Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, and it's time to call in the reinforcements. I'm pretty sure someone famous once said that.
I have a confession to make regarding the current Pranks & Practical Jokes Contest. It is with purely selfish motives that I suggested it. I'm not a naturally vindictive person, but when you work for people who live and breathe practical jokes it's prank or be pranked. My bosses (Bruce and Jean, for those who know them) have gotten my wife and me three times now and we haven't so much as threatened to get them back yet. That's where you guys come in.
Once you see the egregious horrors that have befallen the poor Trahans at the hands of their insidious bosses, your heart will pour out through your keyboard and you will happily come to our rescue.
It all started shortly after my wife began her employment at SearchWarp.com. She is a (slight) worrier by nature and constantly checks on the site to make sure it is still attracting readers. One day, Bruce led her to believe that the site had completely crashed. For an entire day she was convinced that she wouldn't have a job and that her friends were doomed forever. The next day, everything was back to normal and she was left to wonder what had happened. It turns out that Bruce forgot to tell her it was a prank. For weeks she wondered what had happened and whether or not it would happen again. It finally slipped that Bruce had played a joke on her. The first of many, as we would later find out.
We are Apple fans at the Trahan house. I always swore that we would never have a PC in our home. When Laura began working for SearchWarp, she needed to do some of her work on a PC. I begrudgingly let her bring one of the company laptops into the house, thus befouling it forever. When the screen shorted out she called Bruce and Jean and said it wasn't working. they said, "No problem, we have another one for you!" When we got it home and out of the carrying case, we found out it was a One Laptop Per Child computer. Have you seen these? they're little plastic things that look like Speak 'N Spells. We couldn't even figure out how to open the thing!
The final straw was the Annoy-A-Tron. It's a small electronic device that emits a variety of high pitched sounds randomly. Bruce snuck into my office at my second job and hid it next to my recently upgraded computer. I thought there was a defect in my high dollar machine. Of course, I just chalked it up to a typical inferior PC. It wasn't until a few days (of beeps and chirps) later that Bruce confessed.
So there it is. As you can plainly see, no simple cellophane-on-the-toilet gag will be vengeance enough. Forget the vaseline on the door knob. We need something grand. Something like a fake secret mission from the CIA. Frankly, we need ideas. And thus, a contest was born.
Here's your last call, your last chance. After tomorrow we pick a winner. I wish I could say I will use the ideas from the winning article in my revenge, but then Bruce and Jean would know what was coming. The more ideas I get, the more they will have to prepare for. They can't possibly be ready for everything, right?
You have 24 hours to submit your best pranks or practical jokes. Write, write, write. Then submit to the Entertainment/Humor category before tomorrow evening. Who knows, maybe you'll even win fabulous cash and prizes!
Rob Trahan is the Marketing Director for Searchwarp.com. Rob brings 10+ years experience in marketing and design to Searchwarp and his goal is to have Searchwarp meet or exceed every expectation you may have as a reader or a contributing writer. He has worked in business-to-business marketing, graphic and multimedia design and communications for a non-profit organization. Rob can quote The Princess Bride word-for-word and knows more useless trivia than actual information.
Ha! Thanks for the laugh :-) How fun it must be to work in your office. My husband like to get his newbies by telling them t feel the heat coming off the paint brush, when they put their hand out over it, he brushes the paint across their entire hand. You wouldn't think people would fall for it but they do.
Pour Laura, I do feel bad. I will have to try to come up with something good and then send you a personal email so that Bruce or Jeans roaming eyes will not see it :-)
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