These are three practical jokes that I have done to various friends that have never ceased to remain funny. Days, weeks, months, even years later a chuckle arises at the thought. For each one of these to be effective requires one major variable: quantity, quantity, quantity.
Tin Foil
For only a few dollars you can acquire thousands of square feet of aluminum foil. That’s the easy part. The hard part is finding a way to get into the ‘target’ person’s domicile without detection and with enough time to do this prank justice. The first time I did it, we used 5000 sq. ft. of foil on just one bedroom. It took us a whole evening to get it all done.
The key to this being a good prank is not just tin foiling the bed and floor or large pieces of furniture. You need to go through every drawer nook and cranny of their room tin foiling the minutest piece of garbage they own. Bars of soap in the bathroom. Every coin in a jar. All of a girls pieces of jewelry. We individually wrapped each piece of clothing in a girls closet and drawers, PLUS, all of her shoes. That took forever. We also shred up several sheets of foil and scattered it throughout the pages of books and other areas. This was done in the fall of 2004 and the whole reason I wrote this article is because she sent me an angry text yesterday saying she just found a page in a book she was rereading that was contained shreds of that prank. For 4 years she has been finding foil in her room.
Glitter
I have not done this prank personally, but have seen its effects. You know how people joke about how no matter what you do you can’t get rid of glitter, it just multiplies. This is completely true. Glitter defies all physics and logic. So, what better place to put a couple of bottles than in your ‘friends’ drying machine full of clothes.
There is no end to the sparkling goodness after that. Essentially, your friend should just buy a whole new dryer. No Oreck can suck all that out.
Unfortunately, the retribution for this prank was several hundred dollars of glitter being poured throughout the perpetrator’s house. One bought a new dryer. The other moved, but looked like a freaking pixie for months after.
Condoms
Again, quantity is the key. Buy a few hundred condoms (you can get them for free at some clinics) and get into someone’s house or apartment. Then turn their living area into a sexual Easter egg hunt. Put wrapped condoms EVERYWHERE. Make the first few obvious, but then shove them anywhere you can. Inside picture frames. Air ducts. Drawers. Pockets of pants. Shoes. Egg bin. Cookie Jar.
After a day of hunting they may find 98% of them. It’s that 2% that will reappear years later in moments of unbridled hilarity. Nothing like having the niece or nephew over to watch a movie, they choose Dumbo off the DVD rack, and open up to find a Trojan. Enjoy explaining that one.
Blessings.
Sincerely,
-Liane Schmidt.