Comment My fav personal pranks (Score 1) 315
Clever prank - I was in a high school typing class in the late 80's. The class used monochrome PC's that booted DOS from a floppy. Normally, the PC would already be running WordPerfect when you came into class. WordPerfect at the time was just an empty screen with numbers in the upper left corner signifying page, row, and character. I wrote a Basic program to emulate the look of WordPerfect... until you had typed more than 100 or so characters. After that point no matter what key you hit, the next letter in the phrase "This is Satan. I have taken control of this computer. You will obey me." would appear. I left this program running for the next class. The next day I had to promise not to ever screw around with the PCs anymore or I would be charged for the copy of WordPerfect they threw away thinking it was corrupt.
Crass prank - I had noticed that some of the women in the factory I worked at would buy their tampons from the machine in the bathroom. Apparently buying them for a dime a piece was cheaper than getting a box at the store. I printed out a fake memo in the style of the company stating that the price of tampons was going to be raised to $.25, and posted it at the time clock. When everyone was lining up to clock out, a huge brou-ha-ha had broken out. They were enraged that the price was more than doubling, and already preparing to call the union representative. I had included a line in the memo that said, "As usual, if you need change you can buy a package of Twinkies from the snack machine" thinking this would clue them in that it was a joke. Instead, I had to quickly take the memo down and apologize to everyone that I made them think their cheap source of tampons had been taken away from them.
Crass prank - I had noticed that some of the women in the factory I worked at would buy their tampons from the machine in the bathroom. Apparently buying them for a dime a piece was cheaper than getting a box at the store. I printed out a fake memo in the style of the company stating that the price of tampons was going to be raised to $.25, and posted it at the time clock. When everyone was lining up to clock out, a huge brou-ha-ha had broken out. They were enraged that the price was more than doubling, and already preparing to call the union representative. I had included a line in the memo that said, "As usual, if you need change you can buy a package of Twinkies from the snack machine" thinking this would clue them in that it was a joke. Instead, I had to quickly take the memo down and apologize to everyone that I made them think their cheap source of tampons had been taken away from them.
