April Fools

How about a thread on best pranks? I have some good ones but I'll wait to see what others post. We don't need to limit it to April 1st stuff either.

Who's first?

My cousing and I used to have a deadbeat roommate. He had a degree in English (I was still in college) but was working as a carpenter (roofer). He did not pay his share of the bills as he took the bulk of the cash and sent it to some girl in his home town that he had a crush on but my cousin and I knew had "known" lots of other guys besides our roommate. Jim was irratating.

But the most irratating thing was this. After dinner, my cousin and I would sit down in front of the stereo and listen to some Steely Dan or Weather Report or whatever. Jim would go take a shower, then come to the living room and plug is f-ing hair dryer into the socket DIRECTLY BETWEEN THE SPEAKERS. He would sit there with the sound of a tornado coming out of his hair dryer while we were listening to music. This is 77 or so and we all had shoulder length hair.

So, one night a dinner, I had my cousin divert Jim's attention. I went to the bathroom and gathered all of the bottles of shampoo, hid all but one, and emptied the last one and put wesson oil in it. I then returned it to the shower.

Jim did the usual after dinner - went to the bath and took a shower. He then came to the living room where we were enjoying some music, plugged that danged hair dryer into the wall and started wailing with it. After a few minutes he sniffs a bit and says "Do you smell anything odd?" few more minutes "I think that shampoo went flat. It didn't lather at all." few more minutes 'I don't understand why my hair won't dry." After about 20 minutes of this, his hair was starting to mat up and we could not keep from laughing.

He never came back into the living room to dry his hair again while we were listening to music.

One of my brothers used to put cigarette "loads" in dad's smokes. If you don't know, they're explosive little slivers you can slide into a ciggie and blow up when the heat hits them. Bro was trying to get dad to quit but the old man just got pissed each time.

So finally little brother escalates it. He sticks a few in dad's pipe. Well, dad had a habit of falling asleep while smoking the thing in his recliner. One afternoon he nods off and BLAM! Pipe tobacco everywhere.

I'll bet my brother still has belt scars.

2 of my brothers once put stick matches between my dads toes and lit them while he was sleeping. They were gone before he woke up so they got away with it. Dad developed a habit of sleeping with his shoes on.