To ask what the meanest prank or trick someone has played on you?

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I'll start. When I was a teenager someone found half a dead cockroach and buried it in a plate of chips whilst I had gone to get a drink. I came back and started chatting to them and eating chips but not looking at my plate. I didn't eat the cockroach thankfully but actually had it in my hand and poised ready to eat it when I noticed the gleeful/horrified expression on their face, looked at what I had in my fingers and threw it on the floor whilst retching. I felt sick! (And threw my chips away because they had been contaminated)

A guy rang me up and told me I'd won the premium.bonds. I was young niave and he was very convincing. I was gutted he had actually phoned to ask me out. The bloody fool.

Oh some of these really gutted me :(

I'll give one which was a bit of an unintentional prank but hopefully a little lighter. Not mine but a friends.

Their Dad was a heavy smoker. One day when they were kids, friend and bessy mate from next door decided they would collect all the fag butts. They were quite little, and enjoyed 'posting' the butts into the air vents in dad's car. Apparently they got quite the telling off when the next day dad turned on the engine and the vents, and got a faceful of fag butts....

Some of these have really bothered me.

Yellow, your poor son!

And the little boy whose Christmas cards were ripped up.

It's astonishing how cruel children can be, quite instinctly.

My brothers were notorious for pranks growing up. One brother put a load of slugs in my other brothers bed when they were atound 7 & 6. Brother climbed into bed everything seemed fine. Slugs crawled over him. He freaked out and ran down to my mum. Guilty brother threw the slugs back out the window. My mum thought it was a bad dream until 3 years ago when my brother admitted the truth... 20yrs later

The brother got revenge for a different prank a few years later by tricking the other into drinking febreeze. He had drank the lemonade and replaced it with febreeze. Brother came in and drank it. In between gasps of choking and calling my mum, he punched the crap out of him. They kinda slowed done in their pranks for a while after that one. Made them less toxic

One of the pranks that always gets talked about amount my friendship group, was the aftermath of a party. I dropped some washing up liquid in my friends kettle before I left to go home. I didn't drink, didn't smoke, didn't do drugs and wasn't interested in relations so party wasn't the best night out lol. My brother stayed over and got up the next morning, hungover, and put the kettle on. Freaked out asking if the kettle was supposed to bubble 😂
I had swapped the kettle with an old one they had in the garage so there was no damage and her parents never knew about the party or the potentially damaged kettle

Some of these are so cruel and nasty. Wtf is wrong with people?

The pranksters in my family are just kind of time wasters. Just stupid and annoying, I just don't react any more.
Example:
Me: Would it be alright to just get the kids a drink of squash please?

Bil: Sorry, we don't have any squash.

Me: Oh OK.

Bil: Only joking, it's in there.

Me: sounding bored OK cheers.

Just time wasting.

blubber those "pranks" are the ones that baffle me the most. It's either an incredibly, incredibly, subterraneanly simple level of humour, so low as to be undetectable by human intelligence, or it's a slightly nasty form of humiliation: implying that you were "stupid" to believe the lie, even when it's so banal there's no way on earth you wouldn't. I remember people doing that to me a couple of times when I was a child and it made me very anxious. I hadn't quite mastered the bored expression yet!

I mean, how simple do you have to be to think "we don't have any squash" is a worthy punchline?

Babysitting about 25 years ago, with my boyfriend.
Boyfriend wants a drink.
Little boy I was looking after kindly got it for us. It was urine.
Boyfriend, grimacing, "that's nice, what the hell is that"
Little boy, laughing maniacally "it's piss, it's f*ing piss"

His parents used to pay me very well.

My ex pulled a blinder on me once....
Pretended to love me, got me to move 200 miles away from my family so he could retrain as a teacher, convinced me to have another baby then left me and our older child when I was 5 months pregnant with twins for some silly slapper he'd met on facebook. That was a pretty cruel prank!

Nb: Before anyone has a fit over me slamming the woman he cheated with, she was aware we were together, that we had a child and that I was pregnant.
His choice and his fault but she's still a low excuse for a human.

When I was about seven or eight my brothers decided to play hide and seek. One brother decided to be really helpful and suggested I hid on the garage roof. I could get up but couldn't get down but he promised to help me after I'd won.

Three hours later he finally came back with a ladder. I wasn't a quick learner because I fell for it again up a tree a week later 😂😂

I laugh about it because we were always screwing each other over as kids. I'm pretty sure I deserved it at some point or other. I was always guilty of bursting into "tears" and accusing him of hitting me etc when I wasn't getting my own way.
We're the best of friends now.

11 years old and at senior school where all the local junior schools had joined together and were meeting for the first time.

A girl who'd been at two of the local schools (including mine) and who I classed as a friend told me to ask this rather shy looking boy how his little brother was. She said he'd find it funny that I'd know his little brother.

I asked him.

His brother had died several years previously in a car accident.

24 years down the line and this prank still devastates me. I feel sick thinking about how much I must've hurt that poor boy.

I've never been a fan of pranks.

Blue

On a school trip we were in the airport when they made an announcement about unattended luggage. One of the older girls (2 years older than us) started pulling my suitcase and saying "here's an unattended bag! Who knows what's in it! Haha!" and there were staff nearby so I started panicking. She was like 🙄 "it was a joke". She knew none of the younger group had ever flown/been in an airport before. Just, why??

When I was about 11/12. A "friend" told me a local boy had a crush on me. Barely knew him but she would tell me stories about how he had seen him on X road and blanked him and be was upset. I became paranoid about missing him and upsetting him again so was always on edge.

Progressed to him standing outside my house, speaking to my dad, mum having to tell him to leave (I wasn't close to my parents so they wouldn't bother to tell me/I couldn't ask) had been taking photos of me etc. To the point I was seriously concerned I had a stalker and feared every time I was out that I would see him or any time I was near a window that he would take a photo. I began making plans for every situation i.e. if I spotted him crossing the field on the way home I would hide in the woods. Went on for months with me making plans for every situation, becoming obsessive about it.

She breaks the news in front of other "friends" that it was a joke and I should have known it because why would someone fancy me. Years later I found out she played the same prank on him at the same time and he feared I was the stalker. Unlike me who kept it from anyone, he told his friends. Who then distanced me and refused to hang out with me as I was the crazy stalker. Ruined my early teens as no one would befriend me and refused to get to know me. My mental health took an nose-dive and I didn't recover for years and left me with OCD.