I love fun, harmless practical jokes. When my kids were young we’d have impromptu hide and seek. Someone would hide in a closet. As soon as someone else realized we didn’t know where that person was, it was game-on! We often had to bring our little dog with us to hide because she was a tattle-tail. If the boys didn’t bring her with them, I could always count on her to help me find them. Unfortunately, my daughter-in-law hasn’t thought my adult son’s impromptu hiding is much fun.

We had a living room and a family room, with a dining room between them (in sort of an L shape). We had cable TV in each room and it just so happened that both of the remotes worked either TV. The boys would be watching TV in the family room and I would be here and there doing household whatever’s. I loved changing the channel they were watching, using the living room remote. I would only do it every few months so they would be taken completely off-guard.

They would look at each other perplexed at what happened. I would sometimes hide behind a chair or something so if they came to see if it was me, I’d be hiding. By the third channel change, they would catch on that it was me but it was so much fun.

These are just a couple … I’ll share more later.