I was hanging out in a trendy cafe the other day waiting for someone (this does not happen often, believe me when I say I am not the trendiest person out there !) and I decided to write down all the pranks I have been involved with, after being inspired by the Instant Julian prank. I also went and saw James Veitch at the comedy festival and it reminded me of all the things I’ve done over the years.
I ended up with classifications of pranks: Work pranks, non work pranks, and pranks that have been played on me.
Unfortunately much of this stuff I have done in the days before everyone had a camera, so some are merely memories and I don’t have pretty photos for you. Sometimes though I do have pictures.
So strap in and I will go through some of them now. Part one
Things that people have left in or at my house
The worm has turned
No idea who left the worm has turned, this was on my doorstep one day.
Spider-man animal farm guitar
A child’s toy guitar that was spider-man-themed but mostly had farm animals that would bark or moo when you pressed them, in a package that claimed I would get infinite pleasure from it, turned up one day.
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The weekly balls
I had a friend who lived very close, and my property backs on to a small lane-way. Every week or so he would come and throw balls into my back yard. So what he didn’t know was the neighbor’s kid often threw balls in my backyard and when I found them I would just lob them back over.
I did wonder at the sheer amount of strange balls the neighbor’s kid was throwing…pink tennis balls, randomly shaped, ODD balls, not his usual tennis balls. I honestly didn’t think more than ‘huh’.
The prank ended when a giant mechanical-creepy-legged soccer ball that played ‘ey ey ey olay’ Ricky Martin soccer song was left on my doorstep. By sad co-incidence I arrived home just as it was being left by the perp, and so I caught him in the act.
It was pretty glorious and I laugh to think of what the neighbors must have thought to have balls they didn’t own appear in their yard for months.
Coooo. Coooooo.
owls
These owls appeared at a party at my house, dotted around the place. In fact I found owl themed things from the next few parties too. I have found creepy photos of Victorian children, a china mug, some splades.
I know this is truly my own fault as I tend to leave things at other people’s houses at parties. Random ornaments, you name it, I’ll leave it, I’ll just slide things in. That is however another post.
Grave Robbing
I assume someone was walking through a cemetery one day and found a marble cross that had been knocked off a grave and went “Avril can have that.” ….Thanks!
In this photo too is also a red concrete mushroom. I came home one day to find red concrete mushrooms all over the yard. I have also found various garden gnomes over the years, some macrame pot holders, a plastic skull door knocker (I kept this up there. It’s still there).
I recently noticed a small LED solar light up meerkat holding a pair of binoculars had come to live in the front yard.
Cheesecake heaven
Once I opened the door to find a giant professional painted shop sign (from cheesecake heaven) on my doorstep. The cherub on the sign’s face was sporting Britney Spears’s face. It amused me for weeks. Not sure why I never took a photo of this.
What I truly love is that friends of mine clearly saw it on a rubbish pile and thought “Avril needs that”.
Annakin Skywalker
The poem reads:
Justin Beieber
How I really need you
I want you to be part o’ my world
I wanna hold your hand
It’s unlike sand
Your skins’ so soft and smooth
You and I together
Never say never
Wanna sith it up with you, woah-ah
Forget about Leia
Come to Dadday-me-ah
And say I’m your Chosen One
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Random things I have done
I have another site I publish stories and ditties under my writing name – so I don’t have to rewrite these ones!
Gnomes
There was a dude I worked with who I tried to get involved in the team, I did this (actually I failed to do this) by what I like to refer to as ‘Go hard or go Gnome’.
Elves
I decided WILSONSELFSTORAGE in East Malvern should be mildly pranked for the fact they ran WILSONSELF too close together on their signage.
Car hustle
I sold my crappy old car online and someone tried to scam me so I responded appropriately.
Wet Waste
I worked for a company in the late 90s who instituted a new ‘wet waste’ policy and left what I decided were quite aggressive notices everywhere. So I rewrote them.
Justin Beiber Doll
JustinBeiberDoll. Not really a prank, but I find it funny.
There will be more pranks coming. I have literally three pages of notes and I keep remembering more. Geez.
