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July 2019 Moms
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GTKY 4/1: April Fool's Edition
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In honor of April Fool's Day, what's the greatest prank you've ever seen or pulled?
Re: GTKY 4/1: April Fool's Edition
Back in college, my friend and I were hanging out on her couch in her room on a Saturday night. We got hungry and decided to get a snack from the vending machine downstairs.
"Should I lock the door?" my friend said as we left her room.
"Nah," I replied. "We're only gonna be gone a minute, so it's not like anyone's gonna steal anything!"
We came back and the couch was gone. We stared at the empty spot on the floor like idiots. "There was a couch here, right?" "We were sitting on it, right...?" We knocked on every door in the dorm asking if anyone had "seen a couch" or "heard anyone walk by like they were carrying something heavy." We even asked one person if we could look around her room to make sure no one hid the couch in there. I'm pretty sure everyone we talked to thought we were high.
A few hours later, my friend got a Facebook friend request from her couch. The profile showed a "ransom note" for the couch along with a picture of it sitting in my friend's driveway back home, with one of our friends from across the hall standing behind it "disguised" in a ski mask and Carhartt jacket, and another photo of the other friend across the hall lounging on it, also poorly disguised. They heard my big mouth say "no one was gonna steal anything," so the moment we were out of sight, they crept into my friend's room, picked up the couch, walked down the other stairwell, loaded it into the one girl's pickup truck, drove 40 miles to my friend's house, and plopped the couch in her driveway.
I still can't believe my friend didn't get mad at me for technically starting the whole thing. The two girls gave the couch back after that night, but not before they snapped photos of it "watching the sunset" in the marsh, sitting in a park gazebo, and outside the front door of a furniture shop.
My younger brother loved playing pranks as a kid.. one time he decided it was my turn to get pranked.. I had a bed that you could store things under, so I had a lot of storage tubs that I kept extra clothes and things in under my bed. One night when I was getting ready to go to sleep, I turned off the lights in my room and I could hear a cricket. I thought it was odd, but didn't think too much of it. Until it kept chirping. I got up, turned on the light and the chirping stopped. I thought maybe the cat brought in a cricket or something. I look around my room, don't see anything and don't hear anything. I turn off my light, cricket starts chirping.. I ignore, whatever. Next day, same thing happens, so I now decide to go get my mom and see if she can hear the chirping, she comes into my room doesn't hear any chirping, I turn off the light go to bed. Chirping! This goes on for days, I've now convinced myself and my family I'm hearing things. Finally my little brother goes, do you hear them when you shut off the lights! and I was like YES!! you get it! he starts laughing at my, goes in my room, moves a box under my bed and pulls out a box of frickin crickets! my family to this day still laughs when they hear a cricket and tell everyone the story of how my brother hid the crickets.