Innocent Pranks

In high school I began to get a thirst for pranks that would later blossom into large scale events in college. The earliest ones I can remember from high school were rather innocent compared to the epic pranks that would come later in life. The first one I can remember was taking brass tacks and forming them so that when you kicked them into an electrical outlet, they would trip the circuit breaker. If you did the right way, they wouldn’t smoke or spark and give the “joke” away. If any of you youngin’s is readin’ this here blog, don’t do it. I was dumb and lucky I didn’t burn anything down or electrocute myself.

I was in algebra and bored to death. A storm was rumbling through and a couple of times the power went out for a couple of seconds. I was sitting next to the light switches and so I had an idea. The power went out again and before it went back on I turned off the lights. A few seconds later, the power came back on everywhere but in our room. I kept my mouth shut. The teacher was perplexed why the power remained off in our room so he left to find a custodian. A few minutes he returned with the custodian who advised us all to leave the room. He used his ladder to look above the ceiling tiles at all the lights. He was stumped. We sat in the hall until the bell rang for the next period. Teehee.

One day we had a substitute teacher in biology. I convinced a guy named Karl to pretend to cough and complain of smelling gas. Since gas outlets were everywhere in the room, the substitute took us seriously, especially since several other students joined us in coughing. She evacuated the room and once again, I accomplished my task.

But these were only the beginning. For soon I was off to college and would join student security. I would be given the keys to almost everything. And an era of great pranking and joy would begin.