Best prank I've ever heard of locally:
In the 1980's (pre-cell phone, Blackberry, laptop, Gameboy etc) regular commuters from Bainbridge Island to downtown Seattle would generally sit in the same seats on the ferry every day. They would lift up the seat cushion and stash their novel, cribbage board, backgammon, whatever in the life jacket box under the seat.
Washington State Ferries are symmetrical on the outside but not on the inside, the snack bar and bathrooms, crew room, etc are on one half or the other of the boats.
One April Fool's day the crew turned the 5:30 AM boat around. The bleary-eyed commuters stumbled aboard and had fits finding "their" seats.
Best high-school prank: One of my friends started a prank war involving lockers. Most people could easily get the combo to a friend's locker by watching them open it. It started with filling the locker with confetti, then garbage, then bottles of beer, etc. My friend, who started the war, lost big time when a couple of guys attached a two-man life raft to the back of the door of the locker, and wired the C02 cartridge to the back of the locker. He opened up the locker and PSSSSSSSSSSSH! the raft inflated in the hallway.
Best work prank was one I did myself, again in the late 1980's. I dictated a letter to a fake company, all about how we were going to replace our dictation transcriptionist with voice-recognition software. After I signed off on the letter, I said on the tape that the transcriptionist should read the first letter of every sentence. The letters spelled "April Fool". Alas, 18 years later, the joke has now become reality! She still has a job but not as many hours.
In the 1980's (pre-cell phone, Blackberry, laptop, Gameboy etc) regular commuters from Bainbridge Island to downtown Seattle would generally sit in the same seats on the ferry every day. They would lift up the seat cushion and stash their novel, cribbage board, backgammon, whatever in the life jacket box under the seat.
Washington State Ferries are symmetrical on the outside but not on the inside, the snack bar and bathrooms, crew room, etc are on one half or the other of the boats.
One April Fool's day the crew turned the 5:30 AM boat around. The bleary-eyed commuters stumbled aboard and had fits finding "their" seats.
Best high-school prank: One of my friends started a prank war involving lockers. Most people could easily get the combo to a friend's locker by watching them open it. It started with filling the locker with confetti, then garbage, then bottles of beer, etc. My friend, who started the war, lost big time when a couple of guys attached a two-man life raft to the back of the door of the locker, and wired the C02 cartridge to the back of the locker. He opened up the locker and PSSSSSSSSSSSH! the raft inflated in the hallway.
Best work prank was one I did myself, again in the late 1980's. I dictated a letter to a fake company, all about how we were going to replace our dictation transcriptionist with voice-recognition software. After I signed off on the letter, I said on the tape that the transcriptionist should read the first letter of every sentence. The letters spelled "April Fool". Alas, 18 years later, the joke has now become reality! She still has a job but not as many hours.
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