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Cathlete
...on a coworker or friend? Shelley's healthy level of insanity post just remined me of one of mine.

My DH is an extreme practical joker & has all sorts of props. One of these props is a little gray mouse with a tail that will move rather life-like if it's moved the right way.

Well, once I put that mouse in my friend's drawer at work where she kept her purse & I forgot all about it. Later that day, I was in a patient room doing an EKG when we all heard a loud, piercing scream. My patient asked me what happened. All I could say was, "I think I have an idea." I was standing above this patient applying the EKG leads & it was all I could do to keep from just cracking up & having tears & snot run down my face over her. Apparently, when Belinda opened the drawer to get her cigarettes out, the mouse tail moved just right & scared the heck out of her.

That was one of the best laughs.

Marla
 
Well, are you going to elaborate?}(

Actually, like I said, I'm not at all the practical joker in my family, it's DH. Watch out around Halloween.

Marla:D
 
It's long....We were having my family over for DH's B-day. I told him to go outside and clean up the dog poop. My sister brought over this pumpkin pie filling. I went outside and out some on my shoe. We all gathered in the house. I said..."What is that smell" I then told everyone to look at their shoes...as I thougnt someone stepped in dog poop. I then looked at my own shoes...(the pumpkin pie filling) and yelled at my DH..."Why did you not pick up the dog poop" I was livid...so I reached down and took some off my shoe (much to his dismay!) with my finger...he started saying..."Don't touch it!!" and I then put it in my mouth and said...."It was Willie" one of our dogs. They of course we all started laughing, except for my DH...he didn't eat Pumpkin Pie for about 2 years...:)...Carole
 
Thanks Marla....it was all my sister's idea. No arm twisting though. It can be done on anyone....:)..Carole
 
The bad thing is I keep expecting him to get even with me...http://bestsmileys.com/eek/3.gif[/img]....Carole
 
Carole that is hilarious!!! :7

It reminds me of a similar prank one of my coworkers played on another coworker. They were on a trip visiting a landfill - it was a big customer who has a lot of our equipment. While in the landfill offices, "prankster" finds some pizza being served for lunch and decided to play a little trick on "prankee". He takes a piece of pizza and puts it in a ziploc bag, and hides it in his coat. Later on, the two of them go out for a tour of the landfill grounds. "Prankee" is feeling a bit queasy already, probably from the smell of the landfill. "Prankster" has the piece of pizza planted on the trash heaps up ahead, and when they get to that part of the landfill tour, "Prankster" pretends to just find this piece of pizza in the trash, picks it up, takes it out of the ziploc bag and proceeds to eat it. "Prankee" is so grossed out, he throws up all over. Well, at least it was a landfill - not like they had to clean up after him!

These are the kind of people I work with. I guess if you have to travel to landfills on a regular basis, it helps to have a sense of humor. ;)
 
Emily.....that Prankster does have a sick sense of humor...gotta love it!!!..http://bestsmileys.com/lol/13.gif[/img]...Carole
 
I loved to play practical jokes when I worked, When it was close to the 4'th of July, I bought snaps and set them just perfectly under the toilet seat so when someone sat on it they would get a little scare LOL.
That started the whole joke thing going on. There was this one girl that loved to play them but couldn't take them, so we all got in on this one, I bought a rat, had it in a box, gift wraped it and had it at the desk and someone called her up and she was so excited and eagerly opened the present, and then all of a sudden her face went white, she put the box down and ran out screaming, we all were laughing. of course we gave the rat to someone who loved them so the rat didn't get hurt in this joke.
 
I love practical jokes, and when you have a husband who works in a Fire Department they are full of them.

The best, most recent one, was a trick played on my brother in law. I should tell you right off the bat that he is a big guy, and Italian. This means LOTS OF BODY HAIR!! Well, he was going in to get a vasectomy, and we told him he needed to shave down there. He said that it was not on his prior instructions. I went on and on about how hair is a breeding ground for germs and that is the last thing you want when cutting that area of your body, any infection. You have to be clean as a whistle.

My sister called me crying with laughter because she said all she could see through the glass door was him hunched over and working away. Every so often he would call out "Blade!" like a surgeon. He went through 4 of those suckers, and was cleaner than a baby. Top to bottom, front to back. Not a hair in sight!! My sister said it was the funniest thing she ever saw. He even did down his legs a bit...scared of any infection I guess}(

So, he goes in to the doctor and is all happy. The doctor pulls back the sheet and says "Wow!" My BIL says "Yeah, I thought I could save myself some money with you not having to do all the work" and he was so proud of his job too. The doctor told him that they have not had guys shave in years, but that he did the nicest job of anyone he had ever seen. Except that he has missed one little tiny hair exactly where the incision needed to go, to the doctor clipped it.

The funny thing is that he didn't know it was a joke until much later. My husband waited until just the right moment, after much itching and scratching, and said "Remember when we told you to shave...."
 
Someone played that mouse joke on me many moons ago . . . back in the days of typewriters. He put one of those furry cat-toy mice inside my typewriter, and when I hit the letter K, that mouse came flying out of there like his tail was on fire. Yes, I screeched! And yes, I did get sweet revenge . . . with a plastic spider Scotch-taped to the wall. Unfortunately, he swatted it with a fly flapper, picked it up with a Kleenex, and threw it away, never knowing that it was a plot.

Shari
 
One of my colleagues put a (cleaned!) rubber roach in the sugar jar (for coffee). I didn't see it because I don't use the sugar (or drink coffee), but it's been a running joke for a while. We forgot to take it out when we did interviews, so ended up offering a candidate the sugar jar with fake roach (a sure-fire way to see if the person is what a former prof of mine called "clubable", that is, do they fit in with the general mood of the department?)
 
No not at this time, Everyone likes to play them on me. Dh knows better after he scared the **** out of me when we first married:) My son taped rubber snakes to the inside of the washing machine lid. He had a good laugh. Once when I was taking a shower I was washing my hair with my eyes closed, I screamed when I opened my eyes. There was a face over the top of the shower. Scared me to death.
Diane Sue
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On my husband's birthday, I attached a sign to the back of his car that said "IT'S MY BIRTHDAY. HONK AND SHAKE YOUR FIST AT ME." Good thing he doesn't have road rage. Plus it didn't take him long to figure it out when I started laughing after a few people doing it. I'm not a very good prankster.
 
So, Diane Sue who's face was that or was it a mask. That would scare the dickens out of me too.

Dani, that was too funny. Actually, you are correct about the risk for infection. I hope your BIL did get a discount.;-) :D

Loonette, its starting to become very clear to me, how you got your username that is.}( :p :+

Kathryn, some of the greatest practical jokes are the ones you don't work so hard at. When you're not expecting something, that initial response is fight or flight. Or in this case, puke?

Marla
 
Marla....you know by starting this thread...you have given us pranksters alot more to think about trying...http://smilies.sofrayt.com/%5E/8/winking.gif[/img]...Carole
 
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