If I’m part of a group and the conversation turns to pranks, jokes and horseplay, I never have much of anything to offer. I’m not a fan of pranks. I don’t like to be embarrassed, or to embarrass others.
But there was this one time…
In my early twenties, I was a restaurant server. It was hard work, I think everyone should have to do it for six months. Anyhow, we had a microphone in our alley (the area of the kitchen where you’d make beverages, pick up salads and breadsticks, and grab the entrees) that was used to call for items that needed to be restocked. You’d hear a lot of requests for “Back up salad” during the night. Well, the veteran servers used to ask the new hires to call for the items. The new hire would grab the microphone not knowing that someone had placed a small container of water on top of the microphone. When they’d grab the microphone, the water would fall and splash them.
Not very funny. But the only real “prank” that I can recall ever being a part of.
Are you a champion prankster?
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No one will ever accuse me of being a prankster but I love to hear the stories!
At my last job I was a team leader on the weekend shift. We all had a lot of fun and the entire shift were very, very hard workers but we always knew how to squeeze in some great fun too! Being on the weekend there were no upper management around so we could be more playful than regular 9-5 shift. Once we wrapped a co-workers car with pallet wrap, took them forever to get it off. Another time we took someones car and parked it at the edge of the lot with a for sale sign in the window. best of all was when my husband jumped up on a co-workers car to moon them through the windshield, slipped and fell right through the wind shield. ..What a mess…yes he would freak if he knew I told this story ahahaha
No I would not call my self a champion prankster, but I have wrapped a car in exam table paper but before we wrapped it all up like a present we uses surge lube under the door handles and I put black graphite in the lock so that when they did finally get into their car through the paper their hands would be all slimey and black.
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I don’t think I’m a prankster — I always preferred to come up with ideas and let someone else execute them cause I was too big of a chicken!
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I am not a very good prankster or joke teller but I love a good laugh even if it is at my own expense.
I’m not a prankster, but my BF and his friends are. Some of the things they do, i cant even believe it unless i saw it. They are like 30 year olds stuck in a 10 yr old body! lol
I’m not a good prankster if it involves tricking someone, because I’m a terrible liar. I can do the kind of prank that doesn’t involve an eleborate set-up, like “decorating” a co-worker’s office while they’re on vacation. But I only get involved if I know the person being pranked well, and if they’re they kind of person who is amused by that kind of thing. Some people are NOT into getting pranked, and that’s fine too.