along the Northern CA. coastline. ) Putting a rubber snake in my grandmothers bed. I was in serious trouble for that one. haha

Telling my ex husband I wrecked his new truck as an April Fools joke. He bought it hook, line and sinker and the look on his face and subsequent melt down was priceless.

Not a very funny one, @janbb.

No indeed!

@Coloma, you sheet!

One April Fools came home from work, turned on the kitchen faucet…and my son had taped the handle to the sprayer hose down and the sprayer nailed me in the face!
He went to bed that night to find his sheets short sheeted, and corn flakes in his bed.

I love my son.

@Dutchess_III and @Coloma: Hilarious!

Some of you guys are kind of jerks. :/

Merry pranksters.

Oh, here is another good one that was pranked on me, probably best yet. This really hilarious guy decides to resume a crazy romance with me and woo me and make promises and then asked me to marry him not once but twice and does everything to convince me to move half way around the world to be with him in a foreign country. Promises me help with the language and finding a job and assures me that I won’t just become some convenient nanny for his 8 year old autistic son and that the mother of his son is a reasonable person and would part of my ‘support system’. I get to Europe, pay for the wedding and do all the paperwork, and when I unpack, within the first month, I’m missing language classes while he is out of town and I’m nanny to his 8 year old autistic son, alone and can’t even communicate with him because I don’t even speak the language yet and I’m missing my language classes because I have to walk the boy to school and pick him up when he’s finished. He guy and his ex left me with their son repeatedly each month while they attended parties, concerts and travel for work, and often leaving me with no money for groceries or paying the bills why they were gone. It was fucking hilarious. For 10 years.

^^ Gee – that’s even funnier than the prank that was played on me.

@cazzie 10 years! Man, I’d have jumped ship in the first year. Glad you finally woke up.

@Coloma Ever been responsible for an at risk child that wasn’t your own? I waited until he was 18. Then, I executed my exit plan.

^^^^ Yes. I understand totally. Love happens. (Not for the guy, the jerk, but for the kid.)

I’m curious as to the rest of the story. Was the jerk convinced you were happy, and was your leaving a total shock to him??

@Dutchess_III I guess you’ll have to wait for the book to come out. lol…. jk…. or perhaps not.

@cazzie That was noble of you, I might have done that in my younger years but these days I’d be gone as soon as that red flag peeked over the horizon. haha

@Coloma it had nothing to do with being noble. These days, I know there are other avenues, but I didn’t know the system here at all at the time. When I reached out to family, friends or the powers that be, I was always told the same thing…. ‘It is up to your husband. You don’t have any say as a ‘step parent’. I knew that answer wasn’t going to cover it. Now, I have my own kid to protect and my step son is on a great path and his teachers are supportive that it is because I stuck around in his life. I have no regrets. I sacrificed something… I don’t know what it was, really… some time…. but I have some more time so I can write and go back to school and do something… I don’t know. Not sure yet.

@cazzie One day at a time. That’s all any of us can do.