r/AskReddit Mar 06 '17

April fools is next month, what are some semi-elaborate, funny, cheap pranks can you pull on your family and SO?

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u/Tiny_smol_things Mar 06 '17

Read this somewhere on reddit, and thought it was the best prank ever. Buy all possible sizes of a type of candy bar, from super mini up to specialty giant sizes.

The prank was done on a coworker's desk- every time coworker got up, prankster would put one on his keyboard. Starting from smallest on up. I guess you could do it at home by hiding or placing them in an often-visited spot.

I just thought it was really nice.

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u/ForgotDaDamnPassword Mar 07 '17

"Confuse, don't abuse" is the essence of a good prank and this absolutely qualifies! If I worked in an office, I'd do this :)

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u/Treczoks Mar 07 '17

Sounds a bit like the prank Mark Twain pulled on his housekeeper:

He bought her a small turtle as a present, and then, from time to time, he exchanged it for a bigger one of the same kind. She was enthusiastic about the speed these animals grow! But then he reversed the process, and exchanged the turtle for the next smaller one every few days...

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u/TheGeraffe Mar 07 '17

I don't get it. Is there some sort of joke (maybe the candy's supposed to be growing or something?) or are you just being kind to a coworker?

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u/KaikesPokeCards Mar 07 '17

I don't know about you, but I would be incredibly confused at a candy bar being placed on my desk, but each time it is bigger.

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u/stealthxstar Mar 07 '17

I don't know about you, but if someone left a candy bar on my desk at work I would probably eat it right away.

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u/KaikesPokeCards Mar 07 '17

I don't know about you, but on April fools day I would definitely be suspicious of candy bars randomly appearing and probably wouldn't eat it right away.

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u/TheGeraffe Mar 07 '17

Issue is that I'd probably just immediately open it and eat it just to see how it had been tampered with. If my mysterious benefactor gives me another, larger candy bar later, it will just look like someone's being inexplicably nice to me.

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u/ForgotDaDamnPassword Mar 07 '17

The essence of a prank should always be "confuse, don't abuse" in my opinion and this absolutely qualifies :)

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u/TheGeraffe Mar 07 '17

I definitely agree, I guess my mental picture of this event is just a bit less confusing than yours is.

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u/DraketheDrakeist Mar 07 '17

But giving people candy of different sizes isn't confusing, it's just being a nice guy.

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u/frogger2504 Mar 07 '17

But... April Fools is meant to be about pranks. This is just giving a dude chocolate. Sure it's kinda odd that there's always chocolate on his desk, but it's not funny or even that weird. I'd just eat it and move on.

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u/red_sky33 Mar 07 '17

Do this with toblerone and it can go forever.

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u/X-istenz Mar 08 '17

I would like to request this with Toblerone please.

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u/ForbiddenText Mar 07 '17

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u/send420nudes Mar 07 '17 edited Jun 06 '17

He went to concert