re: Best April Fool's Pranks?

One year I decided I needed to prank my wife in the not so normal way I typically do.

I got a plan together, while she was at work I started texting her and made my case that I did a lot for her and for our life together and I thought it was only fair that we brought another chick into the bedroom and had a 3 way.

I'm talking, I really sold it as something I believed I deserved and that we needed to pursue. FYI, I have no intentions of having a 3 way with my wife.

When she got home from work, she wouldn't even look at me, completely pissed off. So I gave her a final ultimatum that she needed to have an answer by tomorrow, one day after April fools day.

Her response was, "you mother fricker" then she stormed off. Apparently, she had already consulted friends and some family members that I had gone off the deep end, and that I was probably having an affair.

When the dust settled a day or so later it became funny as hell, friends and family members still mess with her about it years later and she gets a good laugh out of it.

Looking back, it was a pretty dumbass prank, but she had gotten to the point where she wouldn't fall for anything unless it was extreme. She now officially doesn't believe a word out of my mouth on April fools day

In High School, I had a part-time job at a manufacturing facility where I could work weekends if they needed me.

I worked summers and over Christmas there as well. They trusted me.

We had a project that required working over a whole weekend, Friday, March 30th through Sunday, April 1st.

Before I left Saturday evening, I opened the Coke machine and rearranged the soft drinks; I put the Sprites where the Root Beers should be and Root Beers where the Cokes should be, etc.

It took a while on Sunday for folks to realize something was fricky.

Folks then got free drinks, I had the soft drink machine key.

I am not sure why this got downvoted.

I replaced my coworkers lotion with mayonnaise. Took her like a week to figure it out and when she asked me to smell her lotion because she thought it was off, I about lost it laughing.

Years ago, a co-worker grabbed some dog poop with a stick, and rubbed a good piece of it under my desk. I had no idea where the smell came from, I kept on checking my shoes and carpet around. I was in this situation for several days until it occurred to duck under the desk, and there it was, it was the size of a chewed gum but very powerful.

When I was a very young and green apprentice I had an even younger and greener helper working with me....young black kid who was about 6 feet tall and weighed all of about 80 pounds. As good a kid as you'd ever want to meet. Everyone on the job liked to frick with him because he was easy going and took it very well. One of our co-workers told me to send him to the gang box after lunch to get something and he'd (the co-worker) would be hiding in the gang box and when he opened it he would leap out at him. We gathered up a crowd and I sent him to the gangbox.....when he lifted the lid that fricker jumped up out of that thing and hollered like a madman and that kid lit out and was just about to step off into space 17 stories above west Peachtree street when I grabbed him.....had he taken one more step it could have gone either way. We were all scared to death....

So the kid wants to get even. We decide that we are going to talk the guy into hiding in the gang box again and when he shut the lid we would lock him in it and have the crane lower him to the street. 17 stories up. This was a site built gang box, not one of the fancy steel ones. It was built out of 3/4 inch plywood. Luckily for everyone for some reason the contractor we worked for bought a bunch of steel gang boxes and when we flew the one he would have been hiding in off the building it fell apart before it got to the street level....had he been in it he would have fell at least a dozen stories.

Was working on another high rise in Atlanta back in the mid 80s and there was an off duty cop hired to direct traffic while materials were being delivered. He was a prick....just a double barreled arse hole who had to be tolerated because the police department doled out those after hour jobs like a mafia don and if you did not like it you could pound sand. He was a particular pain in the arse for the iron workers on the job who are not exactly a sociable lot to begin with. Their flying steel was the bulk of the reason he was there and it irked him to have to come out of the job trailer to do anything so he gave them a helluva a hard time. One day one of the iron workers who had been in several run ins with him met him coming into work and said "good morning". He was wearing a noticeably red tee shirt and a pair of liberty overalls....important to the story. About lunch time that cop was directing traffic when he heard a horrible scream and looking up saw that iron worker in the red tee shirt and blue denim overalls tumbling head over heels off the 22nd story steel.....you could hear him screaming all over downtown Atlanta as he fell toward the street. He hit the ground just behind a plywood wall behind the man lift. That cop was struck dumb...standing there staring in the direction he had hit but not making a move. Almost immediately that iron worker, dressed in a red tee shirt and denim over alls, came out from behind that plywood wall brushing himself off and looked at the cop and said "dammit, now I gotta climb all the way back up there....". The cop collapsed. Had to be taken to Grady in an Ambulance....almost died of a heart attack. No one ever saw or knew how those iron workers had retrieved that rag stuffed dummy in a red tee shirt and denim overalls but they did it.....and that cop never came back to that job site and the one who replace him was about as nice as he could be.....

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The Sports Illustrated Issue of Sidd Finch, flamethrower for the Mets.

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still one of the greatest pranks ever