Category: Practical jokes

New necklace pranked back

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Years ago I had a boyfriend who came home and said he had bought me a gift. He had gone to the dollar store and bought me a large, gaudy, ugly necklace. I’m sure it was meant for kids because I don’t know any adult that would wear it. The pendent was 2”-3” in diameter; plastic and stuck out like a sore thumb.

He thought he was so funny because we were going to the store and he was encouraging me to wear it, imagining that I would be embarrassed doing so. He didn’t know me as well as he thought he did.

We went to the store and I put it on before getting out of the car. Starting in the parking lot and every time we passed someone, (loud enough for others to hear) I would say, “Thank you so much for buying this necklace for me”.

Who was embarrassed? Not me.

Sweet-tooth snacking surprise

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Many (many) years ago and this was so many years ago that one of my food staples was sweets. I still have quite the sweet tooth but avoid foods with sugar nowadays. My then husband liked sweet-snacking but not to the extreme that I did. For the sake of this story I will toss in the fact that I don’t like to waste food.

My husband had mentioned one time that he much preferred the Oreo cookie to the Oreo creme center. One day I had a sweet tooth and thought of those Oreo centers. I didn’t and still don’t like the Oreo cookie itself.

In my sweet-tooth, raging thought process I believed the non-wasteful, considerate thing to do was leave the Oreo cookies for my husband to eat and I’d just eat the centers. I was in the bedroom one night and heard my name called. Well, not called but yelled! Gulp! I knew he just found the creme center-less Oreos. I can’t remember if I got a lecture or just a look. I promised never to do it again.

Practical Jokes and more

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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.