NationStates Jolt Archive

OK, so for the people here who know me somewhat (I think there might be two of you by now), you know that I work 3rd shift at a hotel.

A few hours ago, I had a lovely joke played on me. Somebody thought it would be hilarious to plug up the bathtub and both sinks in their room, and then leave all the fixtures running.

Unfortunatley, it wasn't until the room below them called to complain about water leaking into their room that I learned of this fact.

The people who flooded their room took off, obviously. They have to leave an address and phone number though, which we have on file, so I don't know if they were smoking crack or something to think they were going to get away with this. The police should be speaking with them later today.

Anyways...I had to move a family of four out of the room below the flooded one, and the water has leaked down from the 3rd floor all the way to the first, putting three rooms out of order, and easily causing thousands of dollars of water damage.

So...what is the worst prank or practical joke you have ever fallen victim to?
I could use some cheering up here, it has not been a fun night. So make your stories good ones! :p

OK, so for the people here who know me somewhat (I think there might be two of you by now), you know that I work 3rd shift at a hotel.

A few hours ago, I had a lovely joke played on me. Somebody thought it would be hilarious to plug up the bathtub and both sinks in their room, and then leave all the fixtures running.

Unfortunatley, it wasn't until the room below them called to complain about water leaking into their room that I learned of this fact.

The people who flooded their room took off, obviously. They have to leave an address and phone number though, which we have on file, so I don't know if they were smoking crack or something to think they were going to get away with this. The police should be speaking with them later today.

Anyways...I had to move a family of four out of the room below the flooded one, and the water has leaked down from the 3rd floor all the way to the first, putting three rooms out of order, and easily causing thousands of dollars of water damage.

So...what is the worst prank or practical joke you have ever fallen victim to?
I could use some cheering up here, it has not been a fun night. So make your stories good ones! :p

I've never fallen victim to a practical joke, but I (with some friends) have played one on someone when we were in university halls.

In the corridors of said halls, the doors were set back a few inches from the wall of the corridor. We taped newspapers from wall to wall in front of a friend's door, so that when the door opened (inwards, not into the corridor) there was a wall of paper there. We then screwed up more newspapers and stuffed them down between door and paper.

When the door was opened, at 8 the following morning, the paper all came tumbling down on our friend. He apparently thought that someone had been leaning on the door and had fallen into the room when he opened the door (he needs glasses, and wasn't wearing them at the time). He then spent an hour clearing up all the paper, and made it to uni in time for an exam with about 20 seconds to spare.

OK, so for the people here who know me somewhat (I think there might be two of you by now), you know that I work 3rd shift at a hotel.

A few hours ago, I had a lovely joke played on me. Somebody thought it would be hilarious to plug up the bathtub and both sinks in their room, and then leave all the fixtures running.

Unfortunatley, it wasn't until the room below them called to complain about water leaking into their room that I learned of this fact.

The people who flooded their room took off, obviously. They have to leave an address and phone number though, which we have on file, so I don't know if they were smoking crack or something to think they were going to get away with this. The police should be speaking with them later today.

Anyways...I had to move a family of four out of the room below the flooded one, and the water has leaked down from the 3rd floor all the way to the first, putting three rooms out of order, and easily causing thousands of dollars of water damage.

So...what is the worst prank or practical joke you have ever fallen victim to?
I could use some cheering up here, it has not been a fun night. So make your stories good ones! :p

It'd be sweet if you could hand them the invoice for the damages in person. That'd be perfect practical joke comeback.

People ran away from me.

OK, so for the people here who know me somewhat (I think there might be two of you by now), you know that I work 3rd shift at a hotel.

A few hours ago, I had a lovely joke played on me. Somebody thought it would be hilarious to plug up the bathtub and both sinks in their room, and then leave all the fixtures running.

Unfortunatley, it wasn't until the room below them called to complain about water leaking into their room that I learned of this fact.

The people who flooded their room took off, obviously. They have to leave an address and phone number though, which we have on file, so I don't know if they were smoking crack or something to think they were going to get away with this. The police should be speaking with them later today.

Anyways...I had to move a family of four out of the room below the flooded one, and the water has leaked down from the 3rd floor all the way to the first, putting three rooms out of order, and easily causing thousands of dollars of water damage.

So...what is the worst prank or practical joke you have ever fallen victim to?
I could use some cheering up here, it has not been a fun night. So make your stories good ones! :p

That's just eight shades of stupid. :p

I have jumped(or have been thrown) out of a window at (almost) every hotel I ever stayed in. It's sort of a tradition. The only exception was at the New Orleans Holiday Inn when my room was on the ninth floor. I'm crazy, but not suicidal. ;)

It'd be sweet if you could hand them the invoice for the damages in person. That'd be perfect practical joke comeback.

Nah...I'll leave that job to my manager. She has much more of a temper than I do. :D

OK, so for the people here who know me somewhat (I think there might be two of you by now), you know that I work 3rd shift at a hotel.

A few hours ago, I had a lovely joke played on me. Somebody thought it would be hilarious to plug up the bathtub and both sinks in their room, and then leave all the fixtures running.

Unfortunatley, it wasn't until the room below them called to complain about water leaking into their room that I learned of this fact.

The people who flooded their room took off, obviously. They have to leave an address and phone number though, which we have on file, so I don't know if they were smoking crack or something to think they were going to get away with this. The police should be speaking with them later today.

Anyways...I had to move a family of four out of the room below the flooded one, and the water has leaked down from the 3rd floor all the way to the first, putting three rooms out of order, and easily causing thousands of dollars of water damage.

So...what is the worst prank or practical joke you have ever fallen victim to?
I could use some cheering up here, it has not been a fun night. So make your stories good ones! :p


Thats not a practical Joke.

Thats being a major asshole, and vandalism.

Jokes are funny.

Thats not funny.

I have jumped(or have been thrown) out of a window at (almost) every hotel I ever stayed in. It's sort of a tradition.
Got any how to stay alive tips?

Thats not a practical Joke.

Thats being a major asshole, and vandalism.

Jokes are funny.

Thats not funny.

Well, you have to remember, a prank or practical joke is rarely funny to the victim. I'm sure they thought it was hilarious.

But...it IS vandalism, and the fact that we know where they live assures they will be paying for the damages.

I am no expert, but I have had experience with water damage. I know I'LL be laughing my ass off once they recieve the bill. :)

Well, you have to remember, a prank or practical joke is rarely funny to the victim. I'm sure they thought it was hilarious.

But...it IS vandalism, and the fact that we know where they live assures they will be paying for the damages.

I am no expert, but I have had experience with water damage. I know I'LL be laughing my ass off once they recieve the bill. :)

A prank doesn't necessarily have to be funny to the victim at the time. But afterwards, he should be able to look back on it and laugh.

At least, the good jokes ought to be that way.

Well, you have to remember, a prank or practical joke is rarely funny to the victim. I'm sure they thought it was hilarious.

But...it IS vandalism, and the fact that we know where they live assures they will be paying for the damages.

I am no expert, but I have had experience with water damage. I know I'LL be laughing my ass off once they recieve the bill. :)


No, A good practical joke is one that the reciepient will eventually laugh at, and soon.
Destroying property like that is just an assholish thing to do.

No, A good practical joke is one that the reciepient will eventually laugh at, and soon.
Destroying property like that is just an assholish thing to do.

I completely agree (I'm the one who had to clean it up, or pretend to anyways)

That said, I am sure I'll be laughing plenty later. They certainly expect to get away with their little scheme...

...too bad they won't. :D

Passed out friend, super glue, scrotum, thigh.

I shall say no more.

hmmm...

Adding pure sodium to the sodium chloride before the AS group did their solubility test was fun...

Passed out friend, super glue, scrotum, thigh.

I shall say no more.

Nor should you. :p

My friends specialized in car vandalism in high school. We would take turns defacing each others cars and had a nice cycle of whipped cream, toilet paper, and silly string going. Then, one of us got ambitious and vandaliazed everyone else's cars in one night. It was an impressive feat, five cars in one night. Unfortunately for him, he bragged about it to someone we all knew, so we united our abilities in revenge.

In one night, we covered his car in successive layers of silly string, whipped cream, shaving cream, and toilet paper. This was after, of course, slipping sardines inside his air vents and setting the car on blocks (two of us were training to be auto mechanics). The time it took was about three hours in the dead of a hot summer night. The expression on his face when his mother drove him to school the next day: priceless.

In the corridors of said halls, the doors were set back a few inches from the wall of the corridor. We taped newspapers from wall to wall in front of a friend's door, so that when the door opened (inwards, not into the corridor) there was a wall of paper there. We then screwed up more newspapers and stuffed them down between door and paper.


We did that, except we duct taped the doors up and then poured in sand from the volleyball court or emptied a dozen cans of shaving cream into the space inbetween.

ah let’s see…back in college, two rooms of guys on the floor of my dorm lost their keys, so they never locked their doors. they took a road trip one weekend, so we moved all their stuff between the two rooms, so some of it was in one room and some was in another. like put all of their underwear in one drawer in one of the rooms, put all of their books in another, moved their bedding around, moved posters and stuff. they weren't pleased when they came back, but they did finally fess up that the lost their keys and paid to have the locks changed.

at one job I had, one guy’s wife had their first baby the morning of a big event. we took all the balloons from the event, and went through the ceiling tiles to fill his office floor to ceiling with them, so when he opened the door – avalanche of balloons. that was more fun than mean, though.

for someone else’s birthday, we brought in a ton of wrapping paper and wrapped every thing in her office as a gift. phone, tape, every single book or binder was individually wrapped, every picture frame, every hanging folder in her drawers. took her a while to unwrap it all.

we decorated my bosses lawn one night with every hideous holiday decoration imaginable. easter bunnies, christmas trees, it was all out there. he thought it was funny. another woman was complaining about the deer on her property, so we took bags of deer food and deer scent and spread it all over her front yard. fortunately we had a good department for that kind of thing. we had a lot of fun. good natured but all harmless stuff.

Some friends and I removed all chairs and tables from a class room in the 3rd floor of my school through a window and stacked them on the roof.

don't know if it counts but it's the only joke type thing ever pulled on me. Anyone ever heard of Roy D. Mercer? (http://www.roydmercer.com/main.htm)

yeah?

well, I got a very similar call at work one day while I was being evaluated for a promotion from manager to customer service training manager.

yeah, it was super bad. My boss set me up, apparently she was going to give me the CST job anyway, but just wanted to see how I would deal with a crazy out of left field customer.