What harmless pranks have you pulled?

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Told dh there was a huge mouse in the room and I had trapped it under the metal bin

and there was…..a computer mouse!

Ive also done a massive leak in the toilet….cue to an actual leek

and there’s water coming from the toilet! It’s all over the floor….in cups

I feel exhausted just reading these.

When I was about ten I saved the previous week's Saturday paper and swapped the covers so my mother had the right cover and the wrong inside. It took her a surprisingly long while to notice despite it being April fools day...

Years ago, a friend and I drunkenly pinched someone’s garden gnome, and kept it for about a year. We sent postcards from all of our holidays to the house we stole it from, from the gnome.

Then we put him back.

@NormasArse I love this!! 😂

Anyone who has to live with OP and the tedious, unfunny "pranks" has my sincere sympathy.

"Pranks" are just a way of enjoying making someone else look or feel stupid, aka "bullying".

This I like! 😃

Oh for heavens sake. It’s a bit of fun! No one gets hurt, and my dh finds them just as funny

So, like the film Amelie, but without the intention of tempting the father out of his self-imposed isolation?

If your DH finds them funny, fine. I wouldn't because they’re so contrived. "Pranks" make me shudder (apart from one-off April Fool ones).

We couldn't be married...

This all sounds very.......

God there are some boring sods on here - me and DH are WFH today, I will be pranking him with my computer mouse later OP thank you for that!

One April fools years ago I pranked my kids with Hartley jelly in their cup instead of juice. I had a straw in there for effect too.

I haven’t seen that!

At the age of nine, I blindfolded my brother, and told him he had three minutes to find a teddy in the garden, and I told him if he was warm or cold. I was holding the teddy, so I could keep moving around and making him cold. It was more than ten minutes before he realised! I'm sure he got his revenge sooner or later.

To be be honest, I'd find that quite stalky and overbearing - knowing that I was being repeatedly targeted in that way. Maybe it's an introvert thing.

Even though you were just having a laugh, you had still deprived them of something that they'd bought/been given for their home and which obviously brought them pleasure.

It was quite likely an inconsequential thing that they just liked for a bit of kitsch value; but for all you know, it could have been their late grandad's treasured possession that they liked to look at every day at because it reminded them of him; or they could have an anxious young child who liked to 'confide' in it and offload their concerns.

I think it's always risky - and not a kind thing to do - to play a prank on somebody whom you don't know very well and thus can't know whether or not they will find it as funny as you do.

We were young and thought it would make them laugh. They had a lot of gnomes. We made a little sign that said ‘gone fishing’ and sneaked back and stuck it in the ground where the gnome had been.

I wouldn’t do it now. We were in the middle of A-levels, and I’m 59 now, so neither perpetually drunk, or impulsive.

I hope they liked the postcards though.

Wear a dark coloured cardigan or jacket that has Po keys and place a white or light/bright coloured cotton reel in the pocket and thread the end through a place on the outside of the jacket or cardigan so that it looks like a loose thread stick to your clothing.

When someone goes to remove it for you they find the thread keeps going and going as the reel unravels.

Not particularly amusing for adults but the children when small used to love it.

Another one is an elastic band around a the cuff of a jacket or coat so that when they go to put it on they can’t push their hand/arm through. Not seen that done since the 1980s!

Bloody hell. This sort of thing would really annoy me. I'm obviously not the prank sort

Well, I think the heroine gives it to a friend who works as cabin crew, rather than dashing around the workd herself, taking Polaroids of the gnome with the pyramids and the Taj Mahal etc.

I loathe pranks.

I know you will say I am a fun sponge etc but I don't think humour at someone else's expense is funny at all.

I also hate ppl saying "it's just a joke" "you have no sense of humour" etc.

Mean spirited, juvenile and tedious. And very very un-funny.

I did the leek under the sink thing for the kids as an April fool once. And blue food colouring added to to milk to pretend it was posh whales milk from waitrose.

Sticky googly eyes on eggs and fruit in the fridge one year. But that was more cute than a prank.

I saw a video on TwiX with two people at McDonalds. One of them got up to get a serviette or go to the toilet or something and the other one jabbed the straw from her drink through the foil lid into a full ketchup pot and then put the straw and ketchup into her drink - thus she had a good sip of what she thought was coke, but it was actually ketchup

I must admit, I did laugh; but I hope it was a scripted setup, as it would be really unpleasant irl.

Nail on the head. Just another form of bullying! And the bullies can then make more fun of the poor sod on the receiving end if they react badly. It's only "bants" after all! So they claim to try to justify their bullying!

I absolutely detested those "prank" TV and radio programs in the 80s and 90s, i.e. Noel Edmonds, Jeremy Beadle etc. Making fun of other people is never acceptable. Thank heavens the mainstream media don't make it prime time viewing any more!

Not a prank as such but DH will sometimes draw rude things on the bananas I take to work. He does it very randomly so I never realise until I get the banana out at work, stick it on my desk and see something really stupid and juvenile - which I love and makes me laugh! 😁

In retaliation, I'll pull his trousers down as he walks up the stairs (pyjama bottoms only really work for this!)