Wow! It’s Wednesday! Happy April Fools Day!
So I admit that I’m just no good at April Fool’s Day.
As it turns out, I just don’t have the organizational skills or attention span to pull off a really good prank, so save for the time that the Tyler House Seniors took and hid all the chairs in the dining room, I’ve never been part of a great prank. And even that one’s a little suspect, b/c people were really mad about not having chairs at breakfast. And then even when we left them a note about where they were hidden, they were upset about having to haul a chair back into the dining room in order to eat. I don’t want to accuse Smithies of not having a sense of humor at breakfast time, but let’s just say, we seniors were the only ones who found that prank amusing, and we also ended up feeling bad for the kitchen staff who complained somewhat bitterly as they brought the chairs back in.
That’s what they don’t tell you about pranks. For every great pull, there’s some poor worker(s), who has to clean it up. And that leads to after-prank guilt. That’s why not everyone is built to be a good prankster.
Still, have any of you guys ever pulled off a really great prank? Let us know in the comments.
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Just a quick note… when you know you mom always comes running into the front door after work and heads straight to the bathroom, don't put saran wrap over the toilet bowl….. you get grounded that way…
Just a quick note… when you know you mom always comes running into the front door after work and heads straight to the bathroom, don't put saran wrap over the toilet bowl….. you get grounded that way…
i'm the worst at this day but there is someone in our office who was pranked pretty good. on his desk right now are scads and scads of dixie cups stapled together & each of them filled with water. teehee.
i'm the worst at this day but there is someone in our office who was pranked pretty good. on his desk right now are scads and scads of dixie cups stapled together & each of them filled with water. teehee.
I do not remember that happening at all. I was either so traumatized that I've wiped it from my memory, or I slept in that day and they were all back by the time I made it to the dining room. Or I'm old and my memory is going. It can't possibly be THAT.
My friend's kid got up before everyone and switched the cereal around in all the boxes. My kids, instead of running to their dad when he got home, went and hid as quietly as they could so he would think they had run away. That is the extent of my April Fool's experience this year.
I do not remember that happening at all. I was either so traumatized that I've wiped it from my memory, or I slept in that day and they were all back by the time I made it to the dining room. Or I'm old and my memory is going. It can't possibly be THAT.
My friend's kid got up before everyone and switched the cereal around in all the boxes. My kids, instead of running to their dad when he got home, went and hid as quietly as they could so he would think they had run away. That is the extent of my April Fool's experience this year.
hahaha! i love the cereal trick. and don't worry, Anne, you're not getting old — but you did graduate a year before i did, so you weren't there for the trick.
Aren't you a '99, too? I started as a '98 but took a year off and then was really scarce my senior year, because I was working 30 hours a week, student teaching 20 hours a week, and doing a full course load. More than once I had '99s ask me if I was back visiting and I'd be like, "No, I live down the hall from you…"
I am a '99 and I totally forgot that you were still in the house — though apparently you didn't help out w/ the prank. I'm wondering now if I was one of those 99ers that asked if you were visiting…
hahaha! i love the cereal trick. and don't worry, Anne, you're not getting old — but you did graduate a year before i did, so you weren't there for the trick.
Aren't you a '99, too? I started as a '98 but took a year off and then was really scarce my senior year, because I was working 30 hours a week, student teaching 20 hours a week, and doing a full course load. More than once I had '99s ask me if I was back visiting and I'd be like, "No, I live down the hall from you…"
I am a '99 and I totally forgot that you were still in the house — though apparently you didn't help out w/ the prank. I'm wondering now if I was one of those 99ers that asked if you were visiting…