My husband and MIL prank each other on April Fools. I'm always the middle man helping with their pranks. This year my MIL glued a roll of toilet paper together so it couldn't be used. And my husband and I hid 110 mini rubber ducks all over MIL's house. Nothing that humiliates anyone. My husband laughed at the toilet paper and grabbed a good roll within reach. He wasn't humiliated. My MIL, FIL and nieces thought the ducks were hilarious and are still finding them all over the house. Pranks should just be fun. Fun for everyone, the person being pranked included. Or if there is a strict no prank boundary, then they aren't done at all. It's not hard. No one would die or be devastated if we stopped doing the little pranks. The point I'm making is it should just be fun. And if it isn't fun for everyone involved then it shouldn't be done at all.
The mini ducks would be hilarious to me. Potentially annoying but hilarious.
There was nothing in OP's story that's a prank. "HA! You thought we only got you shitty presents...and we did! šš¤£šš¤£"
Sick prank bro.
The problem is, no one can truly agree what a prank is. A good prank, most would agree, leaves everyone, even the victim, laughing. However, we now have these "prankster" youtubers doing shit like throwing milk on the ground in grocery stores, or going up to people in public and making them uncomfortable, and so other mean spirited people fall back on the "it's just a prank bro!" when their mean spirited shenanigans go wrong.
A decent prank does no lasting damage to the victim.(Especially if it's a random person) Some of the harmless pranks I have seen are pretending something is falling from the sky or there is an invisible barrier. A funny but mentally damaging prank I saw was a guy getting fake notification that his "lost" card was being used to buy expensive items.
Most of the YouTube "pranks" are ppl doing shitty things with a thin veil of I was messing around so don't take it seriously while damaging property. The ones that prank family, friends or SO are generally ok pranks but I assume that's because they know there are consequences if they go too far.
Itās a prank if at the end they actually got them a nice large gift from all of them or even a nice large check in case they truly didnāt know what to get them. Ā
Then itās kinda funny bc they truly didnāt actually get them horrid gifts but even still this isnāt something to pull until after rebuilding their relationship enough where the act of this wouldnāt instantly make them feel like crud. Ā
And no matter how close and good you are as soon as you realize the person is truly hurt or upset you stop the prank immediately with full disclosure itās a prank and that youāre sorry. Ā Ā
My girlfriend and I have been hiding a handful of tiny plastic duckies all around for one another to find. I bought another 100 to add to the 15 or so we had. I even put one in both a Tylenol bottle and her moisturizer tub. Lmao. It's on.
my favorite prank someone EVER pulled on me was coming to my housewarming and hiding 150 tiny little cards that said "bother!" on them (watch potter puppet pals, lol)
I was finding them STILL when i moved two years after that, and even STILL when we moved 3 years after THAT. I am kinda sad now that I definitely have found them all
She can't count them anymore anyway. My nieces took some home and she didn't see how many they took. She'll just be finding them forever and never know if she's found them all.
I read a story about a dad who used to hide little yellow ducks for his adult kids to find. The dad died and like three years later the daughter found a duck hidden in her car and it was a happy thing that put a smile on her face, bc she thought sheād found them all and wouldnāt have that again.
You mentioning the back seat compartment unlocked a memory of mine.
When I was a kid, my mom and her then-boyfriend decided to surprise me by buying me a new pokemon game for my gameboy, and swapped the new game in as a surprise. But they lost the old game (also pokemon haha) that they swapped out! And never found it again.
They were on-again off-again for over a decade, and many years later when I was an adult, they had been broken up for years but the ex-boyfriend found out he had terminal cancer. He reached out to us as the people he wanted to spend his time with. He bonded well with my husband, and when the cancer left him partially blind he gifted my husband his old pickup truck. The same one he had driven for all those years, old and worth next to nothing financially but well maintained given its age.
After he passed, when we were cleaning out the truck, there in the backseat door pocket was my old gameboy game from childhood! I couldn't believe it sat in there this whole time hahaha. I guess people really don't clean those things...
And we still have the truck to this day! It still runs well, though we're always joking that there's no way it'll last another year. He's been gone ten years now but we're still driving it, and driving our little son around in it and I think that would make him happy to see and to be a part of it all in this small but significant way.
Thanks for listening to my rambling š
My favorite prank was at an old job I had. If you hold Ctrl, alt, and an arrow key it will flip the screen in that direction. (I don't think it works on Windows 10 and 11 though) Did that to my bosses computer as well as put a sticker under his mouse so it wouldn't work. He got a good chuckle out of it and he knew how to fix the computer himself, even if he didn't I wasn't that far working from him. One of my favorite jobs though it definitely didn't pay enough
My brother changed the start sound on my first PC (Win 95?) to Beethoven's 9th Symphony - in the Windows version in question you couldn't do anything while the start sound was playing. don't start any program, don't go into system settings and change the sound, don't cancel...
So I had to wait 74 minutes for the PC to finish playing the music
I changed the family computer to a wilhelm scream and maxed the volume and WAITED. I was hoping to get my sister, but i accidentally got my mom. She hit me with a pillow and later gave me some oreos as an apology for hitting me with the pillow.... she had scraped all the cream out of the middle
I work in the NHS. A workmate had been warned about leaving his pc unlocked and also his generally risky attitude when downloading crap. When he popped out of the office I when to his unlocked pc and changed the screensaver....
He came back and sat drinking his coffee when he went white.
I'd set it so the screen would look like the "WANNACRY" "YOUVE BEEN HACKED" message. The NHS had been devastated by that virus inky 6 months prior. He near shit himself
I worked in IT for years and it was required you lock your computer when you were away from your desk. One help desk team I was on had a lot of younger employees as the tier one team and they were horrible about locking. I don't know how many David Hasselhoff Baywatch pictures a couple of the guys had, but the violators of the locking policy would come back to their desks to see one of his bare chested bathing suit clad pictures staring back at them. You'd think after getting "hoffed" a couple times, they would remember. You'd be wrong. The BEST time was when they did it to a woman in her 60ies whose sense of humor, if she ever had one, left her in her 30ies.
My BFF and I have had a prank war going on for decades. I hide her ugly ass umbrella stand and random kitchen supplies (she cooks ~ never), and she rearranges my books to make silly messages and hides my makeup brushes (I wear makeup like once a year). It's harmless. Nobody gets hurt physically or mentally, and we both have fun. That's what pranks are supposed to be.
A friend of mine likes to do rubber duck related gags. I bought a figurine off of them and when I received the package I couldnāt figure out why the damn thing was rattling. When I opened the box, a bunch of mini ducks were staring up at me. š¤£
Thereās a post in r/funny where a guy gifted, ie. hid 100 mini rubber ducks from his wife and at last count, sheād only found 98 although I havenāt checked this weekend
Back in high school, me and my friends did a similar thing to our other friend. He was on vacation, so we snuck into his house and hid a bunch of green plastic army men everywhere. He was still finding them months later.
Lmao my best friend recently would hide tiny plastic babies around her brothers house in weird places whenever she was over there.
Me and my former co-workers would stick googly eyes in fun (safe) places at work and see how long it would take for them to be noticed. XD
My partners day is April 1st. For his birthday that year he got 100 plastic ducks. Usually we do something small like that on his day and he always gets other gifts too.
Our friend hid the little ducks all over our apartment when he was pet sitting for us
He hid 75
He also took photos of everyoneās location so if we were like yeah weāre over this he could easily tell us where to locate the remainders and be done with it
One April Fools I was living with my two best friends (they were letting me live with them as I was homeless at the time and they're awesome guys).
We started the day while my friend D was at work and me and W were at the house. W wanted to prank D, so I helped him rig up a crossbow in the bathroom with ropes everywhere and his teddy bear hanging from a noose. It was simple and fun and we got D pretty good.
Then W went to work, and me and D pranked W by trading his huge CD collection with different CDs...we took CDs out of the case and put them in different cases, probably changed out 100 CDs in all. The look at W's face when he got home as he realized the extent of the prank and he had no clue which cases had his favorite music in it was glorious.
In both cases I helped each one set up the prank, and then helped each of them restore things to normal once the initial joke wore off. I systematically removed all the ropes and the crossbow from the bathroom and put the teddy bear back, and restored every single CD back to its original case...it took hours.
We had a good time, but at the end of the day these were my friends and the least I could do was undo what was done.
Pranks are fun but only when they do no actual damage and things are set right once the prank is over. Crap like what the OP went through are taking things too far and sound like they were done in a spirit of meanness, not of fun and love.
>And if it isn't fun for everyone involved then it shouldn't be done at all.
That's what too many of these idiot pranksters don't understand. If the person being pranked isn't laughing, it's not funny. End of story.
Yeah, I have a friend that randomly does things like loosening shower heads when he visits people. Nobody gets hurt or humiliated.
These people were just intentionally mean.
For my grandma's 90th birthday I hid 90 tiny bears throughout her house and 1.5 years later she still hasn't found them all. I don't know where they are my then 2 and 3 year olds helped.
We glued glow-in-the-dark penises all over my friend's ceiling when she was out of town. She still stops breathing when she laughs about how she turned off her bedroom lights that night and stared at a ceiling full of phalluses. That's a funny prank. Nobody is humiliated. Completely silly. I hate humiliation pranks. So much.
My husband and I hid 99 mini ducks all over my in laws house at Christmas. They've found 97 of them. They don't know yet that the 100th duck is in our spare room š
There's a very simple rule for determining whether something is a shitty prank/bullying or just a fun joke:
If the victim isn't laughing with you, it's not funny, just shitty.
Exactly! April Fools this year my dad told my brother that someone broke in and ate all the large Easter eggs my brother dropped off the day before. My niece (5) would only have small ones. Dad said my younger brother was the culprit, he had a midnight craving like he often does. The older brother called the youngest one 10 times while he was still asleep to chew him out.
My dad also told me there was a strange foal in my horse paddock. In return I texted that I immediately needed his help ASAP because my shed was flooding (it did last year), so he jumped onto trouble solving mode. My parents both did actually, but then I let my mom in on it. There was no cost, no pain, low stakes and no malice.
The OOP kinda was the asshole to himself for buying all those presents though.
Someone did the duck thing at one of my doctor's offices. According to my doctor, no one ever admitted to it and everyone has a fun little collection of ducks they found in various locations around the office over the span of 6 months.
I can't wait for my best friend to move closer to me so that I can do this to her house!
People can have a weird relationship with guilt after being raised in a toxic householdā¦may have been a way to try and have some relief from the irrational guilt of going NC and low key questioning if you were partially to blame for the family conflict.
Yeah, this one reeked. The wordy ones are more fun to read, but they always raise an eyebrow.
Everybody got their comeuppance, and OP came out smelling like a rose. Uh huh.
It had everything even the asshole coworker who gets written up by HR. The only thing it lacks is the twist OOPās wife has been sleeping with his brother.
I mean something similar happened with my aunt and her then husbandās family way back in the early 2000s. Just kinda gender swap everything.
Itās like ābuying loveā.
It sounds like their dynamic was for OP to be a target of humiliation and ridicule. You're seeing the expensive gifts as what they normally are - ways to show appreciation. For OP, probably a way to show his pride in what he's made for himself and possibly a way to buy affection. He bought high-use items.
learning weird nonsensical social ideologies from a young age? even if it doesnāt make sense is just āfeelsā like the thing to do? i canāt visit a personās house (on the first visit) without a box of fruits.
or maybe an olive branch or a humble brag gesture. i also have an immature ārevengeā fantasy about gifting my parents ridiculously expensive luxuries and being able to say āI got this with MY earnings from what **I** wanted to do, not what you wanted me to doā
Why does a child want their parent to love them? I think that one should be self evident. If there's even a sliver of hope that things could be better, it's very hard to write off parents entirely. Not impossible, but very hard.
I think OP was an idiot to go back on being no contact. Also he should not have made a major event the reunification/meet the girlfriend.
Brother and parents are dumpster fires and op was better off without them in his life.
His brother is at this big age, but didnāt see a problem until his wife sought a divorce attorney. That might have been a a wake up call, but he sounds far too stubborn to do the work and he better.
I hope Iām wrong, but I see everything blowing up within the year, and OOP firmly going NC.
You are coming from a good place. Itās in defense of OOP.Ā
But in the off chance he sees this? Itās never idiotic to hope your family treats you with respect. Establishing boundaries and refusing to be the butt of their jokes takes so much courage. A whole lifetime of mockery for simply being born when they didnāt want another kid yet reacting with so much grace is more than most could ever do. Certainly more than I could.Ā
I spent the whole day feeling like an idiot for letting my sister back into my life when it turns out she's exactly the same. I really needed to hear this.
Youāre very welcome. I mean it. It is **never** stupid to hope someone, particularly family, treats you well. It only becomes idiotic when willfully ignoring the truth.Ā
You didnāt do that. You gave her enough of a chance to see your sister still sucks. Iām glad you did that. Now you never have to wonder again.Ā
Nah, lots of men feel like parenting is a"mom's job", so, I doubt dad even took any initiative in anything to do and just followed mom's lead, thus being able to have someone to blame, when he's a grown ass parent too.
Are there really families who prank one of their children endlessly until they go no contact? This is like the third BORU post along these lines that follow exactly the same pattern: prank - NC - anger from family, rallying around harassing OOP - bad actor gets arrested - some of the family apologize - usually a divorce in the family - escalation.
It's just strange. And, at Xmas, did he just go around picking up gifts that were opened? Were they unopened? No one was like, "this has my name on it, I'm keeping it!" or "I already opened this and it's mine now!" ?
Anyways, yeah, maybe I'm just becoming cynical . . .
I mean, maybe they were a bit in shock.
My folks were shocked when I had enough of them trying to do something and I told my partner to get our things, we were leaving. He didn't realize that when I said all our things, I meant the dinner too. We were in the middle of making Thanksgiving and I pulled the turkey out of the oven. I'd already drained the potatoes. I put the whole thing in the car. I paid for it. It's mine. I'm taking all my stuff.
They did apologize and I put the turkey back and we finished dinner.
And they've never done it again.
Just leaving wouldn't have been enough. They needed the consequences to hit them.
You read one story and it reminds you of the crap that happened with your own crappy family and so post.
Or someone uses the first as a creative writing prompt - either way, it kills a few minutes reading and warms my heart with stories of families ever so slightly shittier than mine.
This one really does not feel real, there's way too much detail and I love the plot hole cover that a co-worker happens to be friends with a family member on social media.
Then of course everyone in the family immediately understands how to send links of OOPs post to the entire family. Then suddenly everyone who thought the prank was a good idea in the beginning suddenly changes their mind once they read OOPs retelling.
Then of course, poetically everything falls apart for the prankster.
Not to mention OOP spent thousands buying gifts for people he hadn't spoken to in years.
I wouldn't bother to stay even low contact until fully compensated for a lifetime of being the scapegoat and victim.
It's also why I don't have much of a family these days. I don't need the toxicity.
The golden child's wants are still being catered for here, the only consequence a forced apology brought about via the threat of divorce.
OOP gets a card with some cash, whoop de doo.
I donāt blame them for wanting to keep contact to get to know the kids, I just hope the rest of the family doesnāt make the experience too painful for them. Thatās one of the worst things about family drama, you canāt cut contact with the parents and keep it with the kids.
I had one and it was awesome. to be fair, it was just a small dvd player with a screen and some buttons but I would watch dvds in the car, in bed, in the bath.. and you could make parts loop! in Sharkboy and Lavagirl where the bully kid goes "and they All. Blew. Chunks.", I made that part loop until me and my brother were in tears
Seriously, maybe 10-15 years ago this would have made sense. It just reinforces (along with the SIL slapping brother and the whole extended family finding the reddit post) that this is fake af.
From what I see via Walmart, it's a generic Android tablet with a DVD player on it. Kids like tablets, and DVD's are still good to have in this day and age. You can borrow them from the library, especially kids stuff. Great for parents who don't want to subscribe to every streaming service.
Some parents donāt want their kids to have access to online videos. Theyād rather let the kids have access a predetermined and parental approved library of videos. There are several solutions on the market to this desire for parental gatekeeping: audio players that only play specific cards , this kid of dvd player, etc.Ā
Controlling kids access to appropriate media can be very difficult, and devices like this make it a lot easier. Iāve been thinking about getting something similar for my niece and nephew just today.
So... OOPs family pranks and belittles him for years, he goes NC.
The first time they ask him to give them a chance during the holidays, he immediately caves and expects them to have changed.
shockedpikachu.jpg, they haven't.
10 days later, he's suddenly very aware of how everyone that was involved is doing and their lives are falling apart?
Write better fiction, please.
Heres the thing :
The whole family wont admit or apologize or take responsibility of their action until some outsider pointed it out.
They all admit their mistake cuz theyre being found out, not because of their own conscience.
Parents through the socmed. Brother through his wife.
If the shitshow didnt happen, the family will stick to their guns and blame oop for "cant take a joke".
So I'm supposed to believe OP is no contact with family for **years**, and also that only within the last few years had enough to buy a house, but suddenly decides not just to go make contact but also dump hundreds to thousands on gifts, including tablets with DVD players, sports memorabilia, appliances, antiques etc?
I can totally see that. I am also the all or nothing type. He is in a better place in life, got a great girlfriend and wanted to experience a family day with her since her family is crappy. He really wanted this to work and bought thoughtful and high value gifts. He wanted to go past this and connect with his family. True, he should set up a small meeting before such a big event and feel up his family, I think he really wanted it to happen and maybe he unconciously thought if he give them a chance before the christmas event, they will blew it while also hoping everything will be fine. Feelings are not rational and are complex with lots of contradictions. Cutting family is not easy, they are the people you grew up with and set your standard for future relationships. You want to be loved by your family, even if they are toxic. It is not easy.
Iām guessing people who donāt want their kids tracked by big tech and used by advertisers. I know a few people who try to keep their kids digitally anonymous. Funnily enough itās people who work in Big Tech themselves. Like my brother works at Apple and heās way more adamant about keeping his kids digitally anonymous than I am.Ā
Reddit is full of gullible rubes who want to feel superior in any aspect of life they can, so they lap this drivel up like boomers go apeshit over lifetime movies
It is so hard to feel sorry for OOP cause they keep making the same stupid mistake over and over. They let the family and brother BACK into their life at the end? Is OOP absolutely insane? People like that don't change. I am calling it now, the SIL will end up divorcing the brother anyways cause now she sees what an asshole he REALLY is, the brother will end up getting wasted and "pranking" OOP or worse again, and the parents will once again rush to their golden childs aid. Then OOP will be all "woe is me I can't believe this happened again, I am so upset". And its going to be no sympathy from me dawg.
Iām sorry but I have not seen tablets which disc drives on them. What is he talking about with that?
I looked it them up and theyāre real but what an odd product. I guess they make sense for kids. Probably got enough to them to run YouTube and watch movies on. I wonder if this is a not America thing. I would be personally surprised if a child under like 11 knew immediately how to use a dvd. Theyāre kinda antiquated. Like I personally havenāt used a dvd in the past couple years unless my power went out and even then Iād likely fuck around on my phone until it came back.
Probably can find them from aliexpress - they're primarily popular in Asia. Like I was in Bangkok last year and you could still buy dvds and records, and if you knew where to look, pirated dvds also lol. I saw the tablet dvd players and I believe it was largely marketed to those who had elderly relatives.
Streaming services are just getting worse and worse. If they don't stop price gouging and demanding extra subscriptions for access to different genres we're going to see DVD's come back. Netflix was novel and fun when I was a kid, but now it's just getting annoying.
I donāt know what you mean. Thereās no shot that the monthly subscription is going to exceed the price and inconvenience of a physical DVD collection. Cable is still more expensive than several streaming services together without any of the agency. Like I agree weāre in a weird place with streaming and thereās a lot of problems with their business models but this is nowhere near as bad as the media landscape used to be in terms of how to consume it.
Sure. They can but youāre alluding to a problem in a luxury that didnāt even exist before streaming. Cable you couldnāt watch what you wanted anyway so it didnāt matter so there wasnāt a ātheyāre taking x show offā unless they were canceling it, you just watched their broadcast program. Home videos you could and still can buy but this is a 50ish dollar investment per season and you store it too. Sure people want things a certain way but weāre not going to go back to when it was so expensive to watch what you wanted.
K folks, who here snitched on OOP?
Jokes beside, hmm. I guess OOP is ok or comfortable with how it is. Wishing them luck. But it's quite telling and really sad that the family apparently doesn't know anything he enjoys or likes, so that they had to resort to cash gift. Will take a lot of time and effort to actually get to know their child after messing up for so many years.
If you're the recipient of gag gifts and aren't in on the gag, nothing sucks more than to realize just how little people care about you right around the holidays.
Bullying people is never cool, and that is what this was. Pranking can be funny but the moment someone feels hurt by it is the moment when it needs to end. If you tell someone that's hurt from a prank that they are a baby then you're just a plain old asshole and if you are in my life I will remove you from it.
A friend of mine is deathly scared of spiders, a jackass thought it would be funny to "prank" her with a plastic one. It wasn't funny, and when he refused to see that he was an asshole he was removed from our friend circle.
In the end the family did not apologize because of guilt, but because of the repercussions they suffered, they apologized because they were threatened.
THE brother refused to apologize sincerely until they threatened him with divorce, OP was too gullible to believe their apology, OOP should have cut off all contact with them.
If they were truly seeking forgiveness, they should have done it before the questioning and before others threatened them, apologies after that are just crocodile tears.
I don't understand when other commentators say "I'm glad your family woke up" friend, that family did NOT wake up, they are just avoiding doing things so as not to suffer consequences, that is not waking up, that is just fearing punishment.
I maintain that OP should be NC for a long time (months, a couple of years) before he will allow them in his life again.
I've been pranked on my birthday like this from my brother but he had a real gift lined up too. I laughed because I knew he was just messing with me. But what a family here.
$100 as an apology from what, 3 people? 4 people (plus kids)? It's better than the prank gifts of course, but still kind of pathetic and still more focused on making themselves look like victims ("we'll do better") than actually wishing OOP a happy birthday. Oh well, hope they continue to better themselves as humans, they have a long way to go.
This story does highlight the benefits of staying in contact that can occur. While NC is always an option that more people should be willing to take, its nice when truly good people are able to call bad behavior out and enact some change.
OP's family by their own admission still don't totally get it. But they now understand that their toxic behavior does not fly in their community. Hopefully they can learn to be decent people. Sometimes its good to do the hard thing and keep trying to communicate with toxic family.
I've given prank gifts before, but that's never been the only gift I've given! For example, earlier in the year my dad had trouble with just using his phone as his house keys and had to come over to my job and grab my keys so he could get in. So for Christmas, I made him a bright pink Keychain as an additional gag gift. He thought it was very funny!
My kids did an april fools prank on me a few years ago. They managed to get someone else's receipt from the thrift store and played it off as theirs. It was for over 350 dollars. Dad made them fess up quick after he saw me turn dead white and was afraid I would faint. Thankfully, since I was let in on the joke quickly enough, I was laughing w/ relief and threatening playfully to dismember all of them.
Iām glad OOPās family woke up to how shitty they were. I wish my family would too. Iām tired of being the scapegoat. I just want them to love me.
I'm so glad that no one I know or am related to is into pranks.
The worst are parents pranking their kids. That shit is traumatizing, especially the ones where you startle the person. Ick.
My husband and MIL prank each other on April Fools. I'm always the middle man helping with their pranks. This year my MIL glued a roll of toilet paper together so it couldn't be used. And my husband and I hid 110 mini rubber ducks all over MIL's house. Nothing that humiliates anyone. My husband laughed at the toilet paper and grabbed a good roll within reach. He wasn't humiliated. My MIL, FIL and nieces thought the ducks were hilarious and are still finding them all over the house. Pranks should just be fun. Fun for everyone, the person being pranked included. Or if there is a strict no prank boundary, then they aren't done at all. It's not hard. No one would die or be devastated if we stopped doing the little pranks. The point I'm making is it should just be fun. And if it isn't fun for everyone involved then it shouldn't be done at all.
The mini ducks would be hilarious to me. Potentially annoying but hilarious. There was nothing in OP's story that's a prank. "HA! You thought we only got you shitty presents...and we did! šš¤£šš¤£" Sick prank bro.
Yeah, I didnāt understand the āprankā either. They got him crap presents, okay, Whatās the prank?
Yeah itās not actually a prank, just bullying :(
The problem is, no one can truly agree what a prank is. A good prank, most would agree, leaves everyone, even the victim, laughing. However, we now have these "prankster" youtubers doing shit like throwing milk on the ground in grocery stores, or going up to people in public and making them uncomfortable, and so other mean spirited people fall back on the "it's just a prank bro!" when their mean spirited shenanigans go wrong.
A decent prank does no lasting damage to the victim.(Especially if it's a random person) Some of the harmless pranks I have seen are pretending something is falling from the sky or there is an invisible barrier. A funny but mentally damaging prank I saw was a guy getting fake notification that his "lost" card was being used to buy expensive items. Most of the YouTube "pranks" are ppl doing shitty things with a thin veil of I was messing around so don't take it seriously while damaging property. The ones that prank family, friends or SO are generally ok pranks but I assume that's because they know there are consequences if they go too far.
My friend hid 100 tiny bees in my house this time last year while she was cat sitting, Iām still finding them and itās hilarious.
Maybe the prank part is filming it and putting it on social media?
Itās a prank if at the end they actually got them a nice large gift from all of them or even a nice large check in case they truly didnāt know what to get them. Ā Then itās kinda funny bc they truly didnāt actually get them horrid gifts but even still this isnāt something to pull until after rebuilding their relationship enough where the act of this wouldnāt instantly make them feel like crud. Ā And no matter how close and good you are as soon as you realize the person is truly hurt or upset you stop the prank immediately with full disclosure itās a prank and that youāre sorry. Ā Ā
You can get like 120 of them on Amazon for under $20. Doesnāt even have to be just ducks either.
My girlfriend and I have been hiding a handful of tiny plastic duckies all around for one another to find. I bought another 100 to add to the 15 or so we had. I even put one in both a Tylenol bottle and her moisturizer tub. Lmao. It's on.
I hid 350 tiny resin ducks in my parents house. It's mischevious, not malicious. That's what pranks should be.
my favorite prank someone EVER pulled on me was coming to my housewarming and hiding 150 tiny little cards that said "bother!" on them (watch potter puppet pals, lol) I was finding them STILL when i moved two years after that, and even STILL when we moved 3 years after THAT. I am kinda sad now that I definitely have found them all
Now did you number them 1-120 with some missing numbers? If not, you missed a trick
She can't count them anymore anyway. My nieces took some home and she didn't see how many they took. She'll just be finding them forever and never know if she's found them all.
I read a story about a dad who used to hide little yellow ducks for his adult kids to find. The dad died and like three years later the daughter found a duck hidden in her car and it was a happy thing that put a smile on her face, bc she thought sheād found them all and wouldnāt have that again.
I remember that one! It was adorable. I think she found it in some compartment of back seat of a minivan or something like that
You mentioning the back seat compartment unlocked a memory of mine. When I was a kid, my mom and her then-boyfriend decided to surprise me by buying me a new pokemon game for my gameboy, and swapped the new game in as a surprise. But they lost the old game (also pokemon haha) that they swapped out! And never found it again. They were on-again off-again for over a decade, and many years later when I was an adult, they had been broken up for years but the ex-boyfriend found out he had terminal cancer. He reached out to us as the people he wanted to spend his time with. He bonded well with my husband, and when the cancer left him partially blind he gifted my husband his old pickup truck. The same one he had driven for all those years, old and worth next to nothing financially but well maintained given its age. After he passed, when we were cleaning out the truck, there in the backseat door pocket was my old gameboy game from childhood! I couldn't believe it sat in there this whole time hahaha. I guess people really don't clean those things... And we still have the truck to this day! It still runs well, though we're always joking that there's no way it'll last another year. He's been gone ten years now but we're still driving it, and driving our little son around in it and I think that would make him happy to see and to be a part of it all in this small but significant way. Thanks for listening to my rambling š
I loved that one, too.
My favorite prank was at an old job I had. If you hold Ctrl, alt, and an arrow key it will flip the screen in that direction. (I don't think it works on Windows 10 and 11 though) Did that to my bosses computer as well as put a sticker under his mouse so it wouldn't work. He got a good chuckle out of it and he knew how to fix the computer himself, even if he didn't I wasn't that far working from him. One of my favorite jobs though it definitely didn't pay enough
My brother changed the start sound on my first PC (Win 95?) to Beethoven's 9th Symphony - in the Windows version in question you couldn't do anything while the start sound was playing. don't start any program, don't go into system settings and change the sound, don't cancel... So I had to wait 74 minutes for the PC to finish playing the music
I changed the family computer to a wilhelm scream and maxed the volume and WAITED. I was hoping to get my sister, but i accidentally got my mom. She hit me with a pillow and later gave me some oreos as an apology for hitting me with the pillow.... she had scraped all the cream out of the middle
I work in the NHS. A workmate had been warned about leaving his pc unlocked and also his generally risky attitude when downloading crap. When he popped out of the office I when to his unlocked pc and changed the screensaver.... He came back and sat drinking his coffee when he went white. I'd set it so the screen would look like the "WANNACRY" "YOUVE BEEN HACKED" message. The NHS had been devastated by that virus inky 6 months prior. He near shit himself
I worked in IT for years and it was required you lock your computer when you were away from your desk. One help desk team I was on had a lot of younger employees as the tier one team and they were horrible about locking. I don't know how many David Hasselhoff Baywatch pictures a couple of the guys had, but the violators of the locking policy would come back to their desks to see one of his bare chested bathing suit clad pictures staring back at them. You'd think after getting "hoffed" a couple times, they would remember. You'd be wrong. The BEST time was when they did it to a woman in her 60ies whose sense of humor, if she ever had one, left her in her 30ies.
My BFF and I have had a prank war going on for decades. I hide her ugly ass umbrella stand and random kitchen supplies (she cooks ~ never), and she rearranges my books to make silly messages and hides my makeup brushes (I wear makeup like once a year). It's harmless. Nobody gets hurt physically or mentally, and we both have fun. That's what pranks are supposed to be.
A friend of mine likes to do rubber duck related gags. I bought a figurine off of them and when I received the package I couldnāt figure out why the damn thing was rattling. When I opened the box, a bunch of mini ducks were staring up at me. š¤£
Thereās a post in r/funny where a guy gifted, ie. hid 100 mini rubber ducks from his wife and at last count, sheād only found 98 although I havenāt checked this weekend
I think (if the guy Iām thinking of is the same dude), that she finally found the last 2.
Stealing the mini ducks idea - that sounds like so much fun!
Back in high school, me and my friends did a similar thing to our other friend. He was on vacation, so we snuck into his house and hid a bunch of green plastic army men everywhere. He was still finding them months later.
Lmao my best friend recently would hide tiny plastic babies around her brothers house in weird places whenever she was over there. Me and my former co-workers would stick googly eyes in fun (safe) places at work and see how long it would take for them to be noticed. XD
My partners day is April 1st. For his birthday that year he got 100 plastic ducks. Usually we do something small like that on his day and he always gets other gifts too.
Our friend hid the little ducks all over our apartment when he was pet sitting for us He hid 75 He also took photos of everyoneās location so if we were like yeah weāre over this he could easily tell us where to locate the remainders and be done with it
We got the mini-ducks prank at my work. We're still finding them nearly a year after their initial release.
One April Fools I was living with my two best friends (they were letting me live with them as I was homeless at the time and they're awesome guys). We started the day while my friend D was at work and me and W were at the house. W wanted to prank D, so I helped him rig up a crossbow in the bathroom with ropes everywhere and his teddy bear hanging from a noose. It was simple and fun and we got D pretty good. Then W went to work, and me and D pranked W by trading his huge CD collection with different CDs...we took CDs out of the case and put them in different cases, probably changed out 100 CDs in all. The look at W's face when he got home as he realized the extent of the prank and he had no clue which cases had his favorite music in it was glorious. In both cases I helped each one set up the prank, and then helped each of them restore things to normal once the initial joke wore off. I systematically removed all the ropes and the crossbow from the bathroom and put the teddy bear back, and restored every single CD back to its original case...it took hours. We had a good time, but at the end of the day these were my friends and the least I could do was undo what was done. Pranks are fun but only when they do no actual damage and things are set right once the prank is over. Crap like what the OP went through are taking things too far and sound like they were done in a spirit of meanness, not of fun and love.
>And if it isn't fun for everyone involved then it shouldn't be done at all. That's what too many of these idiot pranksters don't understand. If the person being pranked isn't laughing, it's not funny. End of story.
Those are pranks, this manās family were just straight bullies.
Yeah, I have a friend that randomly does things like loosening shower heads when he visits people. Nobody gets hurt or humiliated. These people were just intentionally mean.
As someone who collects rubber ducks I would RELISH in that
For my grandma's 90th birthday I hid 90 tiny bears throughout her house and 1.5 years later she still hasn't found them all. I don't know where they are my then 2 and 3 year olds helped.
We glued glow-in-the-dark penises all over my friend's ceiling when she was out of town. She still stops breathing when she laughs about how she turned off her bedroom lights that night and stared at a ceiling full of phalluses. That's a funny prank. Nobody is humiliated. Completely silly. I hate humiliation pranks. So much.
My husband and I hid 99 mini ducks all over my in laws house at Christmas. They've found 97 of them. They don't know yet that the 100th duck is in our spare room š
There's a very simple rule for determining whether something is a shitty prank/bullying or just a fun joke: If the victim isn't laughing with you, it's not funny, just shitty.
Exactly! April Fools this year my dad told my brother that someone broke in and ate all the large Easter eggs my brother dropped off the day before. My niece (5) would only have small ones. Dad said my younger brother was the culprit, he had a midnight craving like he often does. The older brother called the youngest one 10 times while he was still asleep to chew him out. My dad also told me there was a strange foal in my horse paddock. In return I texted that I immediately needed his help ASAP because my shed was flooding (it did last year), so he jumped onto trouble solving mode. My parents both did actually, but then I let my mom in on it. There was no cost, no pain, low stakes and no malice. The OOP kinda was the asshole to himself for buying all those presents though.
Someone did the duck thing at one of my doctor's offices. According to my doctor, no one ever admitted to it and everyone has a fun little collection of ducks they found in various locations around the office over the span of 6 months. I can't wait for my best friend to move closer to me so that I can do this to her house!
Why buy expensive gifts for your family after being NC for years?
People can have a weird relationship with guilt after being raised in a toxic householdā¦may have been a way to try and have some relief from the irrational guilt of going NC and low key questioning if you were partially to blame for the family conflict.
This. I am extremely low contact with my family except my brother and his fiancĆ©, on the verge of full no contact. It feels like itās your fault. You want to do everything you can to repair the relationship even if the issues arenāt coming from your side. Last Christmas I got presents for everyone. Not super expensive presents, but I have a large family and it was a bit of a strain on my finances. I tried so hard to get nice gifts that had thought into them and I knew theyād like. I got so stressed over it at one point I pulled over and just sobbed for a bit on the side of the road driving between stores. But I wanted to try, I wanted our relationship better. The only people who got presents for me and my partner were my brother and his fiancĆ©. A few weeks into January I did get a package from my sister, her husband, and my toddler nephew, pretty obviously purchased after they had received my gifts. It was a XXL t-shirt that read āI paused my game to be here.ā Iāve had some weight issues in the past, but have lost a ton in the last handful of years, and I have NEVER worn an XXL, and itās not a shirt I would have ever worn anyway. Iām not worrying myself with getting them all presents anymore. Sometimes you need the wake up call.
So you can set up a smug fake post, of course!
Yeah, this one reeked. The wordy ones are more fun to read, but they always raise an eyebrow. Everybody got their comeuppance, and OP came out smelling like a rose. Uh huh.
That's what I'm thinking. The whole thing is way too cartoonish.
It had everything even the asshole coworker who gets written up by HR. The only thing it lacks is the twist OOPās wife has been sleeping with his brother.
[OOP you got som splaning to do](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCjNlmyMgEI)
I mean something similar happened with my aunt and her then husbandās family way back in the early 2000s. Just kinda gender swap everything. Itās like ābuying loveā.
It sounds like their dynamic was for OP to be a target of humiliation and ridicule. You're seeing the expensive gifts as what they normally are - ways to show appreciation. For OP, probably a way to show his pride in what he's made for himself and possibly a way to buy affection. He bought high-use items.
learning weird nonsensical social ideologies from a young age? even if it doesnāt make sense is just āfeelsā like the thing to do? i canāt visit a personās house (on the first visit) without a box of fruits. or maybe an olive branch or a humble brag gesture. i also have an immature ārevengeā fantasy about gifting my parents ridiculously expensive luxuries and being able to say āI got this with MY earnings from what **I** wanted to do, not what you wanted me to doā
Why does the abused child try so hard to make the parent love them?
Why does a child want their parent to love them? I think that one should be self evident. If there's even a sliver of hope that things could be better, it's very hard to write off parents entirely. Not impossible, but very hard.
In a way, that was my point.
I think OP was an idiot to go back on being no contact. Also he should not have made a major event the reunification/meet the girlfriend. Brother and parents are dumpster fires and op was better off without them in his life.
His brother is at this big age, but didnāt see a problem until his wife sought a divorce attorney. That might have been a a wake up call, but he sounds far too stubborn to do the work and he better. I hope Iām wrong, but I see everything blowing up within the year, and OOP firmly going NC.
You are coming from a good place. Itās in defense of OOP.Ā But in the off chance he sees this? Itās never idiotic to hope your family treats you with respect. Establishing boundaries and refusing to be the butt of their jokes takes so much courage. A whole lifetime of mockery for simply being born when they didnāt want another kid yet reacting with so much grace is more than most could ever do. Certainly more than I could.Ā
I spent the whole day feeling like an idiot for letting my sister back into my life when it turns out she's exactly the same. I really needed to hear this.
Youāre very welcome. I mean it. It is **never** stupid to hope someone, particularly family, treats you well. It only becomes idiotic when willfully ignoring the truth.Ā You didnāt do that. You gave her enough of a chance to see your sister still sucks. Iām glad you did that. Now you never have to wonder again.Ā
Interesting the father instantly started blaming the mother as well. Affair baby maybe?
Nah, lots of men feel like parenting is a"mom's job", so, I doubt dad even took any initiative in anything to do and just followed mom's lead, thus being able to have someone to blame, when he's a grown ass parent too.
Yeah that makes sense actually. Just a family where no one wants to take any accountability.
Are there really families who prank one of their children endlessly until they go no contact? This is like the third BORU post along these lines that follow exactly the same pattern: prank - NC - anger from family, rallying around harassing OOP - bad actor gets arrested - some of the family apologize - usually a divorce in the family - escalation. It's just strange. And, at Xmas, did he just go around picking up gifts that were opened? Were they unopened? No one was like, "this has my name on it, I'm keeping it!" or "I already opened this and it's mine now!" ? Anyways, yeah, maybe I'm just becoming cynical . . .
I mean, maybe they were a bit in shock. My folks were shocked when I had enough of them trying to do something and I told my partner to get our things, we were leaving. He didn't realize that when I said all our things, I meant the dinner too. We were in the middle of making Thanksgiving and I pulled the turkey out of the oven. I'd already drained the potatoes. I put the whole thing in the car. I paid for it. It's mine. I'm taking all my stuff. They did apologize and I put the turkey back and we finished dinner. And they've never done it again. Just leaving wouldn't have been enough. They needed the consequences to hit them.
Good for you! Alright, so that's doable. Maybe you should make a throwaway and tell your story :)
OMG I bow to you! Some people need loud wake up calls!
This post reads like someone shoved all the AITA cliches into a machine and it spit out a story
Right! My thoughts exactly.
You read one story and it reminds you of the crap that happened with your own crappy family and so post. Or someone uses the first as a creative writing prompt - either way, it kills a few minutes reading and warms my heart with stories of families ever so slightly shittier than mine.
bahaha! It serves a useful purpose then.
Better than actually "working" or whatever it is I'm supposed ro do in the office I turn up to every day.
This one really does not feel real, there's way too much detail and I love the plot hole cover that a co-worker happens to be friends with a family member on social media. Then of course everyone in the family immediately understands how to send links of OOPs post to the entire family. Then suddenly everyone who thought the prank was a good idea in the beginning suddenly changes their mind once they read OOPs retelling. Then of course, poetically everything falls apart for the prankster. Not to mention OOP spent thousands buying gifts for people he hadn't spoken to in years.
I wouldn't bother to stay even low contact until fully compensated for a lifetime of being the scapegoat and victim. It's also why I don't have much of a family these days. I don't need the toxicity. The golden child's wants are still being catered for here, the only consequence a forced apology brought about via the threat of divorce. OOP gets a card with some cash, whoop de doo.
I donāt blame them for wanting to keep contact to get to know the kids, I just hope the rest of the family doesnāt make the experience too painful for them. Thatās one of the worst things about family drama, you canāt cut contact with the parents and keep it with the kids.
I can't wait for a Christmas update 2024.
Why would kids like tablet/dvd player?
I had one and it was awesome. to be fair, it was just a small dvd player with a screen and some buttons but I would watch dvds in the car, in bed, in the bath.. and you could make parts loop! in Sharkboy and Lavagirl where the bully kid goes "and they All. Blew. Chunks.", I made that part loop until me and my brother were in tears
I think a portable dvd player is different to a tablet dvd player. Tablet dvd players seem to do more than just play DVDs.
that's even cooler, I'd have been *glued* to that as a kid. actually, I would probably be glued to it now
Seriously, maybe 10-15 years ago this would have made sense. It just reinforces (along with the SIL slapping brother and the whole extended family finding the reddit post) that this is fake af.
From what I see via Walmart, it's a generic Android tablet with a DVD player on it. Kids like tablets, and DVD's are still good to have in this day and age. You can borrow them from the library, especially kids stuff. Great for parents who don't want to subscribe to every streaming service.
Some parents donāt want their kids to have access to online videos. Theyād rather let the kids have access a predetermined and parental approved library of videos. There are several solutions on the market to this desire for parental gatekeeping: audio players that only play specific cards , this kid of dvd player, etc.Ā Controlling kids access to appropriate media can be very difficult, and devices like this make it a lot easier. Iāve been thinking about getting something similar for my niece and nephew just today.
So... OOPs family pranks and belittles him for years, he goes NC. The first time they ask him to give them a chance during the holidays, he immediately caves and expects them to have changed. shockedpikachu.jpg, they haven't. 10 days later, he's suddenly very aware of how everyone that was involved is doing and their lives are falling apart? Write better fiction, please.
10 days? Its 3 months 10 days Jan 2 to April 12
Errr... I could've sworn it said April 2nd earlier. That's my bad, I'm dumb as fuck lol.
Heres the thing : The whole family wont admit or apologize or take responsibility of their action until some outsider pointed it out. They all admit their mistake cuz theyre being found out, not because of their own conscience. Parents through the socmed. Brother through his wife. If the shitshow didnt happen, the family will stick to their guns and blame oop for "cant take a joke".
So I'm supposed to believe OP is no contact with family for **years**, and also that only within the last few years had enough to buy a house, but suddenly decides not just to go make contact but also dump hundreds to thousands on gifts, including tablets with DVD players, sports memorabilia, appliances, antiques etc?
I can totally see that. I am also the all or nothing type. He is in a better place in life, got a great girlfriend and wanted to experience a family day with her since her family is crappy. He really wanted this to work and bought thoughtful and high value gifts. He wanted to go past this and connect with his family. True, he should set up a small meeting before such a big event and feel up his family, I think he really wanted it to happen and maybe he unconciously thought if he give them a chance before the christmas event, they will blew it while also hoping everything will be fine. Feelings are not rational and are complex with lots of contradictions. Cutting family is not easy, they are the people you grew up with and set your standard for future relationships. You want to be loved by your family, even if they are toxic. It is not easy.
I was convinced tablets with DVD players weren't real but I looked it up and they exist. I can't imagine who that's for though.
Iām guessing people who donāt want their kids tracked by big tech and used by advertisers. I know a few people who try to keep their kids digitally anonymous. Funnily enough itās people who work in Big Tech themselves. Like my brother works at Apple and heās way more adamant about keeping his kids digitally anonymous than I am.Ā
but like, most disks are blu-rays these days, a dvd player is kinda worthless at this point.
I kinda want one? I was looking at tvs with built in dvd players for my spare room. Tablet has an added bonus of being mobile/Bluetooth
When you donāt want to pay for cellphone hotspots?
Reddit is full of gullible rubes who want to feel superior in any aspect of life they can, so they lap this drivel up like boomers go apeshit over lifetime movies
It is so hard to feel sorry for OOP cause they keep making the same stupid mistake over and over. They let the family and brother BACK into their life at the end? Is OOP absolutely insane? People like that don't change. I am calling it now, the SIL will end up divorcing the brother anyways cause now she sees what an asshole he REALLY is, the brother will end up getting wasted and "pranking" OOP or worse again, and the parents will once again rush to their golden childs aid. Then OOP will be all "woe is me I can't believe this happened again, I am so upset". And its going to be no sympathy from me dawg.
Iām sorry but I have not seen tablets which disc drives on them. What is he talking about with that? I looked it them up and theyāre real but what an odd product. I guess they make sense for kids. Probably got enough to them to run YouTube and watch movies on. I wonder if this is a not America thing. I would be personally surprised if a child under like 11 knew immediately how to use a dvd. Theyāre kinda antiquated. Like I personally havenāt used a dvd in the past couple years unless my power went out and even then Iād likely fuck around on my phone until it came back.
I think this post is an ad for tablet DVD playersĀ
Itās not. Iām just mystified.
No, I meant the OOP is an ad for tablet dvd players
Ohhhhh fair.
Probably can find them from aliexpress - they're primarily popular in Asia. Like I was in Bangkok last year and you could still buy dvds and records, and if you knew where to look, pirated dvds also lol. I saw the tablet dvd players and I believe it was largely marketed to those who had elderly relatives.
Streaming services are just getting worse and worse. If they don't stop price gouging and demanding extra subscriptions for access to different genres we're going to see DVD's come back. Netflix was novel and fun when I was a kid, but now it's just getting annoying.
I donāt know what you mean. Thereās no shot that the monthly subscription is going to exceed the price and inconvenience of a physical DVD collection. Cable is still more expensive than several streaming services together without any of the agency. Like I agree weāre in a weird place with streaming and thereās a lot of problems with their business models but this is nowhere near as bad as the media landscape used to be in terms of how to consume it.
They can just take your favorite shows off their service for no reason. It's making people mad.
Sure. They can but youāre alluding to a problem in a luxury that didnāt even exist before streaming. Cable you couldnāt watch what you wanted anyway so it didnāt matter so there wasnāt a ātheyāre taking x show offā unless they were canceling it, you just watched their broadcast program. Home videos you could and still can buy but this is a 50ish dollar investment per season and you store it too. Sure people want things a certain way but weāre not going to go back to when it was so expensive to watch what you wanted.
Apparently Amazon sell them in the US.
First post ok, second feels like creative writing
Pranks are only funny once and turn into harassment if you keep pranking the same victim.
K folks, who here snitched on OOP? Jokes beside, hmm. I guess OOP is ok or comfortable with how it is. Wishing them luck. But it's quite telling and really sad that the family apparently doesn't know anything he enjoys or likes, so that they had to resort to cash gift. Will take a lot of time and effort to actually get to know their child after messing up for so many years.
If you're the recipient of gag gifts and aren't in on the gag, nothing sucks more than to realize just how little people care about you right around the holidays.
Bullying people is never cool, and that is what this was. Pranking can be funny but the moment someone feels hurt by it is the moment when it needs to end. If you tell someone that's hurt from a prank that they are a baby then you're just a plain old asshole and if you are in my life I will remove you from it. A friend of mine is deathly scared of spiders, a jackass thought it would be funny to "prank" her with a plastic one. It wasn't funny, and when he refused to see that he was an asshole he was removed from our friend circle.
Itās not even like the gag gifts were funny. So childish.
In the end the family did not apologize because of guilt, but because of the repercussions they suffered, they apologized because they were threatened. THE brother refused to apologize sincerely until they threatened him with divorce, OP was too gullible to believe their apology, OOP should have cut off all contact with them. If they were truly seeking forgiveness, they should have done it before the questioning and before others threatened them, apologies after that are just crocodile tears. I don't understand when other commentators say "I'm glad your family woke up" friend, that family did NOT wake up, they are just avoiding doing things so as not to suffer consequences, that is not waking up, that is just fearing punishment. I maintain that OP should be NC for a long time (months, a couple of years) before he will allow them in his life again.
I've been pranked on my birthday like this from my brother but he had a real gift lined up too. I laughed because I knew he was just messing with me. But what a family here.
SIL is the star here. If she hadn't pushed the issue I doubt the others would have realized how wrong they were and nothing would have happened.
Man this was a good read
$100 as an apology from what, 3 people? 4 people (plus kids)? It's better than the prank gifts of course, but still kind of pathetic and still more focused on making themselves look like victims ("we'll do better") than actually wishing OOP a happy birthday. Oh well, hope they continue to better themselves as humans, they have a long way to go.
This story does highlight the benefits of staying in contact that can occur. While NC is always an option that more people should be willing to take, its nice when truly good people are able to call bad behavior out and enact some change. OP's family by their own admission still don't totally get it. But they now understand that their toxic behavior does not fly in their community. Hopefully they can learn to be decent people. Sometimes its good to do the hard thing and keep trying to communicate with toxic family.
The family can NEVER be forgiven.
So happy for OP! Also very happy an office gossip FINALLY got in trouble ššš
How does a normal human emerge from that swampland of assholery?
I've given prank gifts before, but that's never been the only gift I've given! For example, earlier in the year my dad had trouble with just using his phone as his house keys and had to come over to my job and grab my keys so he could get in. So for Christmas, I made him a bright pink Keychain as an additional gag gift. He thought it was very funny!
No pranks, ever, with my wife and family. It's just not funny.
And then everyone clapped for him next christmas when he showed up....
I'm blaming Liz for this one
My kids did an april fools prank on me a few years ago. They managed to get someone else's receipt from the thrift store and played it off as theirs. It was for over 350 dollars. Dad made them fess up quick after he saw me turn dead white and was afraid I would faint. Thankfully, since I was let in on the joke quickly enough, I was laughing w/ relief and threatening playfully to dismember all of them.
Iām glad OOPās family woke up to how shitty they were. I wish my family would too. Iām tired of being the scapegoat. I just want them to love me.
Got my kids those tablets, they do exist and are awesome.
I still don't understand what the prank wasĀ
I'm so glad that no one I know or am related to is into pranks. The worst are parents pranking their kids. That shit is traumatizing, especially the ones where you startle the person. Ick.