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Random acts of horridness!!

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CountessDracula · 05/02/2004 14:30

To provide a bit of light relief from all that niceness going on on the other thread...

eg I did used to enjoy directing people in the wrong direction entirely when I was a teenager (until someone came round the one way system again later and spotted me and shouted at me!!)

Again when a teenager, we used to have a similar number to our local hairdressers and get about 3 calls a day for them. I did sometimes used to book appointments for people if I was feeling very naughty.

The one I enjoyed the most was this. Walking down Notting Hill Gate and a public phone was ringing. I picked it up and it was someone calling about a motorbike for sale in Loot. I made an appointment for the person to come round and gave them a false name and address.

I was a HORRID teenager but it was fun

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Angeliz · 05/02/2004 14:31

LOL

suzywong · 05/02/2004 14:32

Are you stil horrid? I think I must be horrid becasue I can't think of anything to put on other thread.
Maybe we could form a club

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CountessDracula · 05/02/2004 14:34

Oh yes I'm vile

Still enjoy doing naughty things. I do like doing kind things too, must be a bit of a schizo I guess.

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Northerner · 05/02/2004 14:36

LOL Cd. Sounds just like me when I were a lass! We used to have great fun driving around town and stopping to ask someone directions to somewhere, just as they started to speak we would drive off!

suzywong · 05/02/2004 14:38

Oh good CD
I particulary enjoy yellng and gesticulating at motorists who stop even partway on the crossing when I have pushchair and green man.

The village I grew up in had so few roads that misdirection was pointless

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CountessDracula · 05/02/2004 14:38

Excellent Northerner!

My brother and I used to glue 50p pieces to the pavement and tip buckets of water over people who tried to pick them up hee hee.

I think we get it from my Dad who is still very naughty. He loves poking big holes in cakes when he goes to supermarkets, and if he has to go to talks, lectures etc he always buys noisy bags of boiled sweets and rustles them deliberately!

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Angeliz · 05/02/2004 14:39

When i had a moped in Greece, (me and my sister), we used to turn our lights out and roll down the mountain tracks and then SHOUT+BEEP just as we got behind unsuspecting tourists Was SO funny!!

Also used to get my mam to ask for ridiculous things in Greek when she wanted ham or something!

Angeliz · 05/02/2004 14:40

I remember my dad oneday hiding on the balcony and chucking grapes at tourists too!.Funniest time ever with my dad

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CountessDracula · 05/02/2004 14:42

Can remember screaming hysterically on chairlifts when skiing, which would really traumatise whoever was in the chair behind us, then we would get off, wait and they would come over all anxious and ask us if we had hurt ourselves, we would just look and them and say "what ARE you talking about?" and ski off.

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suzywong · 05/02/2004 14:42

I rather like the sound of your father

Angeliz · 05/02/2004 14:43

he'd probably been on the brandy

ks · 05/02/2004 14:46

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CountessDracula · 05/02/2004 14:54

LOL at all of you!

I still sometimes rev my car up when waiting at big sets of traffic lights so that the pedestrians think the lights have changed and have to run (only young fit looking people, I don't do it to grannies) Def got that from my dad!

DH once had a Jehovas Witness call round when he was at University. He invited him in, said he wasn't interested but his flatmate was, made him a cup of tea, went and woke his flatmate and said he had a visitor and then legged it out of the flat. Apparantly it too two hours to get rid of the JW!

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CountessDracula · 05/02/2004 14:57

Whoops - I have never had it backfire on me fortunately. Hardly ever do it now, have to be in very minxish mood

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Northerner · 05/02/2004 14:58

When I was a kid, my Dad and uncle used to walk around town and stop to look at the sky, pointing and gasping, they would soon have a crowd of people staring at nothing in particular.

lydialemon · 05/02/2004 15:11

My dad used to get rid of JWs by telling them we were Satanists, and quite happy, thank you.

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elena2 · 05/02/2004 15:46

One of my friends used to live on a farm with a fairly quiet road leading up to it.
One of our favourite tricks was stuffing a pair of old trousers with towels and putting wellies on the ends of the legs, and putting them under a bush just round a blind corner.
We nearly weed laughing as unsuspecting motorists went over the legs, screeched to a stop and leapt out of their car thinking they had run over someone!

Very wicked!

motherinferior · 05/02/2004 15:47

I have posted on the anti-tips thread my suggestion of making up entirely fictitious statistics to alarm competitive mummies - 'oh, she's walking? Oh dear, a survey last year made a direct link between early walking and serial killing. Harold Shipman walked at eight months, you know.' And so on.

Thomcat · 05/02/2004 15:57

This is more sick than horrid - can I even admit this?............

When I was 14 and working in a hairdressers as a Saturday girl I made one of the other juniors who I didn't like very much tp hold two matches, flint down, either side of the matchbox. I balanced a match on the top of the two ends then told her to try and karate chop that 3rd match. She did it and as she struck down the match she was holding onto the box with lit and burnt her thumb! I knew this would happen of course! So I burnt her basically - nice! BUT - it doesn't end there, oh no - I then made her neutrilise a perm, for anyone who knows this involves sponging a chemical type of liquid over the curlers so the curls stay in place or something and obviously the chemical liquid really hurt with a great big burn on her thumb.

OMG - that was pure evil and I will be punished for it if I haven't already.

I actually saw her about 2 years ago at some local shops and just ducked by head and hurried past, I was so ashamed of being so nasty to her.

Are you all still talking to me??!!

Angeliz · 05/02/2004 16:01

You're all scaring me now so i better go pick dd up from mey mam's

marthamoo · 05/02/2004 16:01

We used to have a car with a dodgy windscreen wash squirter on the passenger side. Instead of squirting on the windscreen it sent a jet of water arcing up and sideways. We used to love going out for a drive on sunny days and squirting pedestrians as we drove past - very few realised we'd done it, they'd all be looking up into the sky with puzzled expressions.

willow2 · 06/02/2004 00:32

A long story, but to cut it short a woman who ran an antiques store was once incredibly nasty to my mother. Several weeks later I went to the store on the way home from work. Pretending to be a customer I selected an enormous, incredibly expensive, antique dinner set and asked for every item to be bubble wrapped individually as I was buying it as a present for my parents golden wedding anniversary and they lived two hours drive away (in reality five minutes walk). I then pretended that I had left my wallet at home and told the woman that I would go and get it and be back in an hour or so, as I had more shopping to do. I left her knee deep in bubble wrap.