What harmless pranks have you pulled?

[Soubriquet]

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

Hear hear!
As a teacher I’ve heard so many playground bullies whining "But it was just a joke! Hasn’t he got a sense of humour? Can’t he take a joke?"

I hope you punish them properly for their bullying and follow the school's bullying procedures!

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

Regardless of whether you both find that funny or not, it's a very dangerous thing to do - not unlike pulling out a chair that somebody is about to sit on, so they end up smashing their coccyx on to the floor instead.

@NormasArse
Did he take a trip to Weymouth?

Mumsnet has gone totally killjoy lately. Can nobody see this is intended as a fun thread? Previous threads about this have happily run to hundreds of replies. Now the very first reply has sealed its fate.

That’s exactly right, yes. Amelie does it to persuade her reclusive father to travel. She also pranks the grocer to punish him for being cruel to his assistant: swapping his slippers for smaller ones, swapping door handles, swapping toothpaste with foot cream, and others.

@Soubriquet I would find that absolutely hilarious. I might use the mouse trick at work. 😂😂😂

Last year we froze ds’s (then 6) wellies in a block of ice. We thought he’d think it was hilarious. It was the wrong day for April Fool’s because he just burst into tears and it wasn’t really funny at all. (Thankfully, he does think it’s funny now). 😂

Nope, not a fan of pranks. Each to their own I guess.

My ex gf was/is a very masculine dressing woman, short hair, traditional men's attite etc. She has a bright white large dog. I'm very 'girly' in comparison and I'd always threaten to dye the dog pink and would say how cute he'd look.

Ex went on holiday with friends leaving me looking after said dog. I got a computer geek friend to photoshop dog to look as if I'd dyed him a beautiful shade of pink, and sent the photo to my ex saying 'sorry darling, I just couldn't resist, doesn't he look beautiful!?'

One of the guys at work always left his stuff all over the table, tape measures, pens, gloves, protective eyewear etc.

One day I found some double sided tape in a cupboard so taped everything he owned up the wall and onto the ceiling. Even down to the coins he had on there.
It did sort of backfire as when I was off he filled my locker entirely with packing peanuts....

My parents went on holiday so I let myself in with the spare key and added googly eyes to all the condiments/butter/wine etc that was in their fridge

Oh my god!! What was her reaction?

I agree. There are other more intelligent forms of humour!

”..they could have an anxious young child who liked to 'confide' in it and offload their concerns”

😂This is the best MN “maybe” hypothetical situation I’ve ever seen

Sounds pretty pointless, but ok … 🙄

🤣😂not a happy one! I did come clean fairly quickly!

This really made me laugh

Were you the people who 'borrowed' the gnome feom a garden in the Gloucester area? That one had postcards etc and made the paper.

I'm terrible for pranks. And it's rubbed off on the kids. My partner joins in. My last big one was using permanent pen to number tiny yellow plastic ducks 1 to 50, then hiding them across my parents home.

I need a different prank for this year. But it has to be something harmless like the ducks which should occupy both parents for a while.

We wrapped every single thing in our managers office in Christmas wrapping paper on Christmas Eve. He was speechless

payback for the time he emptied every hole punch over my desk and in my desk drawers

Girlfriends and I regularly used to put tampons (unused, obvs) in the beer of men who were chatting us up on nights out. They had such a shock when they realised. It's utterly hideous and really not funny, but we found it hilarious at the time. (This was 30 years ago).

Not quite a prank but subtle revenge.

In my teens i was seeing a lad who's family thought they were better than anyone else's and his mum said something rude about my now late mum.

They lived in a big semi and all the bedrooms had landline phones as well as downstairs.
I went in a unused bedroom and picked up the phone and dialled TIM the talking clock but let it off the hook.
I went calmly downstairs and told him i was going home.
That evening i phoned him to say i didnt want to see him again.
Just over a month later i was in the local tesco with my mum at the till waiting to pay. He stormed over to me and said it was you wasnt it you evil cow. I said what was me. He said my mum and dad had a massive phone bill thanks to you i said i dont know what your talking about.
My mum said what was all that about i said i dont know but someone called "Tim" upset him.
I walked out of tesco with a big grin that day.

All these pranks just make me feel irritated.
Must be getting old.....

This is so silly and harmless I can't believe some of the other comments. You sound like a laugh OP, don't mind the buzzkills

Sometimes when my DH is making his phone make noise because he can’t find it, I put it in my pocket and sneak around the house 😂 He says I’m predictable and tries to act stern but he always cracks a smile!