Best Practical Joke Ever Played On Me!

biglou · Dec 20, 2001

Thought this was worthy of this forum. This is a copy-paste of an Email I sent to Blue Thunder and Thunder 33 this morning. Don't know what got me to thinking about this, but it sure is funny (now!):

I don't think I ever told you guys this. Back in the Spring sometime, I come into my office around 10 AM from working in the lab or something, and there is an envelope on my keyboard. I open it up and there is a postcard with a seemingly intimate message on it. The problem? It was a GAY postcard from
San Francisco! It was postmarked there and everything. I'm thinking, "Who the hell would send this to me?" I didn't have a computer at home yet, I had not (at that point) bought anything over the internet yet. So I could not figure out who got my personal info, including my WORK ADDRESS, no less. Come to find out that my pilot friend and his wife had gone to SF for the weekend and picked it up in a little roadside shop. The problem was, there was this fairly cute (albeit whacked in the head) girl working in the mailroom at the time. We chatted nearly everyday and now I'm thinking, "Crap. She thinks I'm gay!" At least she was cool enough to put it into an envelope and not just throw it into my chair. Cuz let me tell you, these animals here have no problems
reading your Emails or papers or whatever. So I head to the mailroom to inquire, very embarrassed, I might add. She asks me if I know anyone out there and I say "No". She asks if I belong to any internet clubs, I say "Just my motorcycle club". "Wait! That sounds like 'Gay Biker Club' !!! It's a DIRTBIKE website!" She is laughing hysterically as I try desperately to defend my manhood. I finally convince her that someone is obviously playing a practical joke on my vulnerable ass, figuratively speaking, of course. So literally weeks go by and I pretty much forget about the incident and I'm talking to Tabb, my pilot friend, who casually asks me "So. Get any postcards lately?" "YOU BASTURD!" I go on a tirade about how that was not cool, blah blah blah...
This is the same friend who, along with his wife, planted the plastic spider Halloween ring on my lampshade when we all lived in Mississippi. Knowing full well that I have an incredible bug phobia (no kidding). I didn't see it until later that night around 10:30. I was just about to smash my lamp when I realized what was going on. The black plastic ring had dust on it, making the spider appear "hairy" in my adrenaline-induced state, only adding to my flustration!
But, I digress...
I had asked a guy at work on the day I received the postcard if he knew anything and he said he didn't. So I later asked him, after I found out who it was, if I should be mad or not. He said "No, that was just good humor!" After thinking about all the crap I've pulled with my twisted sense of humor, I agreed. So then, the Monday after the phone call with my pilot friend, I have an Email waiting for me that says something like this:

Weekend in San Francisco: $450.
Gay postcard from roadside souvenir shop: $1.75
Postage for said postcard: $.20
Ruining your best friends reputation at work: Priceless.

Absolutely true story. I laughed till I cried several times over a period of weeks over this. One of the best practical jokes I've ever seen.

Now that it's been a few months and they have relaxed (hell, they're in ITALY until March, for crying out loud!), I'm sure that they are going to be surprised when their boat/car/house winds up in one of the "trader papers" at a phenomenally low price...hehehe
:p

oldguy · Dec 20, 2001

Are they going to be gone over New Years? If so and they live close enough find an adult establishment nearby and get a couple garbage cans full of bottles and make sure when they get home they the cans are sitting on their backporch with a note...Thanks that was the best party I have had in years- hope we got the bathtub drain unplugged

Patman · Dec 20, 2001

When I was 17 and working at a local grocery store the manager prided himself on never being caught in a practical joke much less on April 1st! Well I had worked there since I was 13 and the owner of the store confirmed to me that he had never been nailed in the 20 years he'd worked for him. So we had a storage building across the street for all our paper products and soda and juice. On March 15th we had a spring on the door break and it flew through several stacks of glass bottled beverages causing them to fall over and take more out as well as tore up some stacks kleenex (yes this was a huge spring for a massive overhead metal door). So we have 3 guys clean this mess up for like 6 hours and get it restocked the next week, I'm talking filled to the rafters! Well doofus only got the broken spring replaced thinking he was saving the boss money. The funny part was I saw them repairing the door and asked the guy if he was replacing both springs and he said no. So after school I go to work, let a few hours pass then get most all the stocker and baggers to go over to the storage building and stand inside the door and wait then when it goes up to yell and point "Got ya'!". So I go running to find the manager and tell him "Hey Vince your gona' ****, I hit the opener for the door and heard a huge bang and stuff breaking over at the storage building!!!" So he goes running out and say's "Hand me the opener!" and I do. We're standing on the opposite side of the street and he hits the button and the door starts to move. He turns to me and says "Pat, your full of ****, man you had me scared there for a minute!" then you see this look come over his face and the crew yells "Got ya'!". I put my arm around his shoulder and said "Vince, happy April fools day." just as the store owner walked up and busted out laughing. Vince turns to me and says"You FIRED!" I smile and say "Maybe tomorrow." the owner says "He's not fired he's got a job for life!".

Zoomer · Dec 28, 2001

A couple years ago, a good friend of mine told me he was taking his wife to a fancy hotel in Milw area for new years (sort of a late honeymoon). He told me this like in September, so by December he forgot he told me:p Well newyears eve, were sitting around, about 11:00, I call a watersking friend of mine and ask here to go down the road to this hotel. She callls his room from the front desk, gets his wife on the phone, and asks for Gregg, telling her that shes sorry shes late for his DATE..........

Same guy some years before, when I was building on to my service shop, he was doing the electrical work. Me and the carpenter where sitting there one saturday night (at the shop about 9:30 ), I called Greg, disguised my voice, and told him I was the local inspector, and was inspecting this location, and that he better get down there right away, if he was the one that did the work, as there was some major problems!:debil: He lived 3 miles from my shop, in 12 minutes he came running through the front door......in his pajamas and slippers, seeing me and John leaning back in our chairs, sipping on our Korbel..........I mean milk. His words, as h e came through the door and saw us, YOU SON OF A B......s

can you say gullabull
Pay backs gona be a bitc........Im still waiting:confused:

biglou · Dec 28, 2001

That reminds me-Jamie (Thunder 33) likes to pull this little trick every now and then. We have our KCRiders Egroup on Yahoo!, so when you email the group, whatever you type into the "subject" box automatically gets a "[KCRiders]" put in front of it. It's kind of like a little "heads up" that about 50 people are going to see that Email. Well, he was getting me a phone number of an attractive female coworker. Next thing I know, I get an Email that has her number. But I notice the [KCRiders] in the subject box! So I hit "Reply" telling everyone to just mind their own business, etc. So after a few Email exchanges with Jamie, I get the one that is screaming in capital letters "I GOT YOU!!!". See, all he did was type in "[KCRiders]" in the subject line. That doesn't automatically send it out to the Egroup. He's gotten Jason and myself with this, the bastage!

oldguy · Dec 28, 2001

tommorow night is a neighbors 40th Bday so my wife and another have been hitting all the used clothing thrift stores in search of the largest 40 bras they can find. Plans are to cover the tree out front of her house overnight with them and a sign declaring- Happy 40th beth we are here to support you-
Hope it doesn't snow to much that night

Patman · Dec 28, 2001

Filled my old/previous) neighbors bathrooms and about 3' deep in the bedroom with black balloons for his 50th. Oh yeah, only about 20% were filled with little "50" confetti and they were randomy placed. So he figures "No problem I'll get a pin and pop them.". Well when the confetti started blowing all over the place his wife made him rattle each balloon before popping it so the loaded ones cold be done in a big garbage bag. Oh yeah did I mention the confetti was the little metallic colored mylar stuff, you know the kind with sharp edges that would pop the balloons from the inside if you shook them just right? :p

Of course payback came when we returned from vacation this past summer. Seems he employed the assistance of my other neighbor who happened to be a Texas DPS officer (state police). So we get home to a taped police line at the front of the house with a chalk outline of a victom that had ketchup for brains on our front entry. They also had a sign in the front yard that said "Warning Sexual Preditor Living Here". They said more people stopped in front of the hose and busted out laughing than they could count. Oh yeah, I kept the police line tape for future use :p

oldguy · Dec 28, 2001

Pat anytime you need it I think I can find some of that yellow tape:confused:
It does come in handy I usually mark our campsite at the track with 'crime scene do not enter' if we are going to be late getting there. For some reason our site is always open

Patman · Dec 28, 2001

I'm considering shutting the water off at the street, flipping the main breaker outside, and switching the exterior telephone jack over to the line 2 side which is dead next time they go on vacation :) Then I may have some of that tape around MY chalk outline :eek: Also Mr. State Copper will feel my wrath soon, I think a layer or two of aluminum foil on his satallite dish might mess up the reception a bit :p

oldguy · Dec 28, 2001

a naughty and sometimes messy payback
Saran wrap pulled very tight across the top of the toilet bowl:debil: can result in a very warm feeling:eek:

biglou · Dec 29, 2001

Ketchup or mayonaise packets placed under the "feet" of the toilet seat makes for a nasty surprise, also.:debil: Hey, I was in the Marines, we know all kinds of nasty little pranks! Like filling an album cover (remember those?) full of shaving cream, sticking the opening under someone's barracks door, and then having someone stomp on it. Nice shaving cream bomb! BTW-Don't forget to run away instead of standing there laughing hysterically or payback can be heck! Then, more often, our joke of choice was to just wrap some poor sod up in his wool blanket, then duct tape him like a burrito and leave him out in the front lawn area. Funny how no one will help a guy out of that situation!

Treejumper · Dec 29, 2001

I use to work night shift afew years ago. Everytime it snowed, the pranks would start flying. The first one played on me was they filled my truck bed up with snow. Being it had a tonneau cover on it i never knew. About 2 months later i noticed the bed kept leaking. I thought to myself "It hasnt rained in a long time". I open the bed and there's this big chunk of snow and ice. Figured it was there this long so i just left it. The dang thing dripped for another month.

My payback was i left an hour early the next year when it snowed and shoveled the parking lot. I piled the snow in front of his car. Then piled it in front of his doors so he had to dig to get in. Of course i took all of the shovels and his gloves home with me. :)

I got my payback awhile later. I usually leave my doors unlocked. So my friend pile snow INSIDE my truck! I was pissed. The whole cab was filled with snow. I just shoved out enough to squeeze in and drove to my parents. Parked it in the heated garage and let it thaw all day. Then had to use a steam cleaner to suck up as much water as possible. Good thing i had vinyl seats.

The final payback was mine! I had the snow plow guy bury his car. You couldnt even see the car. Have you seen the piles they make at the malls? It was like that but with a car under it all. It sat in the mall parking lot for 3 weeks til we were able to pull it out with my truck. He had 2 vechicles so i knew he had other means of transportation. That put an end to the snow fights and i won! :)

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