Texted him that huggies contacted me and advised we had won a three year supply of diapers and three annual weekend trips to sesame place for which they would pay for hotel and three two day admission passed but we would be out of pocket for our older son's admission.
I said their marketing people want to set up a conference call with us on Monday to discuss details and want to know when we might both be available.
He fell for it. Asking how late can we schedule the call.
Have any of you pulled off a prank today?
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F. B.
Hi F.,
My husband said that when he walked into the kitchenette at work for his morning coffee that he saw a krispy cream box on the counter. when he opened it up, which he knows he shouldn't, it was filled with raw veggies and rice cakes and other sundry healthy snacks with a note from the support staff saying "APRIL FOOL!!!""
They all had a good laugh over that one. :-) S.
Not today, but my husband and I prank each other occasionally. We enjoy it, keeps it fun. He likes to get me at my most vulnerable, like when I wake up in the morning. A few months ago I got in the shower after a long night and he'd tied my loofa to the shower door.
I got him back though. Replaced his shampoo bottle with a ranch dressing bottle of similar shape. Never heard the man laugh and cuss at the same time like he did, haha.
Nope haven't pulled a single prank today. I use to when the kids were little
I like your prank. I use to prank my hubby all the time but now that we're a little older he is harder to prank. Maybe I'll tell him I've adopted a littler of kittens while he was out of town?
I am not a prank person at all, but somehow I ended up with a kid who is. So the pressure is on. April Fools is up there with all the other holidays (minus Christmas and Birthday) to my 8 year old.
I have a dinner plan (chicken pot pie that's really vanilla pudding and starbursts and skittles... I'll let you know how it turns out!) and so far I individually gift wrapped every item in her lunch with elmo birthday paper and sticky bows... hope that's good enough for this year! If I get any other ideas on here I may put them into action.
I also provided the distraction for our math teacher here at work, so 4 of the kids could sneak in and saran wrap his desk and books (their idea). They got a huge kick out of it , it was cute to see.
I'm slowly seeing the value in not taking life so seriously ;)
We woke my husband up this morning singing Happy Birthday, he snarled back, "It's not my birthday", so I guess we didn't pull it off.
Wow that sounds mean! Did he think it was funny?
Nope. but my boss got me last year....he told me he had slept with his ex-wife!!
I've not been able to surprise him or fool him for a number of years now...
I posted on FB that my dogs have been crying themselves to sleep, so I decided to drop out of Pharmacy school & get a part time job to be @ home with them. I was considering going back to finish my degree after my (41yr old) husband retires!! Got just about everyone.
Friend works in a vet hospital & they sent fake samples to a lab (glitter filled test tube for a unicorn, gold coins in a jar for a leprechaun), & the lab responded by providing fake test results, hilarious!! T. :)
My husband and I share a sense of humor, including thinking that most 'prank' jokes are not actually humorous. If a prank creates a negative physical or emotional outcome then it is not funny or appropriate.
Mileage will vary depending on the people involved so you have to know your subject very well. Most people forget that a good prank it isn't about what amuses them, but about what should amuse the other person.
when i picked ds up from school he (age 5) askes me if i wanted a brownie... i said sure and he handed me a brown paper "E"
he said his teacher played that joke on the whole class and told them to use it on mom and dad
I think your prank is pretty harmless - it didn't humiliate him, injure him, or cost him any money, so I don't see why people would object to it. You know your husband and his sense of humor, as well as his tolerance level.
I think there are cruel pranks, and harmless ones. The latter (and for me, the definition of "funny") are those when everyone is laughing. If someone is hurt or alarmed, it's another story. Some local DJs lost their jobs a few years ago because they announced that Boston's mayor had been seriously injured in a car crash. I saw a Facebook plea to NOT play an "I'm pregnant" prank because so many people are trying to get pregnant and don't find it amusing that others treat it lightly. So those are totally off limits.
We don't prank, mostly because my husband wouldn't take the time to be that creative, and because he's gullible enough that it would take him way too long to get the joke - so I don't bother. But I wouldn't object to it on principle. We both have really good senses of humor - probably why our marriage has lasted so long!
I think some of the ideas below are funny - like wrapping the kid's snacks in paper and bows. Hilarious! And the fake food is good too. We used to prank our son, and vice versa, by mixing up stuff in drawers/closets or telling him it was a snow day or whatever. I occasionally gave him a paper napkin in his lunch with a shirt outline drawn on it - a reminder to not use his shirt sleeve to wipe his mouth. But everything was relatively tasteful and not designed to hurt, and we all knew the other's sense of humor.
Hope your husband doesn't pay you back with anything crazy! But given the ordeal you've had with your newborn and the painting issues in a small apartment, anything that gives you a laugh is a good thing!
Tied two different doorknobs together. I was in the kitchen, yelled " hey, guys come out here!" They tried to open their doors at the same time. Funny. Later- I put butter on the doorknobs- that's funny.
We don't prank at our house but we sure enjoy watching a gag!
We LOVED the BBC's 'flying penguin' documentary they did a few years back!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dfWzp7rYR4
Best one I've seen today is the 'Tribble Trial Trends Toward Trouble' video the Smithsonian Air and Space museum did - in honor of Star Treks 50th anniversary.
Very cute!
I would be so bummed if my husband told me that and then it wasn't true!!
I had a mom in a FB group post that her dad called her and her brother, told them they needed to find financial advisors and to start planning for a small release from their trust funds. There were no trust funds. I can't even imagine.
Last year at work a friend put a sticky under my mouse so it wouldn't work. Took me a good 10 minutes (I go in REALLY early), but it made me chuckle. That kind of stuff is harmless, I don't like the things that can make people sad if they aren't true.
