To ask for your top pranks please..

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In the title! Had great Mumsnet inspired success over Christmas (taps nose) & now need some pranky inspiration to build on my success please.

When I worked at a car parts place I got asked for some spark plug gaps once, I had a little car knowledge so I couldn't quite work out if he was joking or not!
DS did the screenshot of DHs phone once, dh is a bit of a luddite so it absolutely flummoxed him, I think DS was about 4 at the time!!
I like the giant B idea though, unfortunately DS is very literal so he possibly wouldn't get it.

We once sent someone to office services to ask for staples for the copier, s bottle of elbow grease, some holes for the copier that could produce punched copies, and a long weight. They gave her a (very) long weight, then provided the staple wire and told her that they no longer stocked holes and elbow grease was on back order . . . all of which she solemnly reported back to us.

Not the sharpest knife in the toolbox!

Do lots of searches on their computer for antique dolls. That way, all their targeted ads are for creepy dolls.

You can also turn the screen sideways on a windows computer - ctrl, alt and an arrow key in the direction you want the screen to be.

I've done a leek under the radiator before too.

For kids - put Googly eyes on everything in the fridge.

I got our CEO involved in an April Fool prank a few years ago. We sent an email around the company saying that we had to seriously save money....all air conditioning would only be on for one hour per day, no heating in the winter - we had to wrap up warm. Kettles being boiled at certain times etc.

It was hilarious...nobody would say a word to him. We had little groups of people huddled in corners bitching, but smiling when he walked past. We kept it up for a few hours but couldn't stop laughing at them all.

Shatners LOVE the beach. Totally bonkers and really made me laugh. Chased these are great. Off to buy googly eyes...

Someone at my sixth form college once 'borrowed' a For Sale sign, put it up on April 1st outside the college gates, which he had padlocked shut - so we all arrived to find the college shut and up for sale!

My father was a bit of a prankster in his youth. So much so that he was considered a bit of a trouble maker at college, so was put on the corridor in the student accomodation that all the trouble makers were put on - the theory being that they had two staff sleep on that corridor too, and that would keep the worst of it under control.

A new member of staff was put on that corridor, and was overheard saying that he was not going to lock his door because 'The men respect me and would not tamper with my belongings'. Oh how wrong he was.

A couple of nights later he came back from a night out, and switched on his bedroom light - only to find the light came on outside the corridor window, over a flat roof - and his whole room had been moved out there and laid out perfectly.

When he stormed down the corridor demanding to know who was responsible, all the men replied that they had too much respect for him to dream of doing something so bad. And he had to accept that it couldn't have been any of them, before they'd help him get all his furniture back into his room!

In high school we borrowed a for sale sign from an estate agent and got the caretaker to put it up just inside schools gates early Sunday morning. It was the talk of town before school started on Monday.

A few years earlier my parents were trying to get me into the school and they wouldn't have me (stupid religion issues). One night my father drove past the school and saw the gate unlocked so he came back with a padlock. We went past the next morning, all the students and teachers were in the car park and the governor were running around blaming each other. Nasty but was funny after being tutored at home for a year.

That's wierd. Just refreshed and read SDTGs comment

Spooky!

My ex once pranked the staff in his halls of residence after a night out - he and his friends managed to dress an entire corridor with a set of road works signs, road narrowing, keep left, men at work, and various cones.

Apparently it was taken with good humour.

A road sign amnesty later that academic year apparently led to the reclaimation of enough signs and cones to pretty much fill a parking space in the car park.

Few drops of blue food colouring in a bottle of milk. Removed the label and re labelled it 'blue whale milk'! Confused my kids a few years ago (and backfired on me because they refused to go anywhere near the blue milk!)

Speaking of colours, I don't know if this counts as a prank exactly, but I've "had" a lot of American friends with the White Cliffs of Dover area looking as it does to reflect the national flag colours ... red soil. white cliffs, blue water

Occasionally one will ask why red soil would appear white on the cliff face, which gives me the opportunity to mention the contract which Dulux have to keep it painted that way

This is why I miss corded phones!
You tie a tiny bit of string round the wire, so when someone answers the phone, they would lift the whole thing up! Also you could put a bit of tape over the hang up button thing so the phone would just keep ringing when it was picked up!

Best prank ever was from school. Some of the upper A level students managed to print off some very official looking letters stating that the following day was a non school uniform day and handed them out in the afternoon as people were leaving school.
A lot of kids ended up being sent home for being out of uniform and all the A level students, even those who had nothing to do with it, got a massive telling off.

I'm thinking this year I'm just going to do something simple like swapping dh's and ds's socks and pants over. Dh is so groggy in the morning I suspect it will take him a little while to notice!

Some of the sixth form (not me, sadly), 'mummified' one of the teacher's cars with loo roll. Not the most sophisticated prank, but I found it hilarious at the time. Not least because one of the other teachers told me that they had put them up to it .

In halls after a weekend away, I came back to find my room waist deep in screwed up newspaper. Some very patient friends had posted hundreds of individual sheets of paper under the door in my absence!

Post someone an envelope crammed full with glitter. Superglue their wheelie bin shut. The classic "laxative in their drink" routine. If you've got their bank details, set up a shit load of direct debits from their account. Apply for credit in their name to wreck their rating, especially if you know they've got a mortgage application coming up.

Juvenile enough?

About a year ago I hid under the bed Wilst oh was in the shower. When he came into the bedroom and sat down I grabbed his ankles and screamed 😂
Thought he was going to end up in the loft he jumped so high 😂😂😂

Kids have a habit of nicking my cans of diet coke if I leave one opened lying around.

One day I drank half and then pierced holes above the level of the drink so that when they drank it tipped all over them, but as I knew where they were I put my thumb over them when I drank and they couldn't work out why it kept spilling for them and not me.

Used to send the newbies out for a bucket of steam and a glass hammer. A group of friends used to prank each other. One family went away on holiday so they bricked up their front door, then took up the sitting room carpet and laid turf. Another prank when a family were away was to advertise their home in the local press complete with photos embellishing the blurb with indoor swimming pool, at a ridiculously low price and putting their home number on the add. Those were the days. The tons of fertiliser delivered from the local stables were useful for the roses though.

Cigars the phone ones made me laugh so much! Ladymadness I will do that if only under my bed had space. These are all so funny though I draw the line at Barina (hopefully you are not my sister in disguise!).
And the coke ones - hilarious. Thank you all had a hectic day at work and these have cheered me up no end!