Today I decided to clean the refrigerator. I thought it would be a nice suprise for my roommate to come home to a clean fridge, so I got the garbage can and started going through plastic bags and tupperware to see what should stay and what should go. I felt so productive!
I threw out the enchiladas that had started to mold, the cheese that was no good anymore, the lime that had shriveled up and died in the cold recesses of the fridge. I was just kind of humming along, going item by item when I found a small green tupperware container waaay in the back. I started to open it, and before I even took the lid all the way off I screamed and dropped it on the floor, narrowly missing the counter with my head as I jerked backward in fear.
Inside this tupperware was a face. A human face, with eyelashes and everything. As I bravely picked it up again and opened it I saw that it was a plastic face from a child’s doll.
Freaking out, I called my roommate and yelled at her, “Why the hell is there a baby face in the refrigerator?” She started to laugh and told me she and her boyfriend won this hideous pumpkin orange doll from a crane machine a few months ago and couldn’t figure out what to do with it. They decided it would be funny to take off the face and put it in the fridge so I would be suprised when I found it. Suprised indeed! Once I figured out what had happened and that the cats were not trying to take over the world in some strange, Godfatheresque fashion (though a face in the refrigerator is better than a horse head in the bed to be certian) it was the funniest thing that I had experienced in a long time. We both laughed and laughed and she cursed the fact that she was not home to see me experience the wonder of the cold baby face. Now I have to come up with some sort of suitable revenge. Any ideas?
Kudos to your friend for holding out so long - I would have tried to nudge you along at some point, which would most assuredly diminished the effect.
I may have told this story here before…
My current roommate is too nice (read: boring 
) to pull a prank on me, but when I moved into my last house my roomie at the time pulled a good one on me. A friend of his came down from Berkeley to stay with us for a while, having a pretty new bachelor’s degree and no decent income. (That’s not the prank, I was cool with that. Bear with me here.) Right after the guy moved in, my roommate pulled me aside and quietly informed me that he (the friend) was a hardcore Christian, and that I should probably try not to say “anything bad about Jesus” around him. That sounded reasonable–wait a minute, didn’t I just hear the guy say “I don’t believe in God” on the phone a few minutes ago? No, insisted the roomie, he was just kidding. Seemed odd, but I chalked it up to the liberal atmosphere of Berkeley rubbing off on him.
Turned out later that he told his friend the same thing, the idea being that one day the topic of Jesus (etc.) would eventually come up and the two of us–both actually hardcore atheists–would nervously say nice things about Jesus until we had an old-school revival going down, then the roommate would walk in and tell us we were both atheists and he was just fucking with us (and then, presumably, he would run as fast as he could). Never panned out. I devised a plan to get back at him which also never panned out–by the time I got a chance to arrange it I owed him a favor, and anyway the pranks had stopped from his side.
My idea was as follows. My roommate had started a new job at a computer store in a nearby suburb with a significant white power population. I had found a metalhead who could convincingly play a suburban redneck (the similarities in physical appearance are striking if you pay attention), who would approach him and ask about finding a computer. While perusing the aisles with my roommate (and pretending not to notice he’s of mixed race), he would casually begin to insult various large groups of non-white people, gradually stepping up the intensity until my roommate exploded and unleashed a fierce tirade upon him. At which point, of course, I would enter the scene laughing my ass off and explain what had actually happened. I even had fake white-supremacist literature and business cards ready to print for the occasion.
I think that was one of the better original prank ideas I’ve had. May not work as well for your situation.
Oh, I just remembered another great prank my roommate pulled on a friend of his. He had his buddy believing the bathroom light at his place was busted for three months. He would tell him to hold a flashlight between his head and his shoulder while he was peeing. Three months! He got all of their mutual friends and anyone who happened to be in the house in on it and it worked until the guy actually tried the light switch one day.
This prank is almost certainly not adaptable if you have either electricity or neighbors. But I did think it was a wonderful idea, and if you can somehow make it work, go for it.
Can’t remember where I heard about it, but anyway…a bunch of guys go on an overnight camping trip, planning to get up early in the morning and go fishing. They’re in a remote cabin, no one around, no internet/TV/radio. One guy falls asleep before the others, and they decide to pull a prank on him. They get every single watch and clock around, and set them forward three hours.
Then, they all go to sleep and get up at “four a.m.” (really 1 am, but the guy doesn’t know that) as planned. Naturally, it is still dark. But after a couple of hours go by and they are out on the boat, the sun doesn’t come up. Everybody starts remarking how “geez, it’s almost 6 a.m…shouldn’t it be light at this time of year?” and faux-panicking that somehow, the end of the world has come. Scared the guy out of his wits, or so I recall.
I used to work in a women’s clothing store. We’d decorate the place for holidays, and one Halloween we used a lot of that fake spiderweb stuff and plastic spiders all over the place. We always saved our decorations. I used to put those little spiders everywhere. In the fridge, around the clock, on the couch in our lounge, in the cash drawer…the other two women were squeamish, and always hollered when they found the new lurking place, but then they’d always want me to figure out a place to scare the other woman.
My best effort was when I taped a spider to the mouthpiece of the phone, as the manager always answered the phone, and usually didn’t look at it right away. She answered it, greeted the customer, and then jumped nearly a foot.
Yeah, it’s a wonder I didn’t get fired. But I was the only one who could spell and figure out percentages.
I love ‘depth charge’ pranks.
Last year a friend got a Scrabble set for Xmas. She invited us to her house this New Year’s Day, and while she was out of the room, we opened the box up, removed all the vowels and hid them. And then never said anything.
She then invited us to dinner a couple of weeks ago, and we dropped into conversation how much we loved games, and did she have any? Sure enough, she hauls out the Scrabble, saying she hadn’t played it yet. Meanwhile her roomie, who was in on it too, distributed the vowels under the table to the rest of us, and we switched them into our letters without her noticing.
She spent the entire game cursing her luck, and we spent the entire game saying “stop whining”, “a bad workman blames his tools” etc. She didn’t twig at all, until her roomie told her what we’d done the next day, whereupon I got an SMS from her that said “gv m bck m fckng vwls!”. 
Well, Chiahuaha dogs, for a starter.
http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0202dog-freeze02-ON.html
Cruel S.O.B.s :eek:
At least they didn’t kill the dog or put it into the oven like the criminals did in another story. I don’t know that they really meant to be cruel with this one.
*“Dude, what do we do with this dog? It won’t shut up and it just bit my ankle!”
“Put it in the bathroom!”
“Nah, man, there might be valuable meds in there.”
Criminals look around for a good holding area which won’t interfere with their looting.
“Here. Put it in here.”
“Dude! That’s a freezer!”
Criminal sticks his hand inside. “It ain’t that cold, and besides, dogs live outside in the winter all the time! And they’ll probably find it soon.”
*
So, it might be that it was caused by flawed thinking, not a desire to hurt the dog. Either way, they deserve to have the book thrown at them, but I’m not going to put them in the “monster” category until we learn whether it was just stupidity or actually done with evil intent.
Fire.
Brilliant!
Go to butcher and get a sheep’s head.
Prank-back.
Do you and your roomate keep canned goods in the kitchen? Number the tops of all the cans with a fat permanent marker. Make a list, which you hide, of which numbers are what product (#4=tomato soup). Then, remove all the labels. Restock pantry with unlabelled cans.
- Bread
- Ketchup
- Ice cubes
My roommate refrigerates bread. What’s so bad about doing that?
I refrigerate ketchup. I like it chilled.
Speaking of ice cubes, I’ve toyed with the idea of putting coffee grounds in my ice cubes. Has anybody tried this?
Slight tweak – put the numbers on the bottom. (Less visible.)
I like the canned goods idea…that seems like it might work. I would like to do something more shocking though, as the can thing doesn’t seem quite on par with the baby doll face thing. I am thinking about trying to get her boyfriend in on a very complicated scheme, but we will see if anything better comes up between now and then.
…uh, is refrigerating bread supposed to be weird? I do this, as does my whole family and my roommate.
There’s a discussion in some other thread about it - some people are complaining that you get cold bread that way, or it gets more dried out. Me, I eat bread with few to no preservatives and so if I want it to not get moldy (I don’t eat it super-fast), I refrigerate it.
(When I read the title of the thread, my first thought was, “Bananas?”)
You can totally refrigerate bananas…they get all brown and nasty on the outside but when you peel and eat them inside they are a perfect.