Pranks
This is FUN!!!! I loved planning pranks this summer. I did a lot. I will be trying to share as many of the pranks that I played (and had played on me). There were a lot, so I'll put them into little categories.
Water Bottles. We played a lot of tricks with water bottles. For one girl, S.J., I put sugar into her water bottle. Ever seen those little Splenda packets? I put about four of those into her water bottle. Unfortunately someone warned her. It would have been nice if they had not. Spoilers. (I've been one.) I also did that on K.L., and she did drink it while I watched her from my bunk and tried not to laugh. She had detected it, but she said that she was trying to figure out what was up with it so she kept drinking. I also once "borrowed" K.L.'s water bottle when I thought that she wouldn't miss it (she did) to fill it with ice. I left it with a little letter from a "water bottle travel agency" saying that her water bottle had taken a trip to the North Pole. I also had drawn a little post card of ice cubes and water droplets at a sign with "North Pole" on it. She wasn't that impressed (she doesn't like ice, as I knew). Later on, my water bottle was found to contain the contents of an opened tea bag. Also there was a note for me saying that it was because my water bottle went to Africa. ????? Yes, K.L. was tired and probably in a hurry when she wrote that. I laughed at that note! (To prank K. back, I pretended to be allergic to the tea after pretending that I actually drank some. My throat got sore from my pretend allergy reaction. I pretended to get really upset at her for an allergy reaction. But that didn't fool her, unfortunately. It wasn't even the lack of acting skills. She just doubted that I was allergic to tea. Good reason! :D )
Ice packs. Frozen or melted, these are wonderful for pranking. The best trick, repeated quite a few times, was to put them into the foot of someone's sleeping bag. I got into the habit of checking my sleeping bag for these kinds of pranks before getting in. Ironically, K.L. first played this trick on me, but I found it and then saved the bag for later, finally telling her after being in bed for several minutes that her trick didn't work (I saved telling her until night, even though I found it in the afternoon, so that she wouldn't have time to plan another trick). Several nights later, she was scared by something cool and squishy in her sleeping bag. Wow. Her own trick. I wonder who did that to her?! ;)
Splenda. I carried those around in my pockets. I used them in water bottles and in a cup of juice. Unfortunately, nobody was tricked into drinking a small Styrofoam cup of Tang with about six or four of these little packs mixed into it.
Alarm Clocks. My little travel alarm clock was amazingly useful.
Waking People Up. Okay, this is still with alarm clocks, but I decided to move it into a more generic term. This was one of my favourites with K.L. who didn't like to wake up in the morning. It started with my accidentally waking her up by quoting Anthony's Speech and Julius Ceasar's funeral from the play by Shakespeare. That then led to me coming up with several brilliant ideas to wake up K.. I put my clock next to her head or on her bed. Once I forgot about the clock still being in a room, waking up K.L. and someone else I'll refer to as K.C. two nights in a row. They threatened me. I did make sure to remove that alarm clock. I also played the "wake up" camp song (recorded on my faithful camcorder) next to her head. I left notes (a pretend alarm clock on a piece of paper with "Wake Up!" written instead of numbers). And probably my most dangerous trick (I got out of the room fast and went to my job in the kitchen extremely quickly, guessing that K.L. would chase me and do something like kill me) was this-pouring water on K.L.'s face to wake her up. She said that I "poured" or "dumped" water on her. I didn't. I splashed her with a small amount of water-I made sure to straighten everything out after K. told her dramatized victim's story. I just took a bottle cap and filled it with some water from my water bottle (no sugar added). She jolted awake when that was one her face, responding very quickly, and shook her fist at me later. I stayed out of her way!
Pillows. Steal someone's pillow and hide it. You can replace it with all the things that your friend (in my case, K.L.) has tied into knots.
Hide Your Victim's Cell Phone. Unfortunately, K. just got another worker, C.D., to call her phone and she found it. My little note for her didn't make sense to her as she didn't really look for the phone, just had C.D. help her out.
Marbles. This is my last prank that I will talk about tonight. I did lots of other stupid and crazy things, I'm sure, but I'll let you discover those on your own. I'll just finish up with this little story. This is my major prank on my very close friend A.C.. After this, our friendship actually got better, so I guess that I didn't totally ruin A.'s future nights. I'll give the story and try to calm it down. I'll call it...
Marbles in the Night
It was teen camp and the activities director had given us staff permission to scare campers. Yes, scare them. We were trying to get the lights off in the cabins, the race in, screaming at the top of our lungs to scare the campers until the lights came on. Then we'd get back outside. Anyway, at first it was fine. Then several of the girls decided to play a trick on the other half of us staff girls. They pre-warned some cabins so that instead of being scared they pounded us with pillows when we raced inside. To top it off, the unrepentant tricksters came up behind us and pushed us inside and blocked off our escape. Plus, they did something else that was annoying. So those of us who were tricked decided to play some tricks. That was pretty much, K.L and I decided to play some tricks. Working together, I think that we kinda made a formidable team. After all, for once we were working together on pranking. We played some tricks on a girl in another cabin, then set about planning revenge for those around us. Unfortunately, an informant warned that girl in the other cabin. Sigh. I never did get her back. The girl in the other cabin was most certainly the mastermind. K.L. and I first planned to record a screaming sound on her cell phone, then play it at night in the staff quarters to scare the two culprits staying there. Well, we went to the staff lounge. K.L. tried recording her scream. That was interesting. Especially when a staff guy shows up, wondering why we are even out there and why we were screaming as he was checking over the buildings to close up for the night. I'm sure our appearance there was unexpected! I laugh at the memory of his face. He left us to our plotting (after our explanation), and K. and I both agreed-her scream recording was pitifully humorous. Let me explain-we were planning mostly to scare A.C., not C.D. who had also been on the "mean" side. I also happened to know that A.C. was very scared of the dark. I love studying birth orders and observing people. I had observed A. enough to guess what her reaction would be. When I saw the marbles in the craft room, I was delighted. Here was a great tool for scaring A.C.! K.L. agreed with me. I'd roll them across the floor, warn her sister who was staying in a separate room with A.C. not to respond to anything that A.C. does, and then let A.C. try to figure it out on her own. I sneaked lots of marbles into the staff room with K.L.'s help. Unfortunately, A.C. started getting paranoid. She heard us talking, I think, and feared revenge. She was smart to think of that. Her sister had been on the side of being a victim with K.L. and I. I explained the plan to S.C. and told her not to respond to anything that A.C. did-we were going to scare her. I even told C.D.. She tried to convince us not to do it, but I told her that A. would only be scared for a few seconds and that she'd be fine. C.D. finally agreed not to respond. S.C. went to bed, ignoring A.C.'s threats-"Don't do anything to me. If you do, I'll tell Dad to murder you when you get back home. And if he doesn't, I will when I get back home." (Close enough to her words) S.C. ignored the threats and pretended to sleep and then did. A.C. didn't stop there. She then made K.L. promise not to do any tricks to her. K.L. did. So then I'd have to do the entire trick by myself. Not that hard. But then A.C. tells me, "It's not nice to play on people's fears" as I was talking to her. I sympathetically agreed, thinking something like, "No, it's not nice but I'm going to anyways". I did start feeling badly, though. When I went to my room after brushing my teeth, I could see that A. was nervous. I knew what would scare her, and I was about to do it after all. I felt mean. I talked it over with K.L. (who was trying to fall asleep), and we decided to go on. I got my marbles near the door, then waited. I didn't want A.C. to think that I was doing a trick on her. I'd let her wonder what I was. It was probably 12:00 when I got it bed. I decided to wait for about 20 minutes before playing the prank. At that time of night, staying awake in a dark room when you are in constant motion all day is very hard. But I did it, my travel alarm clock with a glowing screen keeping me company. Finally, I quietly crept from my bed. The door between our rooms (mine and K.L.'s and A.C. and S.C.'s) didn't quite fit. Perfect height for marbles to get under. I started scratching at the door frame (yes, I'm mean!) and making it sound like some animal or something odd was there. Then I rolled several marbles across the floor. Then more and more. A.C. began to react, and I quietly sneaked hastily back to my bed and waited, tensely. She did what I expected-quickly call for her sister. Then she turned on the light and opened the door. I pretended that she was waking me up and was sleepily asking her what the problem was. She was upset and apologized (!!!) for the trick earlier in the evening. I think she was pretty much exhausted and wanting my trick to stop. I told her that she could kill me in the morning if she wanted to (she sweetly didn't! Hallelujah!) and then got up and helped her gather up the marbles (I didn't want her to hurt herself by stepping or slipping on one). However, I didn't completely repent. I had some marbles always hanging around. I'd hold them and play with them. Others would worry about my possession of those little balls of glass. I did use them to torment A.C. for the rest of the summer. And we will probably always remember marbles as being a part of a very intense night of our friendship.
Would you still be my friend if I scared you like that?
And that is the end of "Pranks". Our final portion of this series, "Protecting Yourself", will probably appear next Saturday if all goes as planned.
Please comment your thoughts! Have you been enjoying this series! Make sure to come back for the final part. :)
God bless!
Indi Raine
Jer. 29:11