To ask about pranks you've played?

[Mummyto2munchkins]

Lighthearted thread.

What fun pranks have you played on someone?

My previous clinical director was always making jokes.. So I brought a 'fake' scratchcard and left it in a Christmas envelope on his desk. On the back it said how to redeem it and as we had an Irish girl working there he was convinced it was her as it said about a leprechaun.

So have any of you guys done any fun pranks?

I put packets of condoms into old ladies' shopping baskets when they weren't looking one day, I'd have loved to see their faces at the till.

Also filled flatmate's room with 2000 balloons one night when he was out

2000 balloons sounds fun.

My brother put cling film over my toilet seat once. Luckily I noticed before it got messy!

Also, at work, everyone should be locking their computers when they leave the desk for security reasons. If they didn’t, I’d go around turning their desktop screen view upside down. It was amusing when they came back!

The kippers and second mouse one are brilliant.

The mouse one reminds me of one my husband did to me recently. The kids and I were in the playroom, merrily singing along to festive songs we'd chosen through Alexa. At a certain point in the song, it would just go off or the volume would drop to almost zero. We couldn't work out why, I had my phone out trying to go through the app and everything. I was convinced the machines were fighting back after a while.

Suddenly my husband appears in the doorway almost crying with laughter. He'd been doing it via his Alexa app the git. Still makes me chuckle remembering it.

The computer one reminds me of being at college. I minimised all the windows on my friends PC and laid them out beautifully on her screen. She almost had a fit when she came back. She didn't know you could shrink the window size. I thought she'd roll her eyes and maximise them again. Turns out she didn't know how (this was the 90s).

In my last two jobs cleaning and a shop we would jump out trying to scare colleagues

And a few years before when doing tannoy announmemts at a tourist attraction you had to do silly things to try to make them laugh

Dh and I were staying in Goa and the room opposite us there were two lads that came home every single night about 2-3am swearing, shouting and banging around. After a few nights I politely asked them to keep it down and I was met with an absolute (foul) mouthful of abuse. Dh appeared behind me and the lad sort of crawled away. Anyway it didn't get any better. So one night after they'd gone out dh took my nail glue and squirted it into the padlock of their room (there was no proper lock on the doors just a padlock) The rooms were part of a complex but not attended by staff until the morning so when they came home that night they couldn't get in their room, they went mad for about an hour and couldn't work out why they couldn't get in, they eventually went to sleep on the hard marble floor outside their room, it was joyous! The next morning the staff had to snip the lock off, we did feel quite bad then so we gave an extra tip when we left to cover the padlock.

I tucked a leopard tail from the dressing up box into DH's waistband as he was heading out to do a food shop.

That blood one doesn't seem too funny. Especially not even on Halloween itself!

user1471517900 yeah, maybe not to most people, but my ex and I had the exact morbid sense of humour. I probably would have only pulled that stunt on him. He could be a dick sometimes, but man, was he ever funny.

like @WontYouDance we used to flip the screen of anyone leaving their computer unlocked

oh, and pictures of Nicholas Cages face on the optical part under peoples mouses... don't know why Nick Cage, and don't know why it was funny, but it was!

When I got my first mobile phone I had great phone repeatedly ringing the house phone and watching my brother run to answer it, and then hanging up just before he got there.

When we were students, and living in halls, I stuck a photo of a player from the rival team to the one DP supports on his bathroom mirror. Took him ages to find it, but he was highly amused. We then used it again on a friend's mirror - he was convinced I was totally innocent in all this!

Few years ago, working in a nursery, I put Nutella onto a clean nappy and pretended I was eating poo. (There were no children around, I hasten to add). My colleague's face was a picture!

I was given a pack of joke letters years ago to send to people. I sent one to our NDNs allegedly from the council saying they had a plague pit under their house which needed to be so the house would need demolishing. Very gullible husband had hysterics.

He also fell for one of those Christmas joke letters where multiple strangers are planning to come and stay.

Plague pit needed excavating

Silly ones. Me and dd filled dh's shoes with Hama beads and the like.

In the olden days GPO ( telephone) engineers used to use a callback system to check the line they were working on. The phone would ring but no one was on the line. One of my uni housemates got hold of this number and had hours of fun prank phoning the rest of us. All but one housemate twigged after a couple of calls but one dozy member of the household didn’t. To this day he probably thinks there was a strange woman trying to get hold of him through his uni years.
The rest of us would stand chatting her before handing him the phone. We tired of it eventually.

Pranks are a form of bullying. They are not funny and often embarrass people

Few years ago, working in a nursery, I put Nutella onto a clean nappy and pretended I was eating poo. (There were no children around, I hasten to add). My colleague's face was a picture!

This has tickled me

Putting condoms into old ladies shopping baskets is a fucking horrible thing to do. What did you get out of that?

Maybe I'm a sad act but I don't find any of these funny.

When I was young, we used to shovel dog shit into a paper bag and set fire to the bag. It was hilarious watching people stamp it out.