Childhood Pranks ....

[Love Shoes 2,704]

Of which I am afraid I have been party to many ...... :wink:

 

I remember painting my hands green once with gloss paint ..... another time I decided to give my sister a hair cut, when she ran in crying my Dad came chasing after me, I can still see that image today, me running through our estate, crying and Dad shouting and screaming blue murder ..... another time me and my sister cut Mum's fur coat up, and decided to use it as a rug in our den (made out of a clothes airer) and blankets ..... we kept a small piece and rolled it up and stuck it at the bottom of her bed when Dad was on night turn .... so that she would think it was a mouse (she hated mice) the trick worked .....

Another time I wondered what would happen if I lit two matches and put them together, so off I went behind the shed, lit them, and shock horror they caught fire, so I dropped them, but on the way down one of them caught my skirt and made a hole in it, I shot upstairs in the hope that a) my Mum hadn't noticed the funny smell or b) noticed the hole in my skirt .... I hid it in a safe place, one I never thought she would find it in, but she did and I :cry: cried when I got told off .....

 

Me and my sister used to love dressing the dog up as Little Red Riding Hood and taking him for walks in my sisters dolls pram, .... I am sure will come back to me ... oh those were the days ..... playing shop, dressing up dolls or even cutting the hair of my Barbie doll and making her look really cool, I used to make clothes for my dolls, and they weren't prissy .... I even pierced my Barbie's ears with two pins ..... :rolleyes: please tell me I am not the only adult who was a mischievous little girl (child) :embarrassed:

[Guest51810 11,261]

The only ones i can remember doing is things like hiding somewhere then jumping out to scare people lol. Then when i was a bit older we chapped peoples doors and ran away. One time this guy came out and chased us lol i still see him when i go back to my mums house

[Love Shoes 2,704]

Me and my cousin used to dress up as ghosts ...... which was always funny .... but I did the ghost trick at 40 .. so I am still a child at heart .... the kids were camping in the garden .... it was dark, it was late and it was very quiet, and all that could be heard was the wildlife .... tweet tweet, coo coo, ..... :wink: so I grabbed a white sheet, a torch and something that would make a rattling sound (like chains) ...... I crept down the garden ... and as I got nearer to the tent I started to rattle my chains .... then result ... voices were coming out of the tent ..... " whose that, can you hear that?, did you hear that. ssh I am sure there's someone outside", I rattled a bit more, trying not to laugh ..... then they started again "listen, its not funny, Mum is that you?" .... I said nothing ..... it must have gone on for about five or so minutes .... until I realised they actually did think there was a ghost in the garden ...... when I revealed myself ..... :wink: but not once did any of them dare to come out of the tent ..... I think there was 4 or 5 of them and them and we weren't talking babies ... 19 more like :wub:

[Dawny 11,397]

Oh dear one of mine sounds really bad :cry:

​One of our lovely neighbours was selling up and moving so we use to pull up the sale sign on put it our grumpy neighbours front garden, also use to swap how many milk bottles were left by the milkman with people who lived next door who didn't have so many left lol

[dmjg 4,061]

Living on the farm gave lots of opportunities for pranks. I can remember a few .........

 

We used to take a dead snake and put its crushed head in the grass at the side of the road with its body out along the gravel, then sit up the hill under a bush to watch. The milk tankers used to shudder to a halt and the driver would jump out to kill the dead snake. After the first one we learnt to pick a bush a bit further away.

 

The iodine to disinfect the cows teats came in 20 litre containers. We used to chop off the top with the table saw to make calf grain/water/milk containers. The table saw looked lethal with the circular blade sticking out, no guards or anything to protect the user. I was chopping the tops off one day and saw my little brother coming. I dipped a tea towel into the red debris and wrapped it around my hand and was moaning softly as he came around the corner. He went white and freaked. Unfortunately he is now bigger than me and every time he remembers (or is reminded of it) jumps on top of me to administer more revenge beatings.

 

We filled the bedroom of a mate with balloons when he was on a night out. There must have been over 300 of them. When he came home with his lady friend, his room looked like a little kiddies one. He had to eventually tape a pair of scissors to a broom handle to pop them all. I think the young lady left. The next night my bed was full of discarded rubber. Not the nicest thing to feel when you slide in excepting cotton sheets. I collect all the debris and put one dead balloon into every pocket of his numerous jackets and trousers. Years later he was still putting his hand into a pocket and coming out with a random piece of used rubber.

[Love Shoes 2,704]

Living on the farm gave lots of opportunities for pranks. I can remember a few .........

 

We used to take a dead snake and put its crushed head in the grass at the side of the road with its body out along the gravel, then sit up the hill under a bush to watch. The milk tankers used to shudder to a halt and the driver would jump out to kill the dead snake. After the first one we learnt to pick a bush a bit further away.

 

The iodine to disinfect the cows teats came in 20 litre containers. We used to chop off the top with the table saw to make calf grain/water/milk containers. The table saw looked lethal with the circular blade sticking out, no guards or anything to protect the user. I was chopping the tops off one day and saw my little brother coming. I dipped a tea towel into the red debris and wrapped it around my hand and was moaning softly as he came around the corner. He went white and freaked. Unfortunately he is now bigger than me and every time he remembers (or is reminded of it) jumps on top of me to administer more revenge beatings.

 

We filled the bedroom of a mate with balloons when he was on a night out. There must have been over 300 of them. When he came home with his lady friend, his room looked like a little kiddies one. He had to eventually tape a pair of scissors to a broom handle to pop them all. I think the young lady left. The next night my bed was full of discarded rubber. Not the nicest thing to feel when you slide in excepting cotton sheets. I collect all the debris and put one dead balloon into every pocket of his numerous jackets and trousers. Years later he was still putting his hand into a pocket and coming out with a random piece of used rubber.

 

and I thought I was mischievous :wink:

[Johndoe 12,986]

Kippers strapped to exhaust pipe.................on one occasion on the flouro light above the blackboard. Teacher would turn the light on and 5 minutes later we would all be plssing ourselves..............he sussed it when the fish oil dripped down onto his head.

 

Tied string to milk bottles sat on a wall and the other end to the door knocker then rang bell/knocked on door.

 

Sellotape or chewing gum over door bell..................lots of others which all required me to run like the clappers.

[Guest Guest26012]

We used to go around and drink the top of the milk on the doorsteps! Milkman, those were the days.

[BritChickx 10,849]

The only ones i can remember doing is things like hiding somewhere then jumping out to scare people lol. Then when i was a bit older we chapped peoples doors and ran away. One time this guy came out and chased us lol i still see him when i go back to my mums house

Haha we used to knock peoples doors and run away.....on a not so funny note i never personally done it but i was there when my friends did was phone up the help lines and pretend they were pregnant or had a disease etc! Was funny at the time but definately not now! I don't think i was one to play pranks on people tbh!

[Johndoe 12,986]

We used to go around and drink the top of the milk on the doorsteps! Milkman, those were the days.

 

They used to deliver orange juice...................never tasted anything as good since. Another excerpt from my autobio:

 

"I remember well, a certain winter during my spell in the orphanage, when icicles seemed to stretch from the roofing gutters to the ground. It must have been a particularly bad winter and I can remember that when I walked to school, we were actually up to our shoulders in snow in some parts of the street. We sought out these huge drifts and then suffered all day at school ‘cause we were soaking wet through. I remember putting my hands on the radiators, and the excruciating pain as the circulation returned. Matron gave us hell for coming home so wet. My reward was to have a blanket removed from my bed! The orange juice that we used to knick from people’s doorsteps was frozen in the bottles. I can’t imagine how it was delivered.It strikes me at this moment, that no matter how hard I try to think about it, I can’t remember any period of snow before or after this till I was about 14yrs old. I think of that winter as wondrous, although I remember very little other than the fantastic shapes of the icicles."

Edited May 3, 2013 by Johndoe

[Sammy1 856]

When I was a kid my Mum went to a lot of conferences. One was held in Cardiff and one evening they all went to Cardiff Castle for a party. Well, those were the days of letting your kids hang out in a hotel room together with videos without a worry about safety - all was good and we were supposedly tucked up in bed.

So,that night we went around all the hotel rooms and switched ALL of the door numbers, knowing that they would all be drunk as farts when they came back. We then watched the fun...and it was fun watching lots of drunk people stumble around (in fancy dress ) looking for their rooms.

 

The most rewarding was at my school, the infamous PE teacher who used to terrorise every small child, 'somehow' got locked in the cupboard for the whole afternoon.......She lived to tell the tale and years on she is still informing a whole new generation of poor children at the same school.

 

The funniest was an adult prank, when I managed to convince an Aussie friend ( who was visiting the UK), that he needed to go into a service station to show his Australian passport as we 'crossed' into Scotland from England.... He was really nervous about it as he did not have a 'visa' for Scotland...... I will never forget the bewildered look of the shop assistant as he was handed an Aussie passport.

Edited May 3, 2013 by Sammy1

[Maruska 457]

Me and my cousin used to dress up as ghosts and walked near the local pub in the evening, we picked the obviously drunk ones to show ourselves in the white sheets:biggrin: and not too close, was fun watching them ( we might be responsible for some who decided to go sober from then on:laugh:).

 

When we worked in Saudi Arabia I came home from work and told my husband that the security guard found a big snake outside and to go and have a look ( very credible), so he ran out all excited to find out there`s no snake.

 

Spraying unsuspecting family members ( and, on one memorable occasion, my mom`s colleague from work:embarrassed:) with garden hose.

[Jacaranda 1,352]

When me and my twin were 13,we went on a family holiday to Port Lincoln.My older sister (who was 15 at the time)had asked my parents if she could take her best gf.They agreed.So whilst parents were setting up camp,older sis and her mate snuck off.Me and twin decided to follow them without them knowing.They approached another tent and two guys came out,obviously their bf's who had pre arranged to camp at the same place lol So......we decided to black mail older sis and told her we knew what was happening and to keep us quiet,she had to buy us each a packet of cigs!:laugh:She agreed (Dad would of gone ballistic had he of known about their shananigans lol)So she gave us each a pack of cigs.We knew we could'nt store them in the caravan,so decided to hide them in some tall grass nearby lol.Next day my Mum decided to empty the tea pot dregs......yes in the long grass all over our fags!lol Luckily they were'nt damaged too much!A few days later,we told our parents we were going swimming,so took off to the big jetty,where we planned to jump off (Not a good idea as back then the ocean round that area was full of great whites lol lol)Anyway we each lit up a fag,and noticed an older lady sitting on the jetty.She mumbled something about us smoking so young,and we stubbed our fags out and jumped off the jetty.To our horror,one of the dog ends rolled into our folded up towels,and started smouldering!:biglaugh:The lady was shouting at us,so we quickly got out,back onto the jetty and threw the remains of the towels in the ocean!lol But no that was'nt good enough.We then worried my Dad (Yeah right haha)would find them whilst in his boat fishing so we decided to deep sea dive,and hide the towels under a rock!Ridiculous!lol When we returned to the caravan,we told Mum that our towels had been stolen off the jetty!

Edited May 3, 2013 by Jacaranda

[Sustain 39]

So no one used to place a fresh shitte in wrapped newspaper, lite the paper and ring the doorbell and scapper.