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Pranking

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We had our first church handbell rehearsal last Thursday, and welcomed some new players. During some after-rehearsal snacks, the conversation started on gardening. Two of the new players, a married female couple, said the rains this summer really helped with their zucchini crop, but they had too many now. We advised them to take the excess to the food pantry. Another veteran bell player told the story of moving to a small Idaho town where her husband was a Luthern pastor. They were quite solemnly warned to keep their car doors locked at all times in the summer and fall because people would stealthily deposit unwanted excess zucchini if the doors were unlocked.

We have never been the recipients of excess zucchini until last Saturday, when I found a nice big one on the front steps. I highly suspect the new bell ringers of pranking us with the zucchini. Since it is a bigger one we plan to shred it and make zucchini pancakes. Just wait until our butternuts are ripe! The new bell ringers may be in for a surprise on their front steps.

When was the last time you were pranked or you pranked someone? What would you like to leave surreptitiously on someone’s yard or front steps?

16 thoughts on “Pranking”

  2. donald is who comes to mind. dog poop in a burning lunch bag on the front steps ring the doorbell so he stomps out and meanwhile i go around and ring the back doorbell. he would have to clean the white house floor of all the dog poop he tracked through the place.

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  3. I did once leave a zucchini on the neighbors’ front steps – it was August 8, “National Sneak Some Zucchini onto Your Neighbor’s Porch Day”. This year husband didn’t plant zucchini, but we have a lot of tomatoes (with tough skins) that I take everywhere in case someone wants some… so I guess it’s not a prank.

    As a little kid, I remember May Basket Day – leaving a little packet of some treat, ringing the doorbell and then running…

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  4. Almost weekly, I prank those scam callers. Going along with their scheme is entertaining.
    “Did you place a $1367.44 order for a computer at Amazon?”
    “No, I placed a…let me see…Just a minute…Here I have it. I placed an order for $13,670.44 for 10 computers. I haven’t received them “

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  5. Rise and Shine, Baboons,

    If anyone has seen Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recent social media posts, he is imitating the felon’s all caps postings. They are very funny and are said to be getting under somebody’s skin. SAD! He must have hired a skilled media team with a sense of humor. Those are high level pranks.

    My zucchini is producing nicely this year. I like to pick them small though. The big lunkers really are a challenge to use up. The small ones I use in combination with cucumbers, onions, and peppers to make refrigerator pickles.

    I have been cleaning nooks and crannies of the house recently. We have a lot of old electronic equipment I would love to leave on someone’s front steps. Old CD players, power and connection cords, defunct ipads and phones, and two old laptops, etc.

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  6. I’m downsizing as I move. I have lots of things I’d like to put on someone’s doorsteps, but I’m not sure those “gifts” would be welcome.

    There are times I’d like to leave grammar and spelling lessons on people’s doorsteps. Especially those in power. For Pete’s sake, if they can’t spell or construct a sentence properly themselves, how is it okay for them to criticize those who are learning English as a second (or third) language! Anyway…

    My old friend, Pam, pranked me good once. We stayed at Lutsen Sea Villas once during a year when there were huge fires near the Boundary Waters, and there were burning bans. There was a fire pit where we stayed, which included a metal ring, and it was available to guests. It was in the middle of a courtyard area, with a large stack of firewood nearby. Lutsen, right next to Lake Superior, wasn’t anywhere near the fires, but it was dry. Pam wanted a fire. She wanted S’mores. She wanted the fire badly. So we went out and built one. She was terrified that we were going to get into trouble. We sat down around the fire, and some people from Australia joined us for a while, then they left. Pam and I continued to enjoy the fire. A car drove around the circle and parked nearby. I could see the driver was on his phone. He wasn’t even looking at us. Pam freaked out like he was the fire gestapo; she thought he was going to take photos of us and turn us in, so she poured a gallon of water on the fire, and ran for our villa. I was laughing at her.

    We went to bed. When I got up in the morning and went down to make coffee she came out of her bedroom looking at her phone. In a very worried voice she told me that she had received a text that we were being fined $1500 for careless behavior of starting a fire, and that it would be on my credit card since I was the one who reserved the villa. I had my doubts, but I remember thinking that I’d handle it if it was true. She did have me looking at my phone to check my account balance to make sure I had enough money in there, and to see if they had actually done that. Nope. When I looked, she started laughing at me, saying that I looked so shocked. I should have known she’d do this. She loves to think up ways to prank people. It was funny and we still laugh about it.

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  7. A tradition at my high school was a Senior Class trip to Chicago. We stayed two nights at the Palmer House Hotel. Both nights my bed was short sheeted. My roomies blamed it on the maids, which at the time I naively believed. I’m quite sure either my roomies or their friends did the deed but even as recently as my 55th class reunion last weekend they still denied it.

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  8. I invited our minister to my bachelor party. (It was a pretty tame party).

    At the wedding rehearsal he said he might look familiar to some of them. Then he said he was at the party. “And I remember who you are and what you said.”

    It was a story that he loved to share.

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  10. Back in my Software Etc days, one coworker (Ann) and I consistently teamed up against Alan. We did a lot of fun pranks usually with the help of my friend Brian who was the admin in charge of the building. My favorite one was after Alan made some comment to Ann about how she had the wrong size waste basket for her level of employment. We filled up Alan‘s office with trash cans of all different sizes from up on the storage floor and Brian used a dolly to bring in a big massive trashcan — the kind that usually sits outside of buildings and we wedged it into a corner in Alan‘s office. It was hysterical. Especially because Alan was always surprised because he always locked his office at night (as if he had something special in there) but Brian had a key to every lock in the building.

    This is the same Alan of egg carton fame. He is currently in possession.

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