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

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StarShop · 15/12/2019 16:10

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!!!

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joyfullittlehippo · 15/12/2019 21:46

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Itis6oclocksomewhere · 15/12/2019 21:48

I've had the scratch card trick played on me. It was a few years ago and it was a secret Santa. Our eldest daughter had been seriously ill and my marriage wasn't in the greatest state. I had apparently won £25,000. I just remember feeling relieved that it would make life so much easier, but then I heard a snort of laughter from the corner of the room and I realised it was a prank.
Horrible trick to play on anyone. Feel so sorry for others who have also had tricks played on them.

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Itis6oclocksomewhere · 15/12/2019 21:51

I've had the scratch card trick played on me. It was a few years ago and it was a secret Santa. Our eldest daughter had been seriously ill and my marriage wasn't in the greatest state. I had apparently won £25,000. I just remember feeling relieved that it would make life so much easier, but then I heard a snort of laughter from the corner of the room and I realised it was a prank.
Horrible trick to play on anyone. Feel so sorry for others who have also had tricks played on them.

Itis6oclocksomewhere · 15/12/2019 21:52

So sorry for posting twice. It told me that it hadn't posted first time round Confused

Tigerty · 15/12/2019 21:52

Long time ago now, the office queen bee wanted my job. She organised the Christmas do and arranged to meet at a certain place. I wasn’t local so drove quite a way to go out with them all. Except she changed the meeting place, and told everyone else. Which meant I was stood on my own at night waiting for everyone to turn up.

She shrugged it off when I next saw her while none of others could look me in the eye. Bastards.

When I left she applied for my job... and didn’t get it. I laughed a lot.

paintedfences · 15/12/2019 21:54

@Swirlygirl if it helps at all this random internet stranger wants to scoop up nine year old you and give you a massive hug and take you away from the horrible man. I'm sorry. Thanks

captainprincess · 15/12/2019 21:54

@Mynxie that is so sad. I couldn't imagine letting a small child down like that Sad

HouseworkAvoider10 · 15/12/2019 21:56

Bloody hell - what arseholes they all are.... Sad

Tigerty · 15/12/2019 21:56

The meanest was my exH. I was heavily pregnant and we were at the Lakes. We got a rowing boat and when we were in the middle of the lake he insisted that we swap seats and that I needed to get up and move around him.

I protested and he got aggressive so I stood up - and the boat started rocking precariously. I sat down in tears while he laughed and laughed. Shit head. Glad we’re divorced.

TheBucketResidence · 15/12/2019 21:57

Sagradafamiliar Jesus Christ, that is absolutely horrendous! Shock What an evil thing to do to someone.

Sagradafamiliar · 15/12/2019 22:00

Honestly, I have no idea what was going through her head. I'd like to say it was completely out of character. Looking to navigate Christmas then go NC. I still feel quite sick about it.

hippo, those are such sweet pranks :)

So many stories here hurt my heart a bit and that includes the scratch card ones. They are so cruel.

TenPenceMix · 15/12/2019 22:03

I came on to say our honeymoon suite had been trashed but that seems nothing compared to some of these stories. Human beings are fucking nasty sometimes

Sparklesocks · 15/12/2019 22:04

When I was a kid I had a friend, C, who was nice but quite insecure and would sometimes throw me under the bus.

Once on a school trip I was sitting in front of C on the coach. She was sitting with a girl in our class, R, who was a bit of a dominant personality and C was always desperate to impress her. A bit into the journey time C patted me on the shoulder and asked if I wanted a wine gum. I said yes please and she passed me a single sweet which I gratefully ate.

C and R then started giggling hysterically saying they couldn’t believe I’d eaten it. Turns out they’d found the wine gum on the floor of the coach and never thought I’d actually eat it! They then told everyone I ate things off the floor.

I ended up calling C a bitch and got our friendship group to freeze her out - which was quite mean at the time but I was fuming!

BrigitsBigKnickers · 15/12/2019 22:08

Someone told me to ask a student friend how his grandmother played the piano. He told me his grandma had no fingers and then stormed out in tears. It was obviously a joke which as a naive 18 year olds I fell for.

38 years later I can still feel the humiliation. This was the tip of the iceberg- the person who instigated this was a nasty little bully who picked on me mercilessly ( this was at uni not school.) She is now a highly regarded clinical psychologist/ therapist... wonder how many victims of bullying she deals with.

Bitch. Angry

daffodilrosedaisy · 15/12/2019 22:08

There was a tiny ladybird larva on my pillow. Thought it was cute so took a pic and put it on Facebook (my friends like nature too). Went off to work (not allowed phones), came back to a load of comments on the post (some from people I didn’t really know) saying how it was a nit not a ladybird larva and I ought to take it down to spare me the embarrassment. I was horrified - nits are my absolute worst nightmare!!! Turns out my boyfriend at the time had pulled a mean prank on me, and had been messaging other people who he knew I didn’t really know (and neither did he!) to make it seem real... it was just a ladybird larva... he’d put me through A LOT of angst thinking I’d a) got nits in the first place and b) put it on Facebook for 400 people to see unknowingly! Bloody idiot haha

thenightsky · 15/12/2019 22:12

Reading this has made me understand how and why Stephen King came to write 'Carrie'. Sad

ScrommidgeClaryAndSpunt · 15/12/2019 22:12

We had an office prankster at a place I worked about 20 years back who (among other things) used to set people up with the "Mr Angry" fake call thing. Given that we dealt with a lot of stroppy people over the phone because of the nature of what we did it wasn't remotely funny. Oddly enough he wasn't well liked for this.

Nothing compared with the sadism some of you here have experienced though. I will never understand what some people find funny about utterly humiliating others.

AnniePankettonne · 15/12/2019 22:13

I had the fake Valentine's cards .

I also had a new Mum leave a phone message as she was in trouble and needed help urgently. It was an LGBT helpline.

Spacebowlisback · 15/12/2019 22:24

@Swirlygirl That is horrible! I’m so sorry.

MsAdorabelleDearheartVonLipwig · 15/12/2019 22:26

I was bullied in high school and some of these are making me absolutely cringe for you all. Flowers

Havaina · 15/12/2019 22:29

All the people telling @alexafindfilms that she is 'vile' and a 'nasty piece of work' are actually being nasty themselves, because you have no idea if this is normal or not in her family. Maybe her brother did the same to her the year before or they are a family of pranksters.

jamesforagirl · 15/12/2019 22:29

I received a beautiful bouquet of flowers at work from a guy I was seeing, I really, really liked him and he was a minor local celebrity, so everyone knew him. Later that day my best friend phoned me and I was telling her about the flowers. I heard lots of laughter. She was at work, her and a few colleagues had sent them as a joke and I was on loud speaker in her office. It was humiliating. My heart still races when I think about it. Bitch.

EasilyDistracted77 · 15/12/2019 22:29

I absolutely detest pranks, whether being played on me or on somebody else, they are never funny. It comes from a childhood full of little tricks being played on me by my stepfather. The one that sticks out is being sent to the shop at age 11 or 12 for some 'elbow grease'. I couldn't find it anywhere so asked a shop assistant where I could find it. The smirk was what told me I'd been had and I was absolutely furious.

Anyone remember 'Beadle's About'? Some of the most uncomfortable viewing of my childhood, a whole show of people being pranked. Awful. Not funny.

Havaina · 15/12/2019 22:30

@jamesforagirl sounds like they were jealous?