posted on August 4, 2000 09:15:38 PM
I live to play pranks on people. Nothing that could result in harm or injury, but something for a good laugh. Some of these are people I know, some not. I'll share a couple, and maybe you can share one or two also!
When I worked for the local city bus system, the drivers at the end of the shift would take a separate bus back to the garage. While waiting for the other drivers, we would park the bus next to a pay phone and watch for a person, usually a woman to approach the pay phone. Before she reached the phone, I would use my cell phone to call the phone and let it ring until she answered it. When she answered it, I would usually ask her for a date. Sometimes she would hang up, sometimes she would talk. The expressions on thier faces were so funny. Little did they know that we were only feet from them.
Another one was the time that that local bum, (I swear) was running for the county sherrif's office. He lived in a flop house, had a criminal record, he had no election budget, and no chance in hell of being elected. One of my female co-workers said speaking of the guy, "Frank XXXXXXXXX, your choice and mine". I thought that I would make him an yard sign for his election, but put it in her front yard. I went to Kmart, bought some wood, a piece of sandwich board and magic markers. The poster has a smoking gun, a cactus, and a sherrif's star. This along with Frank's name and the slogan, "your choice and mine".
She quickly found the sign in her front yard, took it out of hers and put it in mine. I was away for the most of the afternoon and evening. The neighbors must have thought that I was nuts for having this in my front yard.
P.S. This was in 1984, and the sherrif is running for office again this year. Off to Kmart again.
In May, 1987 I was in a car accident and my car was totaled. The same co-worker was driving by and saw the tow truck driver cleaning up the mess. She stopped and took a piece of the plastic bumper from the car. Guess what I got for Christmas?
posted on August 4, 2000 09:33:04 PM
Long ago, I worked for Burger King, in the drivethru window. The high school kids would come for lunch, and the line would wrap around the whole building with cars waiting to place their orders. Most were obnoxious. Bad thing to do when Maui is in drive thru. If they got hateful, or yelled at me thru the speaker or flipped me off (I could see them from the cameras aimed at their car windows), I would refuse to take their order. They were stuck...cars in front, cars in back. Man, did they have a fit. And I busted up. When they got to the window, they were NOT happy campers. But the next time they came thru, they were a bit more polite
posted on August 4, 2000 09:36:07 PM
The worst prank I ever pulled was in high school days (many, many years ago). There was a very snooty patooty gal that loved to show off - her daddy was one of the richest men in town. I had tolerated it pretty well until the day she really ticked me off. She had said something and since we were the only two in the room I asked her to repeat what she said. In her most hotty totty voice and looking down her nose she informed me that she was not speaking to me! Lotty dah!
Shortly after that I recruited a friend to help me get a bottle of her White Shoulders Cologne out of her purse - she loved to splash that around like the Queen Bee. Anyway, I put just a little bit of a deer urine product in it - just enough to make it smell like - well, deer urine. As luck would have it, I got to see her when she opened the bottle. She and her little friends that she was showing off for were gagging all over the place.
posted on August 4, 2000 09:42:54 PM
LOL! Way back in my hippie days, a bunch of us partiers would choose one person to pull a placebo on...we would put tobacco in a joint, instead of you-know-what, and tell the person they could smoke it all by themselves, as a gift. Then watch them huff and puff and then fall over and stagger or hold their eyes half closed, or brag of having such a huge rush, "This is great stuff...Im so stoned"!...and all the while, it was tobacco.
posted on August 4, 2000 09:44:55 PM
Ok, here goes.
Dave XXX and I have been friends for 30 years. During that time I have played a prank or two on him.
One evening, about 15 years ago, two friends and I were watching (on TV) the local PBS station. It was during one of thier fund raisers, an annual auction. I was video taping it. An item came up for bid. A one year membership at a place called "The All Tan Sun Club". A nudist place. I put in the winning bid in Dave XXX's name. The station annouced the winner, Dave XXX of XXXXXX, NY as being the winner. Remember I was taping the auction.
I went over to Daves house and insisted he come over to my place. He did. With out him knowing it, I started replaying the video tape. Anytime the nudist auction was memtioned I made sure Dave noticed it.
When the tape announced that Dave XXX of XXXXX, NY was the winner, poor Dave just about keeled over. I looked at him and asked "What did you do?" "What if your mother is watching? I got alot of mileage out of that episode....
Barry (of course I sent PBS a check in Daves name....) Barris
posted on August 4, 2000 09:50:02 PM
I got ticked off at my ex...so I went out in the back yard and made a mud pie. Remember those? Nice and packed and frosted with flour and water, mixed with food coloring to give it some pizazz. Then I wrapped it in cellophane and stuck it in the fridge. He came home, thought it was chocolate cake and sliced a piece, poured a glass of milk and promptly took a big ol bite.
posted on August 4, 2000 10:11:23 PM
I can think of one more real quick. In 1988, when I was first married, my wife and I went to Blockbuster to get a couple of movies. One of the movies was the original Physcho from 1963. As everyone knows, Norman's mother wouldn't let him have "any dirty girls" in the house. In mother's old, frail, but mean sprited voice she would warn Norman about this practice, and what would happen if he brought any of "those filthy wh===s home". Norman would also find little note written by mother warning him about girls. My wife was really interested in this movie and paying lots of attention.
I though that I would play a joke on my her dealing with the movie. We both had glasses of diet Coke. I was finished with mine, she still had half a glass. I asked her if she wanted more Coke, she said no, she would get some in a few minutes. I went to the fridge and got more. Before I left the kitchen, I made a small note on a post-it, it said, KILL the filthy wh===e or I WILL. I got the largest butcher's knife out and put it in the fridge next to the pop with the note.
A few minutes later, she opened the fridge and shouted YOU JACKASS!
posted on August 4, 2000 10:28:56 PM
LOL Yeager...that was BADDDDD! Gotta love it
mybiddness, he was still a current hubby, but not long after that, he was no longer, lol. No loss, believe me Lets just say he was sent packing (with a bit of dirt still stuck in his teeth).
posted on August 4, 2000 10:32:25 PMYeager That reminds me of when the movie Omen first came out. I was single and slept with every light in the house on for a week. I don't handle horror flicks very well.
posted on August 4, 2000 10:34:34 PM
This was not a prank, but is another funny Dave XXX story.
One night Dave and I are driving along a rural road. Dave is driving. I like fire works, you probably could guess that with out me telling you....Dave takes a whole pack of firecrackers, lights the fuse while driving, goes to throw the firecrackers out the window. Big problem. Dave forgot to roll down the window. He looks at me with that look on his face. He throws the firecrackers on the car floor between his legs. BANG BANG BANG and more BANGS. He tries to move away but he is driving!! I push him back into the drivers seat hoping he will keep the car under control. We were all over the road, BANGING everywhere and smoke. My ears rang for week. Since then I don't trust Dave with fireworks, or anything sharp, just in case...
Barry (this made me believe in the Big Bang theory) Barris
posted on August 4, 2000 10:37:20 PM
Heres one more, then I gotta hit the sack...yard sales come early in the morning and Im low on stuff, lol.
My mom used to play tricks on me when I was a teen and even up to my late 20's. Every Christmas, she would pull a prank in a gift. One year, she stuffed 50.00 worth of quarters in a German Chocolate cake...I wondered why she had a glass of water next to each plate, and when I asked, she said I would find out soon enough. Well, I did. Every forkful had a quarter in it (yes, she boiled them first). The water was for washing the coins off. Another time, she gave me a leather purse for Xmas. It was nice and plump, and I assumed it was full of that paper that comes in purses when bought. I never looked inside until I got home from the festivities...it was stuffed with 100 one dollar bills. Another Xmas, I got a new camera, but she neglected to get film for it, so it sat there the whole day, with me whining that there was no film and all the stores were closed since it was Xmas day. At the end of the day, while everyone was fiddling with their gifts, I was playing around with the camera and reading directions, and opened up the back...taped inside where the film went was a 100 dollar bill. The last gift I got was a long steel bar...soldered and welded on the end. She said I would have to get it open to see what was inside. It took me 3 hours to hack saw it open....and inside was..you guessed it...100.00 worth of quarters.
posted on August 4, 2000 11:38:21 PM
I don't want to regale the crowd with instances of MY youth, but I WILL tell a little tale...
Years ago I had a girlfriend who worked at5 a nursing home, and I spent a loy of time getting to know some of the residents..
The 2 funniest stories came from the same old man....
(Remember these are from the '20's)
Taking the bricks that were meant to build a new bank building and making an OUTHOUSE with a sign reading "Deposits Here"
and taking a cow into the School building, tying the cow to the Bell Rope, and leaving. (those of you who grew up in "Cow Country" kbnow what happened)
Keith
I assume full responsibility for my actions, except
the ones that are someone else's fault.
..Dave takes a whole pack of firecrackers, lights the fuse while driving, goes to throw the firecrackers out the window. Big problem. Dave forgot to roll down the window. He looks at me with that look on his face. He throws the firecrackers on the car floor between his legs. BANG BANG BANG and more BANGS. He tries to move away but he is driving!! I push him back into the drivers seat hoping he will keep the car under control. We were all over the road, BANGING everywhere and smoke. My ears rang for week. Since then I don't trust Dave with fireworks, or anything sharp, just in case...