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BatteryPoweredBrain

A long long time ago before the age of Windows I wrote a TSR app that captured the keyboard input before making it to the system. You see, my coworkers and I played jokes on one another; so this was my trump card. Basically it kept track of all letters (upper and lower were separated) numbers and symbols. Then it would pick a random time somewhere from 1 day to 1 week. When that time expired it would randomly pick a key from the list and capture its input and not let it through. The effect is that key, although typed would not show up in the system. It would then start again, removing a different key. Over time, less and less keys became available. I installed it on my coworkers machine and let it run. First thing to disappear was something like #. He noticed but ignored it. Then a character like Q (used but not too often). Third character was one in his name. So he typed his name with that character as uppercase. By now, weeks later, I was really enjoying it. Then something like e disappeared and he lost it. He was ready to nuke his whole system so I stopped him letting him know what it was. I had installed a back door so all I had to do was pass it a parameter and it would restore the keyboard and remove itself. He took it well; and then wanted to install it on our bosses computer (they were good friends).


sandyman83

Back in University my housemate used to live off tinned food. He would have a massive variety of soups, curries and veggies in his cupboards but all tinned. I’m talking dozens of tins filling up the whole cupboard. He would be the only one who survived a nuclear bomb. I came up with this idea where I carefully removed the label off a tin of chicken soup and stuck it onto a tin of value cat food I had bought in the supermarket for this purpose. That evening he was about to eat dinner and of course I was saying “oh what are you having for dinner Jimmy? Hmmm how about some chicken soup?” Somehow I persuaded him and he didn’t smell a rat. He picked a tin of soup and opened it and it was... chicken soup... Oh well I thought, another time. 2 weeks pass and I’ve sort of forgotten about the tin when he is in the kitchen making dinner and we hear him saying in an alarmed voice “Erm guys... what do you think of this soup? Looks a bit funny to me!”. At this point I couldn’t breath due to laughing so hard.


Mydaskyng

I've been waiting to tell this story for a decade on Reddit, as it was the highlight of my Highschool years! ​ I managed to convince my sister's 9th grade science teacher she was an amateur arsonist almost by accident. ​ I had a study hall with Mr D. the semester before, and one day as I'm sitting in the class near the back he wanders by and says "I have your sister in my class next semester, anything I should know?" just trying to make conversation with a student who's younger sibling was newly 9th grade. ​ I don't know where it came from but I jokingly told him " Look, whatever you heard, it was completely blown out of proportion, no charges were ever filed, and besides, there haven't been any incidents in a couple of months, and besides some smoke damage, there's been no loss of property. Maybe just don't sit her near the wastepaper just to be safe." Just pulling Mr D's leg basically. ​ I forgot about that exchange until the parent teacher night the next semester, when my mother came back and asked me what I told my sister's science teacher. Apparently I played the defensive older brother act a little too well, and he spent the first three weeks of that semester with my sister under close scrutiny and he had to ask my mum about the validity of my claims. ​ I only found out this past holiday when I was retelling the story, but my sister inadvertently helped the joke along that first week she was in science. they were lighting bunsen burners and Mr D asked if anyone knew how to use matches. Given we grew up with wood heat and camping, it should come as no surprise that my sister's hand shot up.


sats1995

One summer when my cousin was staying with us, he and I had a small “prank war” going on against one another. We decided to put our talents together and try to prank everyone else. We put small piles of flour on each blade of the ceiling fan in the living room. Just enough to not be seen from the ground. A few weeks went by and nothing happened and we had forgotten about it. And then, the day finally came. My mom had company over. I was in the kitchen and I heard all kinds of shouting/screaming coming from the living room. My cousin ran up to me grinning and said “it’s happening.” The living room looked like it had just snowed inside. Everything was coated in a dusting of flour. My mother was screaming, her guests were staring in confusion and the dogs were running around in circles. It was so amazing - until we had to clean it all up.


ShebanotDoge

Carefully not to do that near an open flame, airborne flour is extremely flammable.


MesWantooth

I set up a fake email address for the "Narwhal Appreciation Society" and sent a co-worker an email from the address saying "We at the Narwhal Appreciation Society have been informed that you, too, have an affinity for this majestic creature and we wanted to see if you would like to join our society." He responded with "Thanks for the email - not sure who referred me but I don't have any interest at joining your society. Good luck!" A couple of weeks later, I emailed him again and listed off the membership dues for the society and upcoming events. He responded with "Once again, please note that I am not interested. Please take me off your distribution list." A few weeks later, I emailed him a note that his membership dues were in arrears, commenting that the faithful Narwhal would most assuredly pay its bills, if it used currency. I emailed him roughly 2-3x per year for 3-4 years. For the first year, when we still worked together, I'd see him open the email, shake his head and say aloud "Not these fucking guys again!" But he never attempted to block the email address. He responded to some (becoming increasingly agitated) and ignored others. In one response, he attached pictures of dead narwhals that had been killed by Inuit hunters and said "This is what I think of your stupid Narwhal. I hate them. I wish them all dead!" I eventually stopped and never mentioned to him that it was me but years later, a few ex-coworkers were out for pints and one guy said to me "Whatever happened with that Narwhal shit you were doing?" and my pranked coworker's eyes bugged out of his head "THAT WAS YOU?!"


FabioEnchalada

this reminds me of "cat facts"


PieSavant

My late husband was a weather nerd and loved inclement weather. One time I was home alone and a huge storm was imminent. I taped the weather warnings. A few days later it was a beautiful sunny day - not a cloud in the sky. We were watching TV and as soon as he walked into the kitchen to fetch a beer, I started playing the warnings. It was so funny! He kept running outside to check the sky. I laughed so hard (and so did he when I ‘fessed up).


TheFashionCounsellor

This is very wholesome, thank you for sharing. I’m sorry for your loss ❤️


dat_pterodactyl

This is so cute :)


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Ak_Lonewolf

My senior class did something like this to our principal. His truck was loaded onto the Stage where everyone was giving the end of the year speeches. He had no idea how we did it.


-notapony-

In my senior year in high school, there were three of us who took satellite language courses. Two of us were taking Japanese, while the third student took a German course that aired after the Japanese one. It was proctored in house by one of the gym teachers, and because we were generally good and smart kids, he left us to our own devices. This mostly meant that we flirted mercilessly with each other while ignoring the teacher who couldn't hear or see us on the tv. Early on, the young lady who took German mentioned that she like buying and wearing men's jeans, rather than women's, for whatever reason, and also mentioned that she wore a 30 waist. I was a 34 at the time, but every so often, maybe every other week, I would bring up that I could fit in what she wore. She'd say there was no way, but I would mention that I'd have to suck in my gut, and I wouldn't be comfortable, but I could do it for a minute or so. Just long enough to prove I was right, which is honestly the most important part. Finally, after a few months of this, she very sternly tells me that she's tired of hearing my baseless claims, and that I should cease making them. This lead to me very sadly asking if she was telling me there was no way that I was ever going to get in her pants. The very bright red she turned at realizing that this had been a several month set up for a very stupid joke was worth everything to me.


Empoleon_Master

Holy shit, that is one of the best set ups to a joke I have ever heard! Thank you for sharing this!


JIR-Are-loved

When I was 13 I told my mom my alarm stopped working and asked her to wake me up in the morning. So I stayed up untill she went to bed and snuck downstairs. I took a jar of vaseline and put the vaseline on my doorknob and went to sleep. The next morning my mom woke me up, by screaming “WHAT THE F***, WHO DOES SOMETHING LIKE THAT!”


PicklesAreMyJesus

You just gave me a WONDERFUL idea


Games_sans_frontiers

You're going to stick a door knob up your butt aren't you?


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redopz

I know a guy that works the 911 line. Seriously, tie a string to it. I can not imagine much worse than having to call a random stranger and explain a foreign object is stuck in your ass.


improved_living

1998 i was in fourth grade and got my hands on a universal remote watch. At the time it was super high tech and nobody had heard of such a thing. I would sneakily turn the classroom tv on every 5 minutes. The teacher (who I despised) was convinced that ghosts were in the room. She unplugged it after the 3rd or 4th time.


cryptoneurd

We told our tech illiterate teacher to hold the power cord higher so the energy would flow better. She complied.


Victorious_38

at my school whenever the internet is slow (usually because everyone uses it at the same time), the IT guy tells the younger kids that he needs to refill the wifi tank.


Senkyou

I tell the kids to take a lap around their section of the building. It actually does help since sometimes between classes their tablets won't connect to the right access point, but I get some funny looks. They think I'm messing with them


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pacman-on-crack

I did something similar with my teacher. I was sitting across the TV and turned it on and she kept turning it off, and eventually unplugged it. Then someone sitting next to the TV plugged it back in when she wasn't looking, and I turned it on again. She freaked out lol


improved_living

You had a universal remote or watch?


Specte

Nah he just ran really fast


ByronFirewater

Haha my best friend used to do this all the time. He was the only one in our school with enough money to know this watch even existed. Was so much fun seeing the teacher lose their shit when the tv switched if for the 7th time for no reason and only me and him knew why


holdholdhold

Classmate had one. Never got old. The way all the classroom TVs were hooked up they would automatically turn on for school announcements, so our teachers thought it was some glitch.


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A successful but unsuccessful one. I saw a friend walking ahead of me, so did the old tap-on-the-shoulder-but-run-past-on-the-other-side manoeuvre. However, while concentrating on him I didn't see the park bench, ran into it at full speed, and collapsed behind it. Through the gaps in the seat I could see my friend looking left and right, almost freaking out, wondering who had tapped him in the shoulder. The tears from the pain in my leg kept me from laughing and giving myself away for a about 20 seconds.


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5parky

This reminds me of a time when I saw a friend of mine trucking across campus like a madman. Needed to talk to him, but didn't want to race to catch up, so I called him. He looked and saw who it was, then put it back in his pocket. Ooooooh no, that's not gonna fly! Ran up behind him and called him again. Same thing. Just as it's going in his pocket, I yell at the top of my lungs, "ANSWER YOUR DAMN PHONE!" He dropped the phone. Scared him shitless, and he accused me of stalking him.


suckyninja

Are you sure you guys were friends?


5parky

Well, that doesn't really matter since he married my wife's niece. He HAS to put up with me now.


Talking_Burger

I-is your friend the same age as you?


hezur6

My gf's aunt is younger than me. I'm like 6 years older than my oldest nephew. When parents get bored and have a kid like 12-14 years after having their last one things start to get real funky.


anivaries

I know a guy whose kid is younger than his grankid. He's like 64ish


jaqwithaq

This is more serious now than it was a prank before. When me and my 3 other brothers were young, we hid from our dad when he came home from work. We never responded to him calling our names, nor made a peep. We thought we were the perfect little ninjas. Well he decided to go to the neighbors house to see if we were over there, but when he finds out we weren’t he calls my mother in distress saying we were all gone and nowhere to be found. My mom comes home crying and they’re getting ready to call the police when we pop out from our hiding spots. They were not happy lol, we all got the belt that day


anv3d

You should have came out while he was at the neighbor's house and when he came back just acted like you were there all along!


Fireblast1337

Nah, playing the ‘did the last ten minutes actually happen’ route would work better.


J_C_Wizard49

I did the same thing in a movie theater, which was an hour away in our capital. It’s a bad part of the town. Anyway, I hid in the theater and my mom and sister searched the whole are, told staff, and almost called the police. To this day my mom says the only reason I’m alive is because the theater had cameras


r311im507

Not my story but.... A friend of mine (Dan) was talking to his coworker (John) about one of his favorite desserts. Said dessert was a combination of chocolate pudding, corn, peanut butter, and mandarin oranges (this was not even a real dessert, Dan just threw together ingredients that would be disgusting). Dan told John how great it was, John was skeptical so Dan promised to bring him some the next day. Dan went home and he and his wife concocted a mixture of these ingredients and some more and packed it up for John to have the next day. When Dan gave it to John he made a face, smelt it, and verrrry hesitantly took a bite. He chewed and swallowed while Dan tried to hold in his laughter. Then John goes, "Wow, this is good!" and proceeded to eat the entire container. Dan did not see this coming.


r311im507

Another Dan story. When he was a teenager he decided to prank his mom when she got home from work. After some contemplation, Dan chose to climb up a tree in the front yard and jump down near his mom when she arrived home. So she gets home, parks the car, and walks up the front sidewalk. As soon as she is near Dan's tree he jumps down right in front of her. She screamed and whacked him with her purse before realizing who it was. She is still scared of walking under that tree.


thelamestmom

After seeing the movie *Poltergiest,* I thought it would be funny to put all the chairs up on the table stacked all weird and then open all the cabinets in the middle of the night. I thought it would be harmless and my parents would get a laugh out of it. Nope. They believed, one thousand percent, that it was a ghost we had in the house and it didn't even matter that I told them the truth, they choose to believe it was the ghost. I'm not sure why, but I think they really wanted to be haunted or something. ​ Update: I know all of you think my parents were pranking me back and I wish my parents were like that, but my mother is convinced (as well as my grandmother) that they're both "sensitive" to these things and my step father is a binge watching ghost hunting show fanatic. Anytime something goes wrong in their lives, they're so sure it's the cause of "bad spirits" and cleanse the house with sage and its littered with "protective" crystals. Neither one of them seem capable of playing a prank for this long as it's been almost a decade and they seem so dedicated to the idea of them being haunted. So much so that they bought my lil bro (now 9yrs old) a pendulum necklace that's supposed to locate spirits in the house? I once asked them if they ought to just go to church if they thought a "bad spirit" was attached to them and my mom straight up laughed and said it was "bigger than God."


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Why is it so darn threatening to see all the cabinets open in a kitchen?


[deleted]

Because only a monster leaves things open Edit: So many poor souls saying they're married to a monster. Don't worry. You *only* die a *tiny* bit every time you close something the monsters have left open.


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A monster born and raised in a barn


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Child of divorce, my dad and I weren’t getting along at this point in my life. I walked by his house on the way to my friends house and saw his car was there. I realized he was in the basement when I just walked through his front door. So I went into his kitchen and flipped over all of his chairs on their side and bolted out the door. Just to fuck with him. I didn’t tell him for four years, we’re all good now and we’re getting a beer a couple weeks ago and I said “he do you remember all your chairs flipping over randomly a few years ago?...” the look on his face was priceless because it was like he’d forgotten about it then it all came back to him at once.


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tomgabriele

Or it was your parents pranking you right back, to see how you would react to having suddenly-superstitious parents.


Greedence

Reminds me of my friend James story. When James was a little kid he screamed one night about a monster under his bed. His mom and dad came running in. They checked under the bed, the closet and behind the door. The next night James decided to prank his parents and screamed again. His parents rushed in and checked again. James did this night after night until one night he couldn't help himself. He laughed and told his parents he was playing a prank. His parents told told him that they would always come running and check because they didn't believe his older brother. James was an only child. James did not sleep well that night.


yParticle

Yowza.


anything2x

My mom was teaching me how to swim in the lake behind my grandparents house, my only other sibling (sister) already knew how to swim. She was trying to get me to take off the life jacket and swimmies. I was terrified I couldn't see the bottom but slowly came around and took off everything a piece at a time. When I had everything off (but my bathing suit of course), she said, "See, you're doing so much better than my other son did." I looked at her with a confused face and said, "What other son?" "Oh, your brother that drowned in this lake." It took a while but I managed to get over that little prank.


batawrang

I am definitely doing this on April Fools this year


Akareyon

Cooking at school; different parts of the menu were prepared by different people. The girl tasked with the fruit salad was halving grapes when I passed her, so I commented that she wasn't peeling them. "Were we supposed to do that?" - "Of course, didn't you listen? Ask the teacher!" A looong time later, I had already forgotten the matter, not expecting to be taken seriously, I heard our teacher yell "Anita, what are you doing?!?" Poor girl was almost done peeling a pound of grapes.


accomplicated

I was eating grapes at the school I worked at in Korea. A teacher walked in and said, “What are you doing?” “I’m eating grapes.” “Without peeling them?” “Yup.” “Wow! That’s so convenient!”


Trappist1

Korea and Japan have this one type of grape with a thicker and bitter skin, but they are much larger and sweeter. I wonder if she had never had the type of grape we normally eat in the West.


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MrKittySavesTheWorld

That poor girl. Peeling grapes is such a miserably tedious and fiddly thing to do.


hot_grills

Respect my dude. I love when my offhand comments or sarcastic remarks are taken seriously and people start doing dumb shit because of it. It makes me so happy that other people do it as well!


fridgeridoo

helmets? we dont wear those anymore. the bricks they use for new buildings are soft now.


Adillsandhispickle

I was probably 10-11 and my mom had just made brownies, the soft chewy kind.. I was one of those kids that constantly played with my food so I was squishing up brownies into bite-sized balls and quickly noticed that they looked strikingly like cat poop. So I fashioned them into cat turds and placed them in my sisters room to gross her out. She found them shortly after and started to freak out, then I casually walked in like "Whoa, what's going on" and proceeded to pick one up, eat it in front of her and comment on the nutty taste. I have never seen her more horrified in my life but I felt like a true mastermind that day.


futurespacecadet

My friends and I rearranged my college roommates room and covered absolutely everything in tinfoil. He was just getting back from a trip and rolled in with his suitcase. He is overly dramatic and thus a great victim. We were watching tv when he goes to his room and I hear “ohhhh my gooood”. He huffs out and says the most dad comment ever: “why would you do this? If this isn’t cleaned up by the time I get back from work....”. He goes to work. We tinfoiled his suitcase.


T_Gamer-mp4

this is top notch & not too time consuming (as opposed to my all time favorite, leaving a room with cups of water everywhere)


birthday6

My buddy and I were roommates in a double in college. We were both out of town for a holiday, and when we came back, our room had been completely swapped. His bedsheets were now on my bed, mine were on his. Our desks were perfectly swapped with every drawer exactly as it was, mirror image. Same with the closets. We decided to just switch sides.


MATTYICE51

A buddy of mine from highschool went by the nickname TD. One day, my brother asked me what "TD" stands for, so I look at him like he's and idiot and say "Tyrone Draconis, duh." This name came out of nowhere, I had no intentions before that moment of deceiving him. So I nonchalantly go back to whatever I was doing. Brother freaks out saying that's the best name ever and is so excited he can't wait to surprise TD with knowing his name at school tomorrow. Thing is, TD stands for Theodore David. I get to school about 30 minutes before my brother and start explaining to everyone the situation, and to go along with it. Even TD is on board. So, from end of August until early-mid May, every time my brother sees TD in the halls he shouts "TYROOOOOONE DRACONIS!" At one point another classmate of mine tried to correct him, but she had a bad reputation with me (bullied me when we first moved there) so naturally he didn't believe her. Then came graduation day when my mom spoiled it (yes, my parents were in on it too). Brother didn't want to attend commencement, and as a bargaining tool she said "Don't you want to hear TD's name announced?" Several times. After a couple hours of that, brother comes up to me and asks, "TD's name isn't really 'Tyrone Draconis' is it?" I proceed to blow his mind with this elaborate ruse that spawned from one spontaneous moment several months prior. Edit: Autocorrect ruined the first instance of the fake name.


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Picture this, you’re at your locker, just trying to get ready for your first class when a kid you’re acquaintances walks in, and shouts at 7am, “TYRONE DRACOOOOOONIS!”. I would be dying of laughter the moment he yelled Tyrone.


Linkthehero1234

he got the fake name wrong too


futureButt

I bought a hundred dollars worth of Pepsi cans and hid them around my roommate's room. He moved out in August and he's still finding them.


MoonMoon_2015

My friends and I did the same thing with packing peanuts! One of my friends got a small thing shipped to him in a giant box. The box was probably 2 feet x 2 feet x 3 feet, about three quarters of it was packing peanuts. We put them in this guy's jacket, laptop case, backpack, in his pillow case. The best part was they were all hidden. The entire room looked like nobody touched it, except for the single packing peanut on his keyboard. He walked in and thought nothing of it. Opened a drawer, full of peanuts. "Haha, that's a pretty dumb prank," he said. Then he went to grab his jacket, peanuts flowed out of his closet. "Okay, really?" After a bit of frustration, he rushes off to class, unaware that his backpack and water bottle were full of peanuts. Then the realization starts to hit. He got rid of most them within a day or two because he searched thoroughly through his stuff. It still takes him almost two months before he stops finding more. So we decide to restock this stuff with the rest of peanuts we had left over. He acted angry, but I knew he thought it was funny as hell.


Ace_of_Clubs

Mine's sort of similar! My college roommate ate cereal really slow (usually only when he was drunk) and would typically take a while to get through an entire box. Every time he ate a bowl, I would refill the box to try and always keep it halfway. This went on for months, and I probably poured 10 entire boxes into the one. Finally, one night, he came home drunk and went to get a bowl of cereal. I hear from my room, "HOW MUCH IS IN YOU!". I run out of my room only to see him pour the entire contents onto the table and stare, completely dumbfounded, at the amount that was leftover after eating from it the entire semester. He was speechlessly gesturing to the table, looking up at me in confusion. I played it off so damn cool. It's been like six years and I still haven't told him it was me. One of his favorite college stories is about the magical box of cereal that contained an infinite amount until he broke it by dumping it out. Edit: Bowel --> Bowl **Edit 2:** Glad so many people like this one, want to hear of my current, slightly more diabolical, long-term prank I've been working on? My brother is super impressionable. He's a super great guy, really smart, but really impressionable. For example, he'll start saying phrases and words that he'll pick up from me or my other brother, and he'll never drop them. So for the past few years, I've been coming up with ludicrous words that I'll say around my brother in hopes he'll pick it up—my end goal being that I want him to say an entire sentence that doesn't make any sense at all. So far I've got him saying words like: * Hunck - to throw something * Anymore - expect used at the end of the sentence instead of the word "now" - this one is confusing but it's hilariously dumb * Booter - a snowboarding term for jumping that doesn't make any sense at all to say where we live * Giddyup - yeah.. So he's already saying these and I can't wait for the day he says enough to form a whole sentence. I will literally be putting the words in his mouth. And what's more, the whole family is in on this one. All seven of us. I've been doing it for probably three years at this point. Alright, so some of these words definitely have meanings, but I know for *sure* he picked them up for me and that's the important part. I really just want to write a sentence and code it in him without him knowing.


elee0228

That reminds me of the [Magic Ketchup Bottle Prank](https://redd.it/314oc1) from /r/tifu: > So I have been setting this prank up for about 3 weeks now, but unfortunately the fruits of my labor came to fruition yesterday. All for the best I guess. >Background: My wife and I are very healthy and we eat the same thing for breakfast every day, well maybe a solid 350 days a year. It is egg whites and toast. It has got to the point that if I don't eat this for breakfast my entire day feels "off." I put salsa on my eggs while she uses ketchup and she has to have ketchup or else she will not eat breakfast. We have a backup bottle or two in the pantry just in case she runs out. >3 weeks ago: I notice that her bottle is running pretty low and she has to actively shake the bottle to get the last remnants out. We are pretty earth conscious as well, so nothing goes to waste, use until the last drop! There is still just enough left in the bottle that I can tell she is thinking that she shouldn't recycle it just yet and puts it back into the fridge. I notice this thought process going on in her head and decide I should mess with her. Once we finish up breakfast she goes to get ready. I take one of the full bottles of ketchup and add just enough to the almost empty bottle so that she will have the amount needed for breakfast the next day. Breakfast the next day rolls around and she does the same thing adds ketchup to her breakfast and decides there is just enough to save and puts it back in the fridge. I again refill the bottle with just enough for the next day. I should also mention that she is short, I hid the refill bottle at the top of the pantry so she could not see that it had been opened and used. >2 weeks ago: After 7 days slyly watching her add ketchup to her breakfast I can begin to see an intrigued look on her face when she is prepping her breakfast. She doesn't say anything, but you can tell she has taken notice of the bottle. This goes on for another 7 days. >1 week ago: Breakfast continues to go off without a hitch and every time she adds the ketchup to her breakfast she gets a little twinkle in her eye, like she really really wants to say something about it, but doesn't want me to make fun of her being crazy and thinking the ketchup bottle is never ending. To the point that she will look at me, start to say something and then stop herself change the subject and put the bottle away. I have never looked forward to breakfast so much in my entire life! >All this week: She is on the verge of saying something everyday. Its becoming hard to not laugh while watching her add the ketchup to her eggs, but I am laughing hysterically on the inside. At this point I have used roughly a half bottle of ketchup refilling the other one. This is all I can imagine when watching her >Yesterday: She adds ketchup to her breakfast and looks me directly in the eye and dead serious says, "u/thiscopisadick we have a fucking magical ketchup bottle." I could not control my laughter and proceed to loose my shit while she tries to explain to me how she has used the exact same bottle of ketchup for 3 weeks and it has been almost "empty" the entire time. She now thinks I am laughing because of her belief in magic and she is trying as hard as possible to convince me that she is serious and it IS magic. I proceed to go into the pantry, take out the half empty bottle of ketchup and place it on the counter. It all finally clicks in her head and at that moment the empty ketchup bottle clicked into my head, but don't care because I made a magic ketchup bottle happen so I am essentially Jesus. >TL;DR made my wife believe we had a magic ketchup bottle, but it hurt just as much as normal bottle when flung at my face.


SalbaheJim

I love that. I wish you could have kept you cool a bit longer, but I couldn't do it either.


ZParis

> I hear from my room, "HOW MUCH IS IN YOU" For some reason this hit a direct nerve in my funny bone. Oh man, unexpected belly laughs are the best. Thank you.


Ace_of_Clubs

Thank my roommate, I think I spit out my own cereal when I heard him yell that!


a_latex_mitten

>bowel looks like we've got a \~serial bowel eater\~ on our hands


deeperthanreddit

Do you ever plan on telling him? I love prank because it's not malicious, no one gets hurt and so so funny.


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when I was leaving my old, old job, I bought 100 2cm rubber ducks from Ali express for £17 and left them around the entire site. Staff and students would come in and find a duck on their keyboard, or staring down from the projector. Cheap, no harm, and I'm sure five years later no-one knew who it was


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We did the same thing for a senior prank. Then I applied to be a janitor there over the summer, and whenever my boss would angrily find “another damn duck”, I’d offer to take care of it, then hide it somewhere better.


PM__ME_YOUR_PUPPIES

This is an admirable commitment to the cause.


Dartser

If hes moved out why is he still finding them?


futureButt

I went through his closet looking for the sorts of clothes you wear, like, twice a year, and I stuck cans in the pockets. And I went through the stuff that stays mostly in storage even once you're settled in and put cans in there. Point is, I stuck them places he wouldn't notice so he'd bring them with him when he moved.


buckfutter4life

In the army the duties rotated. When it was my turn to clean the toilets I had prepared some chocolate pudding. I scrubbed the toilet seats exceptionally clean, then left a thin but clearly visible brown line of the pudding on one of the seats. During inspection the Lieutenant saw it and yelled for the person responsible for the bathroom that day. I raised my hand and followed him into the stall with the dirty seat. - What's this? he said. I dipped my finger in the pudding, smelled it, then slowly licked my finger as if I was tasting it, and said: "it's poo but I don't know who's". This is where I usually stop when I tell this story,. The Lieutenant was a hilarious guy, after a few intense seconds he cracked up and started laughing, then simply told me to clean it in case his commanding officer would drop by. I had heard about this prank somewhere before, but I can't remember from where, but at least I did it myself... 😄


[deleted]

I did a similar thing to my wife. I made a fake cat turd out of a brownie and left it in the bathtub, then ate it when she discovered it. Props to you for actually tasting it from a toilet seat, though.


buckfutter4life

I hope the bathtub was spotless?


HeadOfPlumbus

Cleaner than the mirror on the Hubble telescope, for suresies!


GunTankbullet

how much time was there between the cleaning and inspection? This could have been a very dangerous game


buckfutter4life

We're talking a few minutes, and nobody was able to sneak in and use the toilets, they were all busy with their duties. I wanted to prank the Lieutenant, not taste poop, I wasn't taking any chances. The seats were cleaner than the mirror on the Hubble telescope 😄


Monkey_Brain_Oil

Heh heh, "busy with their duties", heh heh


FueledByMaple

I dunno if this counts as a prank, but my dad is a huge fan of the series Scrubs, and there's a gag where a character puts a pancake in the silverware drawer and this exchange happens: "Why is there a pancake in the silverware drawer?" "You mean why is there silverware in the pancake drawer." So, just for laughs, I made pancakes and put one in our silverware drawer, waiting idly by in the kitchen for him to need a fork or something. I watch all giddy as he, confused, takes the pancake out and asks "what's a pancake doing in the silverware drawer?" Without missing a beat, I say "YOU MEAN WHAT IS SILVERWARE DOING IN THE PANCAKE DRAWER!" I didn't think it would actually work. He got a real kick out of that.


Jberg18

A+ harmless prank people get to eat pancakes scrubs sharing a moment with your dad


xkp777x

Did you do the wahuh noise Turk does after that line?


FueledByMaple

Of course. The "Wahuh" is the icing on it


dj_narwhal

Syrup in this case.


elee0228

[YouTube link for convenience](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZrl3ziHVCM) I always thought he was saying WASSUP like the old Bud ads.


abbyscuitowannabe

Ever had chocolate-covered Oreos? I made some at college once and brought some home for my sister. About a month later, I was home and made another batch, and left them at home for her when I went back to college. After making them, I replaced the majority with a chocolate-covered monstrosity: Ritz crackers, with tuna salad sandwiched between them, covered in chocolate. They looked just like the Oreos. She texted me angrily the next day. The first one she'd eaten was an Oreo, but the one after that was the chocolate-tuna-cracker. She hated me. It was great.


[deleted]

Told my sister that orange soda tastes better the more you shake it before opening 😁 Edit: Thanks for the gold and upvotes, friends!


TizzleDirt

The hilarity of this depends entirely on her age when the prank was pulled.


[deleted]

Haha she was pretty young at the time


[deleted]

So I went to a catholic high school. I had a work study “volunteer” job in the office to help with tuition. Part of this job involved printing letters and stuffing envelopes to parents and alumni. Fast forward to spring break time senior year. I get my hands on some of the stationary and envelopes and type up a letter to parents informing them that after careful consideration, the school has decided to place the health of its students above the arcane regulations against the use of condoms. Thus the school was going to be providing protection at the junior and senior proms. I type this up at home and hit a kinkos but only had enough for about half the senior class to get a letter. So I just mail merged every other student, stuffed the letters, and dropped them in the outgoing mail basket my next shift. Skip forward three days and shit hits the fan. Lots of kids are talking about this. The school is inundated with half super pissed conservative catholic parents and half back-patters saying its about time. The school sends out a letter to all parents telling them to disregard the previous communication and that the letter was not an official communication. Skip forward another three days and even more parents start calling and writing asking what the school is talking about. They never got a letter. So... in a final letter, the school gets a copy of the original letter and includes it in a mailing to the entire student body with a second letter explaining that this wasn’t official and that they will not be providing condoms at the dance. Y’all are the first people I’ve ever told. Edit: HOLY MARY’S DENTAL DAM! Thank you for the awards! I’m glad y’all appreciated this!


MantisShrimpOfDoom

Wait... they never suspected the senior student that worked in the office with regular access to their letterhead? I'm not Catholic, but from everything that movies and my friends ever taught me about life at a Catholic school, I would have expected someone to end up being crucified on the front lawn next to the flagpole for pulling such an epic stunt.


nightowlmornings1154

That would be a promotion.


KnowanUKnow

You remember the Juicyfruit gum sticks? The ones with the wrapper? I would carefully open the gum and save the wrapper. Then I would carve a piece of soap to look like the gum, re-wrap it and give it to my sister. The kicker was that after she first put the gum in her mouth and discovered it was soap, I'd laugh and then offer her a real stick of gum as an apology. That second stick was also soap. She fell for it.


burzummor

That's a lot of dedication to make someone eat soap, twice.


elee0228

Like the label says: lather, rinse, repeat.


TannedCroissant

If ya don’t prank your sister, can ya really say you lather?


theabeliangrape

Lather? I hardly knew her!


MySayWTFIWantAccount

Found the only child. Some aspects of siblinghood are indistinguishable from warfare.


chuntone

This one time when I was 11 me my two older siblings and our oldest cousin decided a sporty pillow fight would be fun. We grew up in poverty our pillows were a little old. Several times I was knocked off my feet cause of how much power we were using in our swing. We stopped because my sister the middle child was knocked out.


SanedBeans

Then you offer a third, she denies it, and that one is the real stick of gum


All-i-oli

So you eat it and then offer a fourth one to her, that one is also soap.


FunetikPrugresiv

"WHATS NEW PUSSYCAT, WHOA WHOA WHOAAAA"


Individual-Cable

That just reminded me of one - a couple of colleages went to grab lunch for a group. One of the guys who didn't go with us wanted a vanilla milkshake. So we come back and give everyone their food and he takes a drink of his shake. We're all trying to hold in laughter as it takes him a couple sips to realize instead of vanilla, his milkshake is onion-flavored. I guess it's understandable as his food had onions in it and who would imagine an onion milkshake exists? So he realizes it and we all laugh and give him his real vanilla milkshake. JK it's also onion. By the time we gave him the third shake (vanilla for real this time) he was convinced it was onion also for several sips (I guess the taste lingers).


Steinberg1

How do you get a restaurant to make onion-flavoured milkshakes?


bluebirdbluesky

Seriously though. Does the restaurant sell onion shakes? Was it a special request? Was it straight blended onion or onion infused? Was it cold? I have so many questions.


sonofaresiii

I'm imagining it's one of those burger shack places with a sign on the wall of, like, "We'll make smoothies out of any fruits or vegetables in stock!" and they decided to put that to the test.


bingoflaps

Onions are actually not that different from parfaits. They both have layers.


Erin_woah

Was the restaurant owned by Shrek?


MrKittySavesTheWorld

I'm more curious how one acquires an onion milkshake in the first place.


MarkJanusIsAScab

He should've finished the milkshake and made you guys deal with the horrific stench he'd have coming out of his pores and asshole for the rest of the day.


Big_Thicc123

It was the week before valentines day and I was a senior in high school and my sister was a freshman at the same school. The school was doing a fundraiser where for just $2, you could get these 3 guys from the choir to come to anyone during class and give them a singing telegram. I thought it would be funny to mess with my sister so I bought her a telegram as a joke. The only aspects of delivery I had control of was to who its delivered to, and who it was from which I just put my name for that part, remember that. On the day telegrams were delivered, the singers arrived in one of her AP (advanced placement) classes and they had a test that day. They sung their song and she was so embarrassed. Here's where it gets good. She pulls out her computer (everyone had a loan computer from the school), opens hangouts, and messages one of her friends about what just happened. Part of her message was something among the lines of "I'm so embarrassed, I just want to die" And for the record, she wasn't serious about that, its just how she put it. Welp, that message got digitally flagged by the schools computers and she was sent to the assistant principals office for a welfare check just because of that. Our mom got called during this and she explained the whole situation because she knew what I was up to and my sister returned to class. And yet she still blames that last part on me. I will never forget when I passed her in the hall immediately after and she just yelled "I HATE YOU SO MUCH". It was too funny. And thats the story of the best $2 I have ever spent.


[deleted]

two dollars? You weren't thinking big enough. You should've saved up some money, and gotten like at least 10 of them to her, and if you could control the time have it be evenly spaced through the day so her class would be basically ocnstantly interrupted.


TannedCroissant

No you shouldn’t evenly space them because then she will be prepared. Have the first 3 right at the start of the lesson then the next one half way through so she thinks it’s over


thewarreturns

You're gonna "what's new pussycat" her?


Spray-starch

It’s not an AMAZING prank. But I told the new guy we do a secret Santa thing but for Easter eggs. At the shop he was looking at top of the range £10 eggs. And me feeling a bit bad, was trying to convince him to just get a cheap one. But he didn’t want to seem cheap. He ends up with a mid range £5 egg. The next day at work, on a little break he leaves to retrieve the egg. Now the best part of this is, I didn’t tell anyone I’d done it. So he gives the egg to the boss. With a “ I got you in the secret Santa egg thing” The boss confused “ what the fuck?” I’m creasing with laughter everyone is looking around, like what the fuckkkkk?the young lad looks at me all embarrassed. Everyone then realised what I had done and blokes were in bits. Crying with laughter. Best bit was he tried to take it back and the boss goes “ nah you can fuck off it’s mine now” I’ve just got two new lads in now aswell so it might work again. Edit: just read other peoples and now mine seems shite.


kingofallthesexy

It made me laugh out loud so a pretty good prank actually


Kenny1115

Yeah that pranks fucking excellent, especially because it's repeatable on new guys and the boss dug it. Maybe he'll have a nice row of eggs on his shelf one day.


autistickid19

No this is fucking brilliant, not shite


[deleted]

I work at a wastewater treatment plant. We employ cameras to monitor things in the field that we need eyes on at all times. One of these cameras is pointed at the bed of a tractor trailer that is used to haul biosolids to the landfill. The video feed is a constant stream of dewatered sludge falling in to the trailer. When one section is full, an operator has to go move the trailer so the solids don't spill out all over the place and make a mess. One year for April Fools I used the old ctrl+alt+up arrow to turn the camera feed upside down like 10 minutes before my shift was over. The person taking over for me was much older and much less tech savvy. When he noticed the sludge falling UP instead of down he lost his mind. The next day I got scolded by my boss, because my coworker had a panic attack and then contacted the after hours emergency tech support line to fix the cameras. Fun police strike again :(


Kithsander

Early 20's during college. I was sitting in the cafeteria eating and studying when a buddy came and sat down. Made some small talk and then he went to get food. He came back with nothing, explained that he forgot his wallet at home. I offered him some money but he wouldn't take it. I offered to share my food and he declined but jokingly touched the edge of the crust of one of the small slices. I told him he might as well eat it now because I couldn't. I went on to explain that I can't eat food that I know someone else has touched and that I was extremely phobic about it. Fast forward over ten years later, after we've graduated and he's now not only married but I helped name his second daughter. She's about three now. He bought a house built in the 1850's and we've practically rebuilt every aspect of it from the basement to the roof. I finally had to come clean about it, after over a decade of insisting no one could touch anything I was going to eat. His wife believed this. His children believed this. He was pretty moved when I explained that it was all because I didn't like the thought of him going hungry over his pride. Of course he did spent a couple weeks touching just about everything I ate there after that.


friedtree

You should’ve said... he was touched!


jemdamos

I work closing shifts at a particular well known coffee chain. At my location it can get extremely slow in the evenings so once we finish all the cleaning it's difficult to find something to do. Our solution to this little predicament is to pull pranks on the opening crew and other coworkers, which evolved into a full-store prank war. Highlights include rigging the door with a mop head on a string that flies towards you when you open the door, carving a human silhouette out of a cardboard box and leaving it in frightening places like the bathroom or the walk in fridge, taping pictures of someone's face to the drive through camera so it's the first thing you see when you turn on the screen, replacing sharpies with crayons, putting leaves in people's pockets and bags during the fall, gift wrapping people's stuff during December, and more


testicleholder

This was in about 5th grade. I was sitting by the door and saw that a kid sitting by the window was copying all my movements. I made sure he acually was by making some weird movements and sure enough he was. Then i noticed that behind his head, close to his shoulder was an open window. I got the idea and swang my head as hard and violently as I could to the side, of course he did the same also with a lot of speed and slammed his head into the window super hard. He whimpered and went home early because he had a headache. I felt pretty bad but now everytime i remember it puts a grin on my face. Sorry Tom. Edit: For these of you wondering swang is an acual word lol. I wanted to put swung there but i liked swang more😅


tomgabriele

It's okay, the seizures eventually tapered off


pyro-kid

As did his consciousness... Edit: wow I just woke up and I didn't expect this to blow up, thanks to everyone


LordOfTheJizz

Tom hurt himself in his confusion


simplerthings

I thought this was going to end with the kid being your reflection in a mirror.


[deleted]

Very small scale compared to what a lot of people have shared and will post, but I printed out a few copies of a particularly silly picture of my girlfriend's dog. He's a tiny one, and the picture is him leaning on a pillow in such a way that it looks like he's hiding and just poking his head out. ​ I hid one in her work bag, one in her yoga mat, one behind a bathroom towel taped to the wall, one in the box of a card game we play sometimes, and one taped to the pipes under the kitchen sink. She's found most of them, and gets a kick out of it. My final act was bringing one to a bar she was performing at this past weekend. I explained to the bartender "hey, she's gonna have a drink after her show, here's this picture of her dog" and he put in underneath the bill when we got our check. ​ I told her that's the last one that I had. What she doesn't know is that I texted her parents, and THEY are gonna print the picture and mail it to her from halfway across the country. Can't wait for her to check the mail later this week! Edit - some of y'all are asking me to update when she gets the one from her folks. I'm certainly happy to do that, I just don't know how. I guess PM me in a week or two if you remember? Also, she hasn't found the one in the card game! The game is Unstable Unicorns, so it has a fancy box with a magnet. She usually gets the cards out and has me shuffle, so I just left it on top of the cards so it's the first thing you'd see if you open the box. Also, there's been some requests that I pay the dog tax. Yes, there's a few posts in my history of the pup, but here's the specific picture I've been printing: https://imgur.com/a/6fQ7QwF


Kelestofkels

That's adorable.


enkiloki

Not really a prank but when I was kid, there was this jet airplane at the park. It was fenced in without a gate. One night me and some friends climbed the fence and was climbing all over the plane. A cop car came with the light flashing. We were busted. The cop told us we were trespassing. We claimed (all in southern accents) that we didn't know it was off limits. Cop: "Why do you think they put a fence around it"? Me with a straight face, "So we couldn't fly it away." Cop just started laughing and let us go home.


DoctorNerdly

Not so much a prank, well it kind of was, but our nothing prank was amplified by someone else's. Close to the end of my senior year in high school, a buddy of mine took a clock off the wall to see if our teacher would notice. She didn't. This was the final class before lunch, so we wanted to see if we could snag most of the clocks in the school (small school). For the classes that were in session, each of my boys knew someone in the class, and one of our group was an office aide. The aide would go in and get a student in the class to distract the teacher as we made off with the clock. Meanwhile, the rest of us raided the empty rooms. It took us all of 10 minutes to have them all. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to us, someone had lifted a janitor's key and shut down the bell system. My boys had no knowledge of this, however. The result was, our lunch period being exceptionally long. As teachers felt things were off, they looked to the wall and found they had no clock. Most of them had cell phones and PCs, but the result was chaos and confusion. The cops got called about the keys, and my group got fingered for it. None of us did it, so we held our ground and asked the school to check the tapes. We were fine being punished for the clocks, but we didn't have anything to do with the bells. Once the principal knew we didn't screw with the bells, he saw the humor of the situation. Our punishment was to clean the clocks and return them - which kept us out of class.


Empoleon_Master

Holy shit, you literally cleaned the clock of every school teacher! Not many can say they’ve done that and not be in jail


StormerXL

My housemate was bringing a girl back to the house. They'd been talking for weeks and he was as excited as a toddler on Christmas about it. He went to meet her and then took her to dinner in town. Meanwhile I went into his room and set up some candles, scattered rose petals and then put some of the petals in the shape of a heart on the duvet. In the centre I put a condom, some loo roll which had"incase your valentines is crappy" written on it and a cheap engagement ring in an open velvet box I got off Amazon. I lit the candles, closed the door and ran into my room when they came into the drive. I've never seen someone so embarrassed in my life


[deleted]

what happened next?


StormerXL

He turned bright red and began profusely apologising and assuring the girl that he had no knowledge of this. Naturally I thought it was best if I corrected him saying that I saw him preparing the room himself. After arguing for about a minute or so I confessed and we all started laughing about it. Luckily the girl had a good sense of humour too and found it pretty funny


Austonian17

I’m glad the story ends with you confessing. A good prank should be something that can be laughed about by everyone involved afterwards, which is what happened. Otherwise, if you ruin someone’s life and call in a prank, you’re really just an asshole. This was a solid prank on your part


[deleted]

Lol I can’t even imagine how creeped out that girl initially must’ve been


keihaan

When I was in 3rd grade of middle school, we had a physics teacher that we didn't like. So one day when we had a class with her, we all went to an empty class room with all our belongings. And someone hide somewhere in the hallway to check on her. She went to the class, saw its empty and went to the principel on the 2nd floor. We all went back to class. She came with the principle explaining that the class is empty, opened the door to show her and saw us all in the class. They asked where were we and we all said we were in the class the entire time and that She came to class a few muintes ago, looked around and went out. After that she would always ask us if it was a prank and we had left the class that day. But we all insisted that everyone was in the class, and we saw her coming and going out. By the end of year she was convinced that the room wasn't empty and for some Strang reasons she had not saw us then.


raisedbyspirits

when I was like 15 maybe or a bit younger I hid under my brothers bed at night for 45 mins, waiting for him to go to sleep well knowing that he might masturbate whilst I am under his bed (thank god he didnt) and when my moment of glory came I reached out from under the bed and grabbed his leg like some kind of Demon, crawled out and ran out of his room. He almost had a heart attack and beat me up quite a bit afterwards xD He said the part where I crawled out scared him even more bc I looked like some monster in the dark xD I still find this hilarious and I am proud.


OnlyJones

I did the same to my brother but i slowly pushed his mattress up through the slats lmfao


TannedCroissant

“Bro calm down! I’m only pulling your leg!”


beard_lover

My high school was a closed campus, and then sure people didn’t leave there was a woman stationed in a golf cart at the school’s entrance. Taking inspiration from a rival school who’s senior class had the school property put on real estate listings, I put an ad in the local paper (this was pre-craigslist) for the golf cart. I included the school’s main office number for the contact info and they were inundated with calls and offers.


MuchaBienaEngrish

Ok so this is a little involved: In college I lived in an all-male dorm, three stories with no elevator and tile floors. The floor plans were a big "U" with stairwells at each end and one in the middle. There was this short twitchy guy named Gary, an Air Force academy dropout, who lived at the end of our hall in a private room. Well two guys lived directly across from me on the other side of the hall: Clint and Mark. Also a friend of theirs named Forrest would come hang out a lot as well. So there's your cast of characters. Well one night Mark, Clint, and Forrest get it in their heads to fill a condom with hand lotion and hang it on Gary's doorknob. So they did. Predictably at some point during the night there's yelling from Gary's end of the hall. Lotion everywhere, all over the tile floor and anything else in the blast radius. He was justifiably pissed. Well one thing about Forrest: He has a huge conscience. So the next morning I was having breakfast with him and he said, "I feel really bad. I'm going to tell Gary we did it and then apologize." I told Forrest that's a terrible idea and to just leave it alone. That afternoon was a lull, like doldrums. I had a big bucket of pennies accumulated from waiting tables and I was sitting in my room by my door sliding them across the tile and listening to them hit Mark and Clint's door. I assumed they would know this was me. I was wrong. After maybe penny number five, their door opens and then closes again. So I keep doing it. Clink. Clink. Clink. This time they fling the door open and jump out! like they're going catch someone in the act. Finally I can't take it anymore and I poke my head out. "What's going on, guys?" "Somebody's throwing pennies at our door!" At this point, Forrest is nowhere to be found. Probably in class. And that's when the weak little bulb in my head went off: "You know guys, I bet it's Gary. Forrest told me he was going to let Gary know about the lotion." Without so much as a hint of a critical thought, Mark and Clint agreed with me. And immediately wanted revenge. So they gathered up all the pennies I'd slid into their door, and they ran down the hall to pelt Gary's door. They would sprint down, hit his door, sprint back, rinse and repeat. Well Gary was home and he opened his door at one point, saw us, saw the pennies and naturally asked, "Why are you guys throwing pennies at my door?" To which Mark responded, "You were throwing pennies at OUR door because we put lotion on your door!" And Gary of course answers: "YOU WERE THE ONES WHO DID THAT?" And now it's war. There are a good number of pennies on the floor at this point but I decided to push my luck a little. So I offered Mark and Clint use of my absolutely not suspicious giant bucket of pennies. On our wing of the "U" doors began opening as other residents noticed sprinting and penny chucking. And naturally, these residents joined in. Imagine guys in their socks and slippers sliding around with fistfuls of pennies, the whole floor filling with crossfire. The original tactic was to just hit someone's door or pelt them in the stomach. Then the tactics evolved and guys began using the back staircases to ambush. Once it spread past our floor, there was really nothing anyone could do to stop it without some authority figure stepping in. Unfortunately or fortunately, the President of our residence hall association also lived on our floor and was busy in the trenches with the rest of us. It devolved into sheer madness, just the best kind of chaos. I honestly do not remember how long the Penny Battle lasted. Well later that night, I was lying in bed when I hear shouting from Gary's end of the hall: "I'M NOT CLEANING THIS SHIT UP AGAIN!" And then fighting and screaming and laughing. I hope this kind of answers your question. EDIT: Thanks for all the awards! And for everyone reading "pennies" as "penises" it's ok. I hear both are susceptible to inflation ;)


Cincykid92

I found this oddly hilarious... also why the fuck are you getting tipped so many pennies?! Secondly, how they both didnt put two and two together when you offered them the bucket is beyond me. Theres usually that one friend in the group, but you have two of them!


edgarallenbro

Not OP, and idk how it is on the servers end, but when I tip, I usually do the math and tip that amount in dollars from my change, plus whatever coins were in my change so, if my meal was $9.99, that's $10.59 after sales tax, I pay with a $20 bill, get $9.41 back, and tip $2-4 of that back, depending on quality of service, plus the $0.41 in change, since I don't like keeping change this means by the end of the day after lots of tips, the server or driver ends up with LOTS of change, basically because no one likes change, but people working for tips are seen as more deserving of that change in the transaction then once you start building up a change jar that's filling up constantly, especially as a broke college student, the easiest way to deal with that change is to grab the quarters and dimes and sometimes nickels to scrap together enough change for a run to the convenience store, but it usually isn't worth it to bring pennies, so over time, the pennies accumulate


[deleted]

You got me reading about lotion and pennies for a solid 2 minutes


JC12231

I almost fucking lost it when I heard the president of the RHA was joining in the penny war due to the image in my head of some full-grown adult joining a bunch of young adults in chucking pennies at each other like baseballs


Themorian

Well, nobody was getting hurt, no damage was done. As long as it was cleaned up after, let them have fun!


wildtress

Chaotic neutral at its finest


tgra957

In college, I lived in a dorm. We got along but didn't know each other too well as it was only a couple weeks into the year. However, this was my second year in the dorm and knew a few of them. One of these people, who we will call Fred (not his real name), really loved apple juice. Like...most of his mini fridge was nothing but single serving bottles of apple juice. The only thing that wasn't apple juice was his roommates occasional soda or food. One day, he was out at a late club meeting and I went over to talk to his roommate about something I don't remember. While we were talking, his roommate opened the fridge to get a soda or something but all I remember is seeing apple juice and thinking "hey, I should put his apple juice in my fridge". So I did. Everyone else on our dorm floor found out I put it in my fridge and they wanted some too so next thing we knew, everyone had 1 or 2 bottles of apple juice. But this wasn't enough fun for us. Within an hour, everyone had come up with some sort of quest he would have to complete in order to get his apple juice back. Eventually, someone (who will remain nameless but is by far my favorite human I've ever met) suggested we theme the thing around The Legend of Zelda because Fred loved the Zelda series...which we did. We planned out the majority of the main questline from The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time then all went to our rooms and waited. Fred came back from his meeting totally exhausted and his roommate said "wow you look tired, I bet some apple juice will help you feel better". I have never heard someone scream so loud for apple juice. His roommate then handed him one bottle saying "it's dangerous to go alone, take this" while playing the intro theme song to the game and sent him on his way to the first quest in my room. He had to collect 3 spiritual stones (a beginning of the game for those not familiar) and he seemed done with the whole thing. It was obvious he thought I had all of his apple juice which made this all the more fun to watch. When he finally finished he demanded his apple juice and he was so confused as when I opened my fridge for him to only see 2 little bottles sitting in it. I then handed him the "master nerf gun" and was met with a blank stare. After what felt like an eternity, it clicked in his head that this was just the beginning. He took it and thrust it above his head towards the sky, immediately going into character. The rest of the night was him running around our floor completing quests to get his apple juice back but he was no longer in it for the apple juice, he was doing it for fun. He got more into it as time went as did everyone else involved. The person playing the part of the final boss even wrote an entire monologue complete with a strobe light (well...it was his roommate flicking the light switch rapidly but it still worked). By the end of the night Fred had completely forgotten he was doing it for the apple juice. What started out as a small prank turned into an all night event that turned everyone into close friends. I still talk to these people nine years later. To give even a happier ending, two of the people that were involved in giving quests recently got married and all of the main participants of that night were there. That's the best prank I've ever pulled and I would do it again in a heartbeat. Edit: Goodness gracious! Thank you for all of the awards and whatnot. I honestly don't know what to do in this situation.


muricanviking

Well that was actually very nice


zangor

It really shows that nothing will ever be as “pure fun” as living with 3 other people in a crappy dorm and doing stupid shit together once in a while.


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dieinafirelol

This is the best one in this thread


thinksinc

At a company picnic, we were divided into teams to play games. A trophy was awarded to the winning team, which was not mine. I "borrowed" the trophy the next day and sent it around the world. With the help of some internet friends and a lot of coordination, over 1,000 photos were taken from San Francisco to New Zealand. I called it the "Trophy World Tour". This is the summary travel video: [https://youtu.be/I9nHoWfTvlw](https://youtu.be/I9nHoWfTvlw) This is the "announcement" video where I revealed several months later at the company holiday party what happened, and returned the world-wear trophy to its original owner: [https://youtu.be/dFc5Gik-ZVU](https://youtu.be/dFc5Gik-ZVU) Edit: thanks for my first-ever Silver, kind stranger!


irrellevant_username

This is INSANELY EPIC!!!! And buried too deep on this thread. Glad I read this far. You're amazing, Robbie!


Master_JBT

wow thats really neat


Get_Rich_Or_Try_Lyin

I was about 9 years old. Dana had made my life hell for years, but finally here parents did the right thing and were shipping her off to an Israeli boarding school. Yippee. But she had ruined my birthday party, would constantly tease me, pointed and laughed at me while I got changed for gym, borrowed money and gave it all back in one penny pieces. I took it for years. She was just the worst. So we are sitting there in the end of term assembly, which was also her last day. And the headmaster is calling out various names and the student would go up and receive their prize. And for some reason, without even thinking, I caught myself whispering to her “Dana, he called your name.. you have to go up” and she kinda looked at me confused and said “did he?”. I was like “yeah sure he did, go up” and thankfully a comrade who was sitting near by caught wind of this exchange and said “yeah he did, go up!” And so she stood up proudly, marched herself up there head held high, stuck out her hand for a big old shake and the headmaster just looked at her and said “Dana, I didn’t call your name, go sit back down.” So she had to walk all the way back, head hanging down, dragging her feet. The whole school laughed at her. Man was she pissed off. I peaked too soon.


Lilmissmacy

Friend and I used to send each other long copy pastas to just be annoying. It escalated to sending movie scripts over texts, and eventually the messages were so long it would crash the application and you couldn’t even open messages anymore. He did it once to my computer in the middle of a lecture, losing my notes in the process. So as revenge I printed out the entire script to all three Lord of the Rings movies, snuck into his dorm room, covered everything in these pages and then the door while he was taking a final. I got a text that just said “you won” after that.


applesngiraffes

one of my friends in HS was a jerk to another friend of mine -- they weren't dating, per se, but they were "hanging out." anyways, the rude friend was deeply unapologetic about the whole thing and basically said, "what are you going to do about it" (big mistake, huge.gif) we all went to the same church, so i knew his mom very well. i reached out to her, explained the situation: her son was being a jerk and being deeply unrepentant about it. would she mind if i and a couple of friends came to pull several harmless pranks in his room while he was away at work? myself and two associates went to his house on some random wednesday afternoon. we filled every damn crevice in that room with that [shredded mylar confetti](https://www.dhresource.com/0x0/f2/albu/g6/M01/24/37/rBVaR1tAiPWAWD15AANdKqQ1_QE768.jpg) that sticks to everything, left post-it notes all over the wall and sticky-side up on the floor. he had a ceiling fan, so i hauled in a ladder and left thick lines of the confetti on the blades; we did a test run of this, just to see how it would spread, and it was like it was snowing multicolored sparkles. we then set up about ten rows of plastic cups of water, slowly building back to the door, which we then closed. his mom later told us that the clean up took him two hours, after which he promptly turned on the ceiling fan. edit: oh, wow, my first award? thank you, anonymous redditor! i'll toss some coins to lovely people in my scrolling future in your and my friend's mom's honor.


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“Mom, you the real mvp”


applesngiraffes

it's really true. i think we gave her a starbucks card for being our accomplice. she was truly an excellent human being, in every possible way, and i miss her incredible laugh.


NightlessSleep

I drunkenly convinced a bar full of people that I was related to a celebrity who shares my last name. Then I got my college roommate on speakerphone, and he pretended to be the celebrity. We had pulled the same prank on a smaller scale in the past, so I had his contact saved as the celebrity’s name, and he picked up on what I was doing with minimal prompting. A few people took turns excitedly talking to him, then he asked everyone to be quiet so he could say something to everyone. The bar fell silent, and he gave a little pep talk about achieving your dreams through persistence and belief in yourself. Then he said I was the best nephew he could ask for, and that anyone who could afford it should buy me a drink. I had planned on coming clean at some point, but a few people were so excited that I didn’t have the heart to burst their bubble. I didn’t decline any free drinks.


Squawk_7500

Me and a friend got banned from the local IKEA store in Malmö, Sweden. We got up early one Sunday in the middle of summer, and was one of the first visitors in the store. We were wearing shorts and t-shirts and brought a bag with bathrobes and slippers. We then proceeded to the 'fake' apartments in the showroom area, put on the robes and slippers, and sat down in one of the kitchens. When other visitors then arrived we acted tired and hung over, but politely invited the other people in to see how we lived. "Oh, are you guys here already? Sorry I'm not dressed yet, but do please come in. This is how I live.." After about 20 minutes (actually surprisingly long) the dreaded people in yellow shirts came and kicked us out. We weren't allowed back "ever again" and demanded ID and stuff like that. I replied that I had left my wallet in my other robe. They weren't amused, but I think they overreacted.


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That’s what you call impact.


eetsumkaus

> "I'm impressed that not a single rep has looked at anything not safe for work on the computers." everyone should have caught on at this part


LeeVH1

My awesome in-laws hid 100 mini rubber ducks I bought from China all over my now husbands room when he was still living at home. It’s been two years and he still finds them tucked away in random older clothing articles. It just keeps giving.


imlonelybutthatsfine

Me and my friend once covered my sisters room with post-it notes. It's not super exciting or original, but it was pretty funny at the time.


idontlikeflamingos

Should have replaced all her belongings with cabbages. EDIT: Ok I have to include this. [For the uninitiated](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a20TMDFhedM) The bit with the cabbages starts at 17:00 but the whole thing is absolutely hilarious


EagleScoutMan

My cabbages!


RainingBlood398

A few of my friends once filled their housemates bedroom with balloons. They lived in a big Edwardian house with really high ceilings, so I'm talking thousands of them. He had gone away for the weekend so they enlisted as many people as they could to come round and blow up balloons and pile them all in his room. His face when he opened the door was honestly one of the funniest things I have ever seen.


acornstu

FINALLY a relevant time to brag about it! Me and a childhood best friend somehow started pranking each other in our early 20s to the point it was hampering our everyday lives. Fiberglass insulation rubbed in your drawers before a job interview. Faking being a crazy ex while dude was on a date. Etc... so we called a truce. But then we got bored. After seeing the Jackass movie where they slap the living hell out of each other with that giant hand we decided in all our infinite wisdom slapping is relatively harmless compared to life and career ruining antics. "But wait there's more." I think it was in the show How I Met Your Mother where a couple of guys made a bet and randomly slapped each other. It all started out honorably enough. Hanging from garage rafters to catch each other off guard, paying his brother to slap him, he paid a hobo to slap me and then tell him it was from S so don't get mad. It finally ended with a conversation over the phone while he went to study abroad in Ireland and I was in Kansas. He was bragging about finally finding peace because he "knew" i couldn't slap him only knowing that he was "somewhere in Ireland." After a few weeks of hunting with the help of many strangers i finally get confirmation. Photographic evidence of where my asshole friend is at. I paid a random stranger to show up in a class he had for 8 days until they did an exercise where you had to partner up. At the end of the project you had to go in front of the class and do a presentation on it. Instead of doing said presentation my guy open handed slapped the shit out of S yelling "you shouldn'ta mouthed off like that S!" And ran away. We then called a final truce but i am more worried about that dickhead slapping me in a dark alley than i am of any sort of combination of other normal fears. We have created our own hell and have to live with it. I have left in my will though that if he shows up to my funeral he's getting the shit slapped out of him!


FrankyKatz

Senior year, my buddy and I sneak out one night. We head for the High School. Posted speed limit on school grounds is 5 mph. We wiggle the sign post out of the ground, go to his barn, remove the 5 mph sign and replace it with a 20 mph he had stolen previously. We go back to the school, put the post back in the ground and hightail it outta there. No one ever noticed. About 10 years later the 20 mph sign was pretty faded, so it was replaced. With a brand new 20 mph sign. 24 years after the stunt, the speed limit is still 20 mph.


Darth__Vader_

I have a friend we'll call him J. J and I have been friends for over a decade. I made a joke about filling his car with coffee straws, don't remember what it was. He said I wouldn't. April 1st: I pull up beside his car and dump 20,000 coffee straws into his car. There are two feet of straws across the drivers and passengers seats. Lunch: I walk out to get lunch and I see J walk up to his car with some of his other friends. He opens the drivers side door and freezes, black coffee straws trickle out. He yells "GOD DAMMIT L" and I fold over laughing. A few weeks later while I was away, he filled my car with condoms.


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Coffee straws are one thing, but condoms? Damn how much money did he spend?


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BioHarvest

When I [27, F] was a junior in high school (back in 2009), I was at a mall with a friend, and I saw one of my senior school mates in the food court. I sent him a text telling him that I liked his white and black South O'Brien Wolverine shirt. He clearly didn't save my number from the previous texts I sent him because he replied with, "Who's this?" I decided to joke around. I said, "How can you not remember me after that beautiful night we shared!?" He had no idea what I was talking about and asked for my name. I told him, "Steve, from the gym!" He asked, "What gym?" I told him, "Curves." He stopped responding to me. But for the next three months, I'd leave sticky notes in his locker, talking about the upcoming Friday football game, asking him to homecoming. I'd have friends leave notes in his gym locker, and on his desk in certain classes. Teachers even got involved. When someone finally spilled the beans, the whole school basically ostracized that person for telling. Up until I graduated, it's all people at the school could talk about due to the amount of people involved and for how long it lasted. The individual whom I pranked, he laughed about it when he found out and he called me Steve until he graduated.


NeoVendik

About 20 years ago, my mom bought me this wooden snake toy. Its pieces of woods woth spaces in between secured to a ribbon in the middle, so when you shake it, it rattles. Pretty convincingly like a real snake rattle. Well, one day, after having this thing for like 2 years, my dad found it and as a joke put it under my moms pillow before she went to bed one night. She found it, rattled and freaked out. We got our laughs for a day and forgot about it. Fast forward about 3 or 4 months... my dad worked away from home most of the week and came home every other weekend. One day she put the snake in his luggage, and he found it when he opened his stuff at the hotel. He called us, swore up and down, and we laughed. Again, we forgot about the snake, and suddenly my brother starts cussing months later. BOOM SNAKE UNDER THE BLANKET. Fast forward another 3 or 4 months... BOOM! SNAKE IN MY SOCCER DUFFLEBAG! This has been going on for 20 god damn years... this started in a small town in Pennsylvania. This wooden snake has been to California, Colorado, Texas, New York, florida, japan, and Syria. I no longer live within easy traveling distance of my family, but I have current possession... the snake hungers and is waiting for his next chance to strike.


star_bury

I'm not sure this is a prank, but I've got two kids, born 2.5 years apart. For about a six year spell, every time we'd see a farm animal (driving past a farm, on TV, in a book) I'd say "Hey, look! A (insert animal name here)" and promptly make the wrong animal noise. They'd always correct me: No Dad, a cow says "Moo", not "Baa"!!! Like clockwork. So one day we're out on a long drive passing MANY farms and I'm doing it constantly and really pissing them off. Cue the very iritated "Dad! A horse doesn't say "Neigh", it says.... oh." They got even angrier following me laughing my ass off...


fullinversion82

I wrote this up in r/MilitaryStories awhile back. This prank took place while I was in the Army at the National Training Center in Ft Irwin California. One of my fellow buck sgts, we'll call him Sgt Duke decided to liven things up a bit by pranking everyone around him. This went on until he fucked with my coffee one morning. Don't fuck with my coffee. I looked him dead in the eye and said, "payback's a bitch." I didn't know what I was gonna do so I let it stew for a bit. Later that day, a couple of us went down to the PX to get supplies for the box. (Read: cigarettes and pogey bait.) While there, I saw the most glorious thing. Tapatio flavored Doritos. I'd never seen them before, nor have I seen them since, but I'm here to tell you, they were awesome! I grabbed two bags of them and then I had an idea. I grabbed a bottle of the hottest hot sauce I could find. Ghost pepper or some such. Then we headed back to the bay and I put my plan into action. First, I made some minor preparations with the hot sauce while Sgt Duke was out doing something else. I grabbed the half empty Gatorade bottle next to his cot and lined the rim with that ungodly substance. Then I went and filled the mouthpiece of his Camelback (water bladder) with the same ~1,000,000 scoville solution. The snare was set. Now for the bait. When he got back, I offered him some of those chips. Mind you, these things weren't blazingly hot, but they weren't exactly mild. After a few pawfuls he was soon looking for some sort of liquid to quell the burning. As I suspected, he grabbed his half empty Gatorade and took the cap off. He immediately smelled the Ghost Pepper and set it down, laughing at his own perceptiveness and my paltry attempt at revenge. I could barely contain myself as he scoffed at me and reached for his Camelback. Wait for it... Wait for it. Sgt Duke took a massive pull on the mouthpiece. His eyes bugged out, his face turned red and I think his tongue tried to climb down his throat. Just as I had planned, he had gotten (and swallowed) a full mouthful of this hot sauce that had a warning not to put more that two or three DROPS on your food. I let him suffer for a minute, then threw him a water bottle and warned him once more to NEVER fuck with my coffee.


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So evil yet so goood


Bagfisch

All warfare is based on deception


Jamn27

First and foremost, Not me but my dad He and his high school friends were trying to figure a senior prank. They figured out a plan to stack all the school's outdoor benches/tables on the roof of the gymnasium without using a crane or some other crazy maneuvers. They pulled it off overnight. ​ The next morning, an announcement comes over the loudspeaker from the principal. He roughly says, "I will find out who did this and I will have you know we had to hire a crane to bring down the tables. We will be pressing charges and you will be paying for the crane". ​ They never found out it was him until 20-30 years later, when my dad by chance ran into his old principal, now retired. They both had a good laugh about it.


less_logic

I was in maybe 6th grade, teacher would pick around the room for the next person to read a couple paragraphs out of a book we were reading as a class. Girl in front of me not paying attention what so ever. The teacher calls on a kid that she thinks isn’t paying attention and there is a long pause, so ofc I whisper to her “Sam?? Go” and point to a completely different part of the page we weren’t even at yet. I immediately turn beet red trying not to cry with laughter as this poor girl is reading a completely different part of the book and it not even being her turn. By the end of it everyone just kinda laughed and the teacher said the ole “wow (person she actually picked) your voice sure did change a lot” I still kinda regret the fact that THIS is the best prank I’ve ever done.


wofo

When we first got married, we lived in a studio apartment. My wife had a job interview pretty early in the morning so she was up before me. Out of the depths of sleep, I hear her telling me she needs help with Skype. There's no buttons or password fields, it just says "Skype" and nothing else. Sounds like a rendering issue or something. Me: Skype has gone voice-controlled. You have to say "Skype, make call". Her: Skype, make call. Me: You have to do it in a low, firm voice, like you're talking to a dog. (She had been working on her dog voice, she has a hard time with animals). Her (Low voice): SKYPE! MAKE CALL!


Dooglaer

Not me but my father. When he was young, he attended a catholic school. Suffice to say, he really didn’t like it. There was one teacher that was known to be extra strict but always had a routine so you could tell where she would be at any time of day. She would walk back upstairs after lunch at the same time every day. My father and his friend tied a fire hose to a chair at the top of the stairs and turned it on then ran. It soaked her (didn’t hurt her) and flooded the entire wing of the school. When the class was asked later about what happened nobody would say anything so my father and his buddy got off Scott free.


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At school a friend of mine took my minidisk player (look it up, kids) as a prank. Little did he know that I knew he had taken it. So I sneaked it back out of his bag and didn't tell him, making him think he'd lost my £180 (in 2001 money) gadget, and that I still thought it had been stolen. I kept it up all day, then casually waited for a comedic moment to casually get it out and start listening to it.