LaTigresse
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I am tired of gloom and doom, bitching and whining, snarking and snarling (not really but.....) AND I am finally feeling somewhat close to human again! I can breathe through both nostrils and haven't felt chilled or feverish in almost 24 hours.
Sooo, today I am feeling a bit more like my usual self.
In this delightful shop of horrors I call, my place of employment, most of us occasionally order personal items to be shipped here rather than to our homes. No big deal. My lead pressman tends to enjoy doing it more frequently than the rest of us, but again, no big deal.
Two weeks ago he had ordered some items and was promised they were in stock and would ship out in the next day or two. Last week he began bitching that he had not received them yet and that when he checked on them, both via the net and via a long drawn out, automated phone hell phone call later, that "they were in stock and would ship soon!" but no definite as to when "soon" was. Yesterday, he still had not received his package and called again, getting a similarly vague answer.
Well today his package arrived. Given the type of items he purchased they were shipped in a heavy plastic bag. The bag had been torn open about 8 inches on one corner.
My devious mind being what it is.....thought "we should exchange the items he ordered with a similar type of item, only ugly and totally different than those he purchased before giving him the package!"
The boss was too chicken "ohhhh nooooo!!!" and ran. The graphics guy wouldn't even turn around and acknowledge he heard us talking about it. But me being me, was not to be detoured. Off I went, to the other company in the same building, to find the most obnoxious and obviously incorrect replacements I could find and exchange them, then tape the bag back up and set it here on the front counter.
Deed done. Unsuspecting victim returns from personal errand and sees bag, before I can even tell him his package arrived, while I was on the phone. Starts poking at it where it had been torn and I mouth to him....."thats the way it arrived". He digs around for some scissors and opens the bag, fortunately just as I hang up the phone. More poking around and a big "WHAT THE FUCK!!" as he pulls out some very ugly items.
Mad as a wet hen (something my grandmother used to say) he gets ready to go storming off and make a phone call then stops in his tracks, turns around, and sees the boss giggling like a school girl. "YOU GUYS!" and of course then, I was also giggling like a fool. And then so did the hapless victim because he was quite impressed with his little set up, knowing he would have done the same thing.
So off I go with the bag of ugly crap to exchange back for his goodies.
This was just my latest practical joke in a life long career.
What is the best practical joke you have ever played on someone and/or had played on you??
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