When Pranks Go Wrong

Have there ever been times where pranks have not gone so well or when pranks have gone completely wrong? 

YES!!!  There are 2 things that can happen when pranks go wrong:

1-  Either the unexpected reaction makes the prank funnier    OR

2-  it produces a very undesirable result  (ie. not funny)

On the fly here I can think of 3 personal experiences that come to mind as I think about pranks gone wrong.

Shaving cream and feather

I’ll never forget the time in high school when a few of my friends and my cousin who was in town had a sleep over.  If you know anything about sleep overs with friends (especially prank-prone friends) you never should be the one to fall asleep first.

So there he was~ my cousin, ever so peacefully resting in the land of horizontal slumber.  We had seen the prank administered before but with shaving cream.  Yes the shaving cream and feather prank! Yet in this case we had to modify it slightly (no shaving cream) to a “toothpaste and feather prank”.  We filled his hand full of toothpaste then ever so lightly tickled his nose and… wallla!  Cousin with toothpaste face.

Rather than applying the toothpaste to the tickled area, he  smeared it into his eyes and all over his forehead.  Note to self:  ”Apparently” it hurts when you get toothpaste in your eyes.  I really felt like a Jerk-face that day.  Sorry Garrett 

Spider fuzz

When you’re  young sometimes church isn’t the most exciting place to be at 9 in the morning.  So my brother and I found a way to prank others while sitting in church pews.  We would pluck from our fuzzy black socks little fuzzballs and blow them airborne to watch them land on peoples heads in front of us.  Often our parents would look our way and wonder what in the world we were smiling about.

Then there was that day when a sweet old lady mistook the fuzzball for a slowly descending spider.  She exclaimed, “Ahhh!  A spider!!! A spider!!!”.

Catfish fight

On a summer day at the beach my brother and our friends discovered some small dead catfish laying in the sand.  Let’s see, dead catfish~ bored kids…  why don’t we have a catfish fight?

Only somehow we forgot that catfish have very sharp fins.  Hmmm…  As our friends were tossing catfish I remember the  exchange came to an abrupt halt and ended with tears.   Yep, one of the catfish ended up sticking into the leg of my brother’s friend.  He had this dead catfish hanging from his thigh and for some reason he didn’t think it was so funny…

I’m not going to mention the time I rolled my neighbor’s house and got caught and had to apologize and clean it up…  I know there’s tons more out there which might deserve a second post but please do share if you have any to humor us with