I'm in recovery from my "vacation" (picture my saying this while doing the air quotes gesture - one of the more pointless but amusing gestures out there, which are never to be used seriously). it's hard to get back into the everday routine again, especially when all that awaits are term papers. ugh. spent a good part of the afternoon napping, and as a consequence i am wide awake now. oops.
but to amuse myself and perhaps those out there, here is a list of the best pranks/jokes/capers i have pulled...
in no particular order of importance
1. in high school, sneaking out with amanda, bridget, natalie, and several others one night and stealing various cones, road blocks (the kind with the flashing light on the top), town council campaign signs and then leaving these along with many rolls of toilet paper all over the lawn of my friend brandon cheek's house one night. no small feat, considering he lived in a gated community, but amanda had gotten another friend of ours to call the gate and tell them to let us in at 1 in the morning. we didn't look suspicious or anything.
2. flying out to dc from california in october, 2000 to surprise my friend jill and watch her last home volleyball game ever. i was one of her biggest fans. actually only about 3 people knew i was going to be there so i surprised many of my friends. jody and helder made lunch plans with jill in au bon pain (which i still simply refer to as "the pain"). i showed up early and took up a whole table waiting for them. i pissed off many people on their lunch break. when they finally showed up, jill totally walked past the table and i had to yell at her from across the store. her jaw hit the ground. it is confusing to discover someone who is supposed to be 3000 miles away and is instead right in front of you.
3. again with jill, this time back in college. i actually forgot about this one until jill brought it up during her wedding rehearsal dinner last week. she was out at class or something that night, and i was inspired to steal all of her beanie babies. her grandma would send her these periodically - all dogs. anyway, i decided to steal them, i just barged into her room and told her roommate and then left. jody and i then take these beanie babies and took pictures with them around campus on various landmarks. we also sent jill ransom notes written in crayon. i think i was done with school by then, actually, i was unemployed. that explains a lot.
4. church mexico trip, 2002. steve and i dress up in his crazy disco clothes and pick up katie from the airport. we even had a little sign with her name on it like we were limo drivers. she actually doubled over laughing. it was a good way to finish off a long but great week.
5. ponderosa camp, summer 2001. on my last night working at camp, my friends and i bought some cans of sardines and cheese. we made up a tray of appetizers (it looked delicious), put on my crazy hawaiian shirts, grabbed the video camera and boombox with party music and raided the girls' cabins at about 3 am. we'd stick the sardines in their face and film them waking up to the smell. we even got some girl to eat some of the little treats we made. then we woke up the program director boys and hid an open can of sardines in their bathroom.
6. church ski trip, 2003. andrew, a 7th grader, had been pestering me on the bus all the way back from tahoe - a 4 or 5 hour drive. once we got back to the church and off the bus, i took out a role of duct tape from my bag, grabbed another adult leader, kevin, and we duct taped andrew to a pole. not so elaborate, but immensely satisfying. i think it's every youth leader's dream to do this.
7. a regular work day at church, spring, 2002. matt, steve, and pat get invited by a friend of theirs to go sailing in the san francisco bay for the day. rachel, katie and i are little disgruntled by the fact that they get to go play while us girls are stuck at work. steve is the only one unfortunate enough to leave his car in the church parking lot. after lunch the three of us take the giant bulk roll of saran wrap from the kitchen and spend about 45 minutes wrapping it around his car. we also use the die-cut machine and cut out little pink teddy bears and butterflies and insert them into the many layers of saran wrap, and tie a pink balloon to his antenna. it looked like we were celebrating the birth of his baby girl (steve is single).
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