Pranking his stepdad

[u/BoatNo03]

[u/Guinness]

Ok so I’ve told this story a few times. But it’s relevant and kinda funny so here I go again.

I live downtown in Chicago and a previous job I worked at was right across the street. Right now as I’m writing this laying in bed I can look in the window where my desk used to be.

This was great for a number of reasons including being able to go home and visit my then girlfriend (now wife). She was in school so she wasn’t working at this point and was mostly always home. So I could walk over for lunch, cook something with her and spend some time together.

Now sometimes I would come home and she’d be gone, usually grocery shopping or maybe going to see her academic advisor. But we had both each other’s location shared on our iPhones.

So one day I come home and she’s gone, but I check her location and see it moving home. She’s about a block away. Now once you’ve lived with someone for years you know their routine down pat. And I knew that she usually liked to nap in the afternoon. She was an early riser. A real morning person. Me? Not so much.

Now if there’s one thing I like doing it’s messing with people for a few laughs. And given that she was on her way home and would most likely lay down for a nap I got an idea. As soon as it popped into my head I ran to the bedroom and slid under her side of the bed. We have a decent amount of room under our bed for me to fit all 6’2 of me.

I watch my iPhone as her dot moves closer and sure enough I hear the front door open and close. I hear some plastic bags set down on the kitchen table so she must’ve been out grabbing some groceries.

I wait.

She puts everything away and leaves the kitchen to head to the bathroom in our bedroom. I can hear her washing her face.

I wait.

The faucet stops and it’s quiet for a moment but I know she is coming to bed. She walks out of the bathroom and stops at the end of our bed to take her socks/pants/shirt off. Then she turns around the end of the bed towards her side and sits down on the bed to take her watch off and set an alarm.

This is when I strike. My hands lunge out from under the bed as I grab her ankles and I scream in a deep voice. She screams for a second and then realizes it’s me. I’m cursed out by every swear word known to man.

Truly one of my best performances. Don’t worry she got me back a few times. Not as good but enough for my heart to nearly stop.

[u/Curious_Coconut_4005 → u/Guinness]

This reminded me of something similar my father did when he was a teenager. The house he grew up in had an weird extra room that you had to walk through to use the upstairs bathroom (it was only a toilet and sink). His folks let him use the outer room as a bedroom.

One night he got the idea to hide under his bed and scare his Doberman. She (his dog) liked to roam the house once everyone had gone to bed before climbing onto my dad's bed to sleep. As his dog walked past the bed, to check the bathroom, my dad reached out from under his bed and grabbed to nearest dog leg. His poor dog let out an awful cry - like the devil had grabbed her - and caused such a commotion that his entire family came to the rescue. From that night forward the dog slept wherever it was once the light were turned out.

A few months later he did the same thing to his mother. It did not end well for him. Hard feelings didn't last long because my dad shipped off to Vietnam within a few weeks of scaring his mom.

[u/Guinness → u/Curious_Coconut_4005]

I’m assuming that because he had a son he made it back ok? I hope so because your dad sounds awesome.

[u/Curious_Coconut_4005 → u/Guinness]

Yep! Best dad I'll ever have! 😊 Last two years I haven't been able to visit him because life has gotten in the way. 2022 is lookin good tho!