Left-Star2240 t1_jeca98a wrote on March 30, 2023 at 11:32 PM

I worked with an optometrist whose family celebrated April Fool’s like a holiday.

One year they took the contents of one kid’s backpack and bubble wrapped them. Another kid they took the music mechanism from a greeting card and installed in their text book. The third they put one of those fake severed legs they sell at Halloween and made it look like it was sticking out of his trunk.

huskeya4 t1_jed6o0c wrote on March 31, 2023 at 3:47 AM

I went hard on my mom one year in high school. I drew a tiny spider in marker on the toilet paper. I flipped two cups of water upside down on the counter (so the water stayed in them). I searched all of her shoes so they were the left on the right and the right on the left so when she put them on, they’d be on the wrong foot. I taped a sign to the trunk saying to honk at her. I can’t even remember all of them anymore but it ended up being like 13 pranks. The only thing I didn’t mess with was the coffee. And I made sure none of my pranks would actually make her late for work. I did wake up early that day to her scream in the bathroom but I just kind of laughed and went back to bed. Apparently she took one look at the counter with the cups and was like “she’s cleaning that up”. She said she’s did spend her entire first cup of coffee trying to figure out how I got them on the counter without spilling them before she decided she wasn’t awake enough for that shit. Then she couldn’t figure out why everyone was honking at her going into work until she checked the car when she arrived. We got a good laugh out of it when she got home and she made me demonstrate how to flip the glasses and clean them up without spilling using a plastic table mat.

NoVaFlipFlops t1_jedhcx5 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 5:38 AM

Epic. Taking notes for my six yo. This is his favorite holiday, but he thinks wonderful surprises count, too.

HatchlingChibi t1_jeelsny wrote on March 31, 2023 at 1:32 PM

…how did you get them on the counter without spilling them?

treznor70 t1_jeexnn7 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 2:55 PM

Put something thin and flat on top of the cup (like a drink coaster or something), flip it over, put in on the counter upside down, pull out the thing you put on top.

huskeya4 t1_jeexobw wrote on March 31, 2023 at 2:55 PM

A sturdy piece of plastic. You cover the opening of the cup with it and flip the cup. Keep your hand under the plastic for support and the suction will keep the water inside. Then set the plastic right next to the edge of the counter and slide the cup off the plastic and onto the counter fairly quickly (the crack between the plastic and the counter can break the seal so move quick but don’t knock the cup over). Then wipe up the little bit of water trail that’s left behind. To pick the cup back up, just reverse the process.

graboidian t1_jef2g9l wrote on March 31, 2023 at 3:26 PM

> To pick the cup back up, just reverse the process.

or you could put a large pot next to the counter, then slide the glass off the edge, using the pot to catch the water.

LaneMcD t1_jecinvp wrote on March 31, 2023 at 12:34 AM

Those first two sound fun... the third not so much

Flare4123 t1_jecv54r wrote on March 31, 2023 at 2:09 AM

I think depending on the family, the kid probably knew EXACTLY who's idea it was the moment they saw the severed leg sticking out of their car's trunk.

And it'd be kind of hilarious hearing the story afterwards of them having to explain to a police officer that it was a family member's prank and that it's just a fake leg, not a real one.