Who doesn’t love a well-done practical joke to help lighten the atmosphere at family gatherings? Well, lots of people apparently don’t like pranks… and it’s usually those family members who have a stick-up-their-ass about perfectionism who don’t love a good prank if my experience in the matter is any indicator.
You know who I am talking about — those family members that MUST at all costs ensure that everyone is following THEIR plan for the “perfect” event, and are “mortified” when a prank occurs because it’s just not “nice.” Hehe!
Which, let’s be honest, their stick-up-the-ass responses really makes it more fun. Am I right?!
Where is the best place to do a practical joke in a house?
The bathroom.
Why is this one of the best places for a prank? Well, in addition to it being a space where people are pretty vulnerable — naked and such — it’s also where nearly every guest have to go into at some point; AND it’s not “weird” or unusual for you as a guest to go in and shut the door. It actually would be strange if you went in to use a bathroom and left the door open, just like it’d be weird for you as a guest to go into a bedroom and shut the door… but I digress.
So what prank to do once you are in the bathroom with the door shut?
We’ve all likely heard of rigging the toilet with plastic wrap or configuring the flush to spray at people right?! But for me, I like a slow-burn. Something that might not be noticed for awhile…
If you’ve been following along with me for awhile you likely know that I LOVE books. And what do a lot of people have in their bathroom on the commode? Yes, reading material.
And where is a handy place for reading material? Yes, the back of the toilet.
So here’s a few slow-burn pranks that are favorites of mine:
The Leave-an-object-behind Prank A.K.A. The Bathroom Book Prank
Twists and spin-offs — hang a piece of religious art, mix something that’s culturally off into the hosts decor, something ugly.
Example story, I was in a wedding party with my friend Celia, her parents had champagne glasses made for attendees with the bride and grooms names on them and they very kindly gifted me an entire case of these champagne glasses… what was I going to do with them you ask? Well simple, each time I went to friends houses I placed two in their cupboard behind the first row of glasses. To this day I just get a little pleasure thinking that perhaps they spent some time wondering who the heck “Celia and Leon” were and why they couldn’t recall being at the wedding.
