Comment from Susan Hoff
Time: March 29, 2007, 12:34 pm

Hi PK,

About 12 years ago, I was working nights at Tom Thumb. I conspired with my boss to call my house in the morning when I got home. (6:00 am) He pretended he was from the Anoka County Sheriff’s Office and asked my husband if he owned a 1990 Ramcharger. He said he did and the officer wanted to know what the plate number was. My husband told him and then the officer told him that they just found it in the Rum River. So my husband got off the phone very angry and said he needed his insurance information and the title to the truck. He said he needed a ride over to the towing company. As I mentioned, he was VERY ANGRY! When he told me this, I started laughing and couldn’t stop. He then realized what was going on. April Fools! Well, the reason I did this was because he always leaves his keys in the vehicle. He learned. The moral of the story was not to leave the keys in the vehicle. But, every April Fool’s I have eyes and ears in every direction. He still hasn’t gotten me back. Personally, I don’t think that he can top that one. God bless you all and have a wonderful day.

Comment from Patti
Time: March 29, 2007, 12:49 pm

The best one ever is to lift the seat cushion of the toilet and wrap the opening of the bowl with plastic wrap so tight you can’t tell. then put the seat cushion and lid down - when someone comes to use it they can’t tell it’s covered and it freaks them out!!!!

Comment from Sandra Russler
Time: March 29, 2007, 1:11 pm

From the time my son, Nic, was in grade school, there was one prank he would try and get me with EVERY year. He would tape the kitchen sink sprayer handle down, so when the kitchen sink faucet was turned on, it would spray straight out. Whoever was standing there would get sprayed in the chest/face. The hilarious part was, 75% of the time, Nic would forget about it, turn on the water and spray himself.
Nic enlisted in the navy almost 2 years ago and just went out on the Navy ship USS Harry S Truman. So as April 1 is approaching, I wonder if he will get his Navy buddies, or end up getting himself! Luckily, Nic has a good sense of humor!

Comment from Terri Gardner
Time: March 29, 2007, 1:33 pm

A few years ago I taped the button under the telephone receiver down on my co-worker’s phone. When the phone rang and she answered, it kept ringing and ringing. The look on her face was priceless. We were both laughing so hard she couldn’t answer even when she figured it out!

Comment from PK
Time: March 29, 2007, 1:49 pm

Here’s one that I pulled on one of my bosses a few years back. He was my age and our sons were toddlers at the same time and we were great friends, so I always would pull pranks on him. The night before April Fools I took everything in his office and turned it upside down. Desk, chair, garbage can, phone, even the pictures on the wall. Every single items was upside down. He was a good sport and laughed and then told me to get in there and fix it! pk

Comment from Judy K.
Time: March 29, 2007, 1:59 pm

My sister’s teenage son once took down their bathroom door and hid it in the basement. When someone went into the bathroom to use it and went to close the door, they couldn’t find it!

Comment from Cheryl Danielson
Time: March 29, 2007, 2:01 pm

Hi Pk-

Here’s a couple of things we played on our members at Curves over the years.

One year-we had a sign and a box of hair nets .
the sign said that “due to a new health law- hair nets would be required during workouts- due the hair and dry skin that falls on the recovery stations etc….” Women had a fit!! They were going to write into the state… We even had flyers with all the details —on the bottom it said APRIL FOOLS!! It was funny to see women do their complete workout in hair nets!!

Curves is also know for their “community side” you know women talking and talking. So one year we had all the equipment facing the wall (normally the equipment is facing inward in a circle - so women can talk) We told everyone that Curves Corporate has told us that talking was not allowed on the circuit anymore. Women were not working out hard enough and until they started working out harder we had to keep them this way….It was funny- Some of them had a fit- until they realized it was a joke.
Enjoy!!God Bless! Have a great Easter- We are taking the family on a cruise!!!

Comment from Pat MacRunnels
Time: March 29, 2007, 2:03 pm

The best one we had done to us was several years ago when my nephew decided to prank us w/his cousin. We were in the kitchen and my husband went to turn on the kitchen faucet and when he did, he was sprayed right in the stomach! Eric had used black electrical tape (so we couldn’t see it) and taped the handle on the sprayer down so it would spray when the water came on! He was literally rolling on the floor laughing at his uncle, and that was quite a sight too, he was 5′10″ at the time!
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Comment from Karen Immel
Time: March 29, 2007, 2:16 pm

I sneaked into my coworkers office at 5am one morning and ransacked it before she got there, I turned her chair over, opened file drawers and threw some papers on the floor. Then I turned out the light and hid behind the door. Did I forget to mention that I was dressed in black sweats and a ski mask? When she came in at 5:30am she opened the door and turned on the light. She saw the mess and then she saw the burgler (me) and started screaming. By the terror on her face I quickly realized that I had gone too far and pulled off the ski mask saying, “Its me, its me!” Took her a moment to realize what was going on. Wonderful woman that she is, she forgave me and we are still friends. Maybe the dozen Krispy Kreme donuts I brought her the next day helped. Never ever do this to someone you like. Ok, you probably shouldn’t do this to anyone.

Comment from Beatrice
Time: March 29, 2007, 4:02 pm

I lived in a house with two other gals and we all closed our bedroom doors at night. One of my roommates got up during the night and taped newspaper over my door. When I opened the door on the morning of April fools, I was faced with yesterday’s news. I know this isn’t as funny as some of the other stories we’ve heard, but it was funny and I’ve never forgotten it. Sometime’s it the little things that we don’t forgot. A merry heart doeth good light a medicine, so we all need to keep laughing…….

Comment from Krista
Time: March 30, 2007, 10:45 am

Growing up, each April Fools my Mom would enlist my sister and I in a joke on my Dad. One year it was piece wax paper the size of the slice of cheese in his sandwich in his lunch, another a special muffin at supper that contained a piece of yarn, etc.

The most memorable the following — Mom and Dad were in the living room watching the news, my sister and I were in our play room. I dropped a large stack of books to make a big bang and my sister had ketsup all over her hand. Of course my parents came running (my Mom playing along). It sounded and looked terrible and freaked my Dad out until we all yelled “April Fools”.

Comment from Tammy
Time: March 30, 2007, 10:50 am

My son always thought is was funny to get Mom on April fools day. The tape around the faucet was his usual prank that never failed. One year he thought he’d switch it up by putting red cool aid in the shower head. When I went to take a shower and turned it on, it looked like a scene out of the movie Psycho. I screamed not knowing what was going on and then heard my son laughing hysterically in the other room. When I caught on to what was going on, we had a good laugh together.

Comment from Ross Reichenberger
Time: March 30, 2007, 10:57 am

I have been witness to many great pranks. My best friend’s Dad used to hook up the electric fencer to his kids Bicycles that the kids would leave out, the look on their faces when they got the jolt was pricesless.

Then there is the Virus prank I will never forget. A good friend of mine (Dawn)was going to teach a class at a large corporate company downtown Minneapolis. I was working at the Helpdesk and was suppose to help get the computers ready for the class. I few days in advance I had collaborated with some buddies to “Get Her”. A fake virus was written that when you sat down on the PC it said that it was infected with a Virus and in order to stop it from wiping the drive clean you had 10 chances to guess the password to stop the destruction. With 12 PCs in the room the math was quickly done by Dawn, and all attempts to guess the password up to the last attempt on each PC, of course the screens told the user which guess they were on and what would happen after the 10th guess. Well we all kept very straight faces, while Dawn was a wreck, her class was due to start soon, students would be there, and her classroom was infected and in peril of doom. We all stood around a computer on the 10th and final attempt, Dawn as you can imagine was extremly nervous. The password guess was entered, and when the Enter Key was struck, Up on the Screen was a message. “We Got YOU!” It was awesome!

Comment from Tara Tichner
Time: March 30, 2007, 10:59 am

My Bible college roommate was an extreme night owl and I am an extreme morning person. (And we’re still friends!) Since I woke up and showered first most mornings, I normally served as Jenni’s alarm clock — I almost had to jump on her to get her up and on time for class. For April Fools I thought it would be fun to change the clocks (even in the dorm hallway) and wake her up in the middle of the night, convincing her she was late for class. She was usually so out of it first thing in the morning that she wouldn’t be swayed that it was still dark out. To go further, I was going to get my hair wet and walk back into the room in a towl and my shower caddy to make her think I had come from the bathroom. It was a genious idea. However, I got the stomach flu about midnight and felt too nauseated to pull it off! Grrrrrr….

From Tara (Nelson) Tichner, tuning in from St. Mary’s County, Maryland (formerly from St. Louis Park)