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!!!

My dad, who has always been something of an arsehole, once faked a heart attack when me and my siblings were young. It was a very dramatic display of clutching his chest, falling to the ground and gasping for breath. I remember being absolutely terrified. He jumped to his feet and started laughing as soon as my mum went to dial 999. This was just the tip of the iceberg of a lot of cruel and shitty behaviour from him.

i told my brother that my 30th was smurf themed . even sent him photos of a smurf cake and decorations in the run up. he showed up painted blue, white shorts and white hat. it was actually "roaring 20s" theme and everyone else was in pearls and flapper dresses. except papa smurf.

I hate practical jokes and pranks with a passion.

Some of these are just mean

OMG these are awful.

When I was 16, I wrote to a minor celeb, which I now cringe at but you know, was star-struck and all that. To my surprise, he replied with a lovely signed pic and a really nice letter - I was so happy. A few weeks later it was Valentine's day and to my shock, through the post I received a card from said celeb. In hindsight it was ridiculous, but I was over the moon. I told my friends and of course immediately wrote back a lovely letter thanking him for the card.
Turns out it was my friends - they'd gone to such lengths as practising his handwriting and having the card sent on from someone in the same location as this celeb. I was beyond mortified and it really opened my eyes as to how unkind people can be.

Someone threw a tarantula skin at me once - it didn't end well...

Some of these are absolutely awful, abuse disguised as a joke.
When I was a teenager, I lived with my then- boyfriend’s family for a summer. They lived in the highlands and used to get huge spiders coming in. I am petrified of spiders and they used to take great delight in catching them in Stork tubs and chasing me round the house with them.
I’ve also had somebody deliberately pull a chair out as I was sitting down, so I landed on the floor quite heavily. I remember trying to pretend to laugh and disguise that I was actually in pain and almost in tears. Nowadays I would hit the roof.

@ElfAndSafeKey and @swirlygirl
Your stories bring tears to my eyes. Cruel pranks from friends etc is one thing, but your own father..

God these are hideous.

Mine was when I was around 15, school disco. Non of the kids were dancing just all standing around the edge of the dance floor. A friend dared me to ask the DJ for a request so I trotted across the dance floor. Some cunt of a lad ran up behind me and pulled my skirt and pants down to my ankles baring my arse to the entire school.

They found it hilarious but at 15 I never got over the humiliation.

When I was at my first year at university (600 miles from home) my sister phoned me to tell me that my horse was dead. I'd had him since I was 14 and we'd been through a lot together.

It was only a minute later when she started giggling that she told me it was a joke. I was devastated.

On what planet is I even remotely amusing?

My daughter coming into my bedroom and saying
Omg there an alligator in our swimming pool
Was so disappointed when there wasnt
I don’t think there was one of my Florida friends had a alligator in their pool
One had a scorpion in her shoe, another a snake in her air conditioning unit.. neatly chopped into one inch pieces
And we all had raccoons in our bins... but no alligators

Circus

I hope they got what they deserved

Jesus

Omg bored

Just awful

When I was an unhappy, lonely teen, there was a teacher I had a crush on in school. I confided in my parents and they thought it was hilarious - loads of jokes, teasing etc. One April Fools day they called me downstairs and told me he had phoned to speak to me - took the receiver and it was just a dial tone, then turned around to see them standing there laughing at me.

As a matter of fact he was already speaking to me secretly by phone by then, because he was grooming me and several others at my school. I kept it a secret from my parents because I was sick of all the teasing (and obviously didn't have a clue what grooming was).

When I was six my Nan told me to get dressed and put on something lovely because my dad had phoned to come see me. I hadn't seen him since I was a few months old.

I put on a dress (i hated them) and was so excited, I was beside myself. I ran into the living room to her in fits of laughter, and she said "And just who would make the effort to see an ugly little thing like you? Go and take that dress off, and go away"

Oh God. I'm nearly in tears reading these 💔

@checkerbabes I'm so sorry. That's just awful.

alexafindfilms you are not a nice person.

When the school bully gave me a birthday present of a used sanitary towel all nicely wrapped up like a real gift and gave it me in dinner hall and said open it so all her cronies saw

@alexafindfilms - I think you have missed the tone of this thread - lots of posters describing humiliating pranks (like being told the wrong costume for a party, so you look like an idiot) and saying how upsetting it was - and then your story of doing exactly that to your brother, with a grinning emoticon.

God some of these are awful @checkerbabes that’s just plain abusive.

Some of these

I was about 13, had a text from a boy who lived in the next village, saying he'd got my number off a mutual friend and really liked me. We chatted for ages..I was bullied a lot and he gave me a reason to feel happy, he made me feel beautiful. We finally agreed to meet after months of texting. (This was late 90's so no idea about catfishing etc)
Anyway we finally met, I was terrified, so nervous, and spent so long getting ready. My mum and sisters knew and were so happy for me. Mum drops me off, I walk up to the front of McDonald's to about 12 of my year group rolling around laughing. They'd gone to the trouble of buying a pay as you go phone and SIM card, such was there dedication. For about a year after they would ask 'Hows Luke?' etc
I never got over it for the rest of school.

9h my god @checkerbabes that made my blood run cold. How absolutely awful.

Not a prank on me but on my husband. He had recently returned from a tour of Afghanistan and went to visit his parents afterwards. His Dad thought it would be funny to wake up really early and go outside...then set off loads of bangers outside my sleeping husband's bedroom window. Hilarious