The meanest joke/trick anyone has ever played on you?

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I randomly got thinking about this event which led to my second story below and I wondered if it would make a for a good thread.

My first cruel joke was when my husbands workmates arranged the Christmas night out in a nearby city. We were going out in fancy dress, to a comedy club and then staying over. They decided we would go in fancy dress, the theme being the 70s. DH and I bought our outfits and when we turned up to the meeting point we discovered it was a joke on my DH and noone was wearing fancy dress until later in the evening. I got change into my 'next day' clothes which being in my 20s and being someone who made an effort was smart but as a young Mum who didn't go out much or ever stay away, I was robbed of a change to get dressed up nice for the earlier drinks.

The second story was on my wedding day. Our two photographers were DHs friends. We went for a shoot away from the venue in the back of one of their cars and they gave us a scratchcard as a wedding present. I scratched it and we had won £10,000. Everything went in slow motion, we were 21 and this would allow us to put a deposit on a house and start our married life off really special. It felt really magical to win that on our wedding day. A minute later they started giggling and I realised it was a fake scratchcard.

I'm glad to say none of these pranksters are in our lives anymore!!!

There are awful. I hate pranks Andy practical jokes. Why are they funny, other than excluding the victim? Of course someone is going to act excited if they think they win money, act panicked if they think they are lost, etc. Why or how is that funny? And someone being “pranked” and falling for it sure sounds like a far nicer human being than some cynical joyless person who presumably upon winning money in a scratchcard would instantly suspect a fake.

There used to be a candid camera tv show in my home country. I hated it. Stuff like people acting increasingly oddly in shops while the sales assistant tried to help them. I used to feel so sorry for the next genuine person with eg autism or who would not receive the same level of assistance from the shop staff for fear of being victims of a prank.

It’s nasty and bullying.

These are hideous, nothing funny about any of them at all. Sorry that you’ve had these shitty people in your life.

Yup, my OH had the scratch card one from his brother. He was so excited, offered to spilt it with him and would have been amazing for us. It was in with a few other ones so didn't look suspicious, gutted when we found out (looked at the back and told to collect it from a fairy) and quite deflated.

OH can see the humour now and I get it but still think it's pretty mean, especially as it was his birthday present.

I still remember the physical feeling of how out of place I was like I was completely alone but was in a sea of people.

When I first started work and was very naive I got a Valentine card via the internal mail purporting to come from a work colleague that I’d confided in another colleague that I fancied. It looked like it had come from the department he worked in and said something about hoping to see me at a pub we both frequented. I made a total fool of myself over it. The colleague I’d told I fancied him never admitted to having sent it even though I asked her outright - and she eventually married him!

M ex bf told me he didn't want to be with me any more. I was really upset but accepted it. The next day he texted me that 'he was only joking'. I was so fucking angry that I promptly dumped him! And I wasn't joking.

My aunt opened my exam results and told me I had failed. (I was away from home). I hung up when she told me she was joking. She wanted me to apologise for hanging up.

She's still waiting.

At boarding school one of the boys insisted on giving me a can of apple juice he just didn’t want. It was open and I was So Naive this makes me die thinking of but Obviously he had peed in it!!!!!!!! And they laughed and told everyone.

I’ve never told anyone that as I’m too mortified 🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈

These are so horrible!

Not anywhere near as bad. In my teens friends were pissed off that I’d been spending loads of time with my boyfriend, and pretended that one of them was pregnant.

I loathe pranks.

Did anyone see Kelvin from Strictly had 'pranked' his dad the week he did the northern soul dance? Told his dad he wanted him to be part of the opening bit of the dance doing his best northern soul dancing, poor bloke practised, got his hair cut especially etc to be told he was only joking. It make me feel really sad inside for his dad.

Yes, thought that was v nasty.

I HATE pranks. I think they're so cruel. It's not funny to distress somebody and make them upset. People who do these pranks must have no empathy at all.

@StopMakingATitOfUrselfNPissOff I came on to post the same thing. Apparently his Dad is pretty shy but was prepared to do it for Kelvin. When the Dad was practising his dancing Kelvins wife recorded it on her phone and they shared around the family as their joke and telling the Dad he'd been had. Put me completely off him.

Nothing as bad as most of these!

Boy asked me out in school. I really, really didn’t like him and kept saying ‘no’, but he literally begged. In the end I said ‘ok, fine’ because I felt uncomfortable and sorry for him. Turned out it was this big dare from his mates, who all thought it was hilarious that I was expecting a date 🙄

I’m so cross that I didn’t stick to my guns and tell him to sod off. I actually see him semi-regularly as his DD is the same age as DS. If he ever tries to talk to me, I will probably reference it.

I’ve got the scratchcard one too. Its not funny.

These are awful, what arseholes some people are.

I had one a few months back where someone pretended to book in for a big party at my new business. I was thrilled! And then absolutely mortified when I realised it was someone winding me up

These are not pranks! These people are hideous!

I was a shy, nervous teen with a squint that I was very self conscious of. My mother would call me ‘cock eyed’ if she was annoyed at me and my father wasn’t much better, he’d tell me to look at him when obviously I couldn’t. They angered my confidence and I always felt I was ugly and never good enough.
I never had a valentine card whilst most of my friends did, one year I came downstairs to a red envelope on the mat with my name on, I still remember the excitement and nervousness as I opened it. My parents were all smiles and ‘ooh you have a card’ etc. I then recognised my fathers distinctive writing and realised it was a ‘prank’.
As a 14 years old, over 30 years later I still feel the crushing disappointment and embarrassment that my own parents could do this to me.
25 years later and after many knockbacks I went NC with the pair of them.

I was an extremely shy child, never had many friends, but was relatively close with these two girls. We had like a disco at school one day and they offered to do my make up. I had never used or owned any make-up then. Naive as I was, I agreed. They giggled throughout the process, never let me use the mirror to see what I looked like with make-up on. I was too naive to suspect anything. People gave me strange looks while the three of us were walking to school, don't know why my mum didn't see me, she was probably at work. Teacher gave me a strange look as well but didn't say anything. Everything became clear when I went to the toilet a while later and looked at myself in the mirror. It was absolutely awful, I looked like a hooker. Felt so humiliated. Still remember it 30 odd years later.

As opposed to BoJo the clown hiding in a fridge? @recrudescence

There were some girls at school who were either bullying me or acting like my friends. I had a horrid home life and was desperate to fit in with them.
One day they came to school and gave me a bottle of bodyshop lotion as a present saying they'd been mean and regretted it. I was delighted and overjoyed.
I took it home and didn't have chance to use any that night.
At school next day someone cane up to me to tell me to throw it away. They'd gotten an old bottle and mixed up loads of things like hair removing cream, bathroom cleaner and moisturisers and given it me as a present.

I've never told anyone that before. I cried endless tears over those girls. But that one episode seems much nastier than the others.

These are so sad people can be so cruel. for everyone who was humiliated or made to feel small

Fuck me, some of these stories

The sheer cruelty of these people

You know the ones who audition for X Factor and are terrible but genuinely think they are good.

I often think they've been manipulated like this.