Being it's All Fool's Day, I thought I share some pranks I've been involved in over the years. Feel free to share yours.
Prank 1: I used to work at a place that made polyethylene water tanks. One of my coworkers, a real easy going country-farmer type, had a three hundred gallon water tank mounted in the back of his pickup. Once a week or so he'd get a hose, put it in the tank and would go back to work while it filled up with company water. At the end of his shift, he'd drive out to his property in the country and use the water to supply a trailer he rented. One day while he left the hose running filling the tank, I got three coffee cans, used filament tape to attach the three cans together about two feet apart and then wrapped the tape around his rear axle. Then I set the cans on the axle. At the end of the shift, he puts the hose away, gets in the truck and starts to drive off. About half way out of the parking lot, one of the cans falls off, which pulled the second one off, followed by the third one. ker_KLUNK! ker_KLUNK! ker_KLUNK! He hits his brakes hard, the water surges forward and I thought for a second that the tank was going to go through the back of the cab! He gets out, walks around to the back of the truck and looks underneath to see what the problem was. When he sees the cans, he just stood up and looked around to see if anyone was watching. I, of course, was hiding. As I said, he's a pretty easy going guy, never got mad, just chuckled about it.
Prank 2: Weeks later, same guy, same truck. Again, while the tank was filling up unattended, I put one of those "auto-foolers" on his #1 spark plug. What these things do is when you start the vehicle, it whistles, smokes and then bangs. At the end of the shift, I got in my same hiding place and waited for the fun. Only thing is, it didn't go off! Guess the joke's on me. Two weeks later, I happened to be in his office and I nonchalantly asked him, "So, Bob, how's your pickup running?" He points a finger at me and says, "YOU'RE the SOB that put that thing on there! I wasn't going to say anything to anybody, hoping someone would eventually say something. I was wondering why my truck was running so bad but never bothered to look under the hood to check things out. Then one day when I was in town, I came up to an intersection when the light turned yellow, and I stepped on the gas to get thorough it. THAT'S when that damned thing went off! Scared the hell out of me, I though I blew up my motor!"
Prank 3: Years later, different job and the prank is on me! After working for this Company A for four years as a Microcomputer Support Specialist, I had found a job that paid better and had hours better suited for my needs, teaching computer classes at a local Jr. college. Two days before my last day of work, I hear a page on the PA to come up to the front to pick up mail. Nothing unusual as our satellite sites would often send a diskette with a corrupted data file that I had to fix. Once I got up front, there's no package but rather a certified envelope - from the college that I was going to go work for! "What the hell!", I thought, "They've got a lot of nerve sending something to my workplace, quitting or not!"
Irritated, I went back to my desk and opened it. Inside the letter had some bad news, very bad news. The letter stated that it appeared a grievous error had occurred. It stated, apologetically, that they had several interviews going at the same time and through some miscommunication, it was determined that someone else was offered the job first and had accepted! Therefore the position had been filled by someone else and I had no job! Nor would I have one in two days!
"Oh SHIT!", I thought. "This can't be for real." Thinking it through logically I realized it's April 1st. But this can't be a joke - can it? Certified letter, the college's letterhead stationary and envelope, and signed by the person who interviewed me . . . it made sense that this could be real.
Then my colleague in the cubicle next to me pops her head over, sees my distress and says, "It's a joke, Heywood." I was relieved but couldn't calm down and laugh about it for at least half an hour. Five of my coworkers were in on this joke, including the lady that interviewed me at the college. She happened to be very good friends with someone at Company A. Paybacks are a bitch!
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We had a member who loved his pickup truck but otherwise was a horse's ass.
One time we jacked up the rear axle on blocks with the tires about 1 inch off the pavement, then we waited. He accused us of every scratch he could find but we had used an axle jack with a pad so he just looked foolish.
Another time we took a lot of the little bits from computer program punch cards, yes it was a long time ago, and poured them down the defroster vents. That was the gift that kept on giving for a long time