My Little Pranksters A comedy conversation
by Shelle 77,143 25 03/31/2010 03:33 AM 234 views
My kids and I enjoy pulling pranks on one another. No, we don't cover each other's cubicles with foil or turn each other's room into the North Pole, but we do silly little things that make us laugh. It's a way to have fun.
Last week I got a new cell phone. Now I'm not the kind of person who has to have the latest and greatest and does everything on there. It rings. I answer it. That's about it. Yesterday, my son asked me if he could look at my new phone. I wasn't too worried that he would mess up the settings, since I hadn't changed any of them yet myself, so I gave it to him.
He and my daughter sat down and goofed around with it for a bit, playing some of the ringtones that came with the phone. At one point I left the room for a few minutes. I came back and my phone was sitting on the chair. I put it back in my purse and thought nothing else of it.
That is, until this morning when I was out taking the kids to school and my phone rang. This is what I heard:
When I first heard it, I started to tell my son to quiet down when I realized that it was coming from my purse. They had set it on the highest volume and it was pretty loud. After that, I just sat there and laughed my ass off for about five minutes.
Back when we didn't use our cell phones to do everything and it was not unusual to go a day without looking at it unless it rang, I played a prank on a coworker. It was actually unintentional, but the result was rewarding.
He and my friend shared an office, so when I'd go in there to chat with her I'd sometimes idly play with things on his desk, including his cell. The first time I played with it that day, I set the alarm to go off at 3:45 a.m.
Later that day, having forgotten the first change I made, I changed the display language to Portuguese.
I was not there in his bedroom that night to watch the hilarity ensue when the alarm started to ring and he couldn't turn it off, but in my head it was quite comical.
Could you describe it in words for those of us behind stupid web filters and even stupider "smart"phones that don't have a proper Adobe Flash implementation?*cough* iPhone *cough* *cough*
When I worked at a retail electronics store, one of my fellow employees sent me a multimedia message. I opened it while behind the counter only to be greeted with a picture of a guy's balls hanging out of his shorts and being planted on another person's forehead. At the same time a LOUD audio message played repeatedly, "You've just been teabagged. You've just been teabagged..." The customers in the store gave me funny looks. My manager was not happy.
I later forwarded it to a guy while we were in church.
No, she's putting them in the empty space where her kids (and uterus) used to be.
Yes, the clickies fill a void in my life that used to be occupied by my uterus and my ability to procreate, the very things that made me more of a woman.
They also fill a void in my medicine cabinet where I used to store my Always with wings and Tampax.
I was thinking about changing the ringtone to something like a car horn (when I figure out how the hell to change the damn thing), putting the phone under the coffee table and calling it while they're sitting there watching tv. I would get a lot of enjoyment out of scaring the poo out of them.
Anyone have any ideas for a good loud sound? It goes without saying that it can't contain foul language.
Would anyone be interested in seeing it if I videotape it? Or am I in danger of falling into the unfunny prank trap and should just STFU?
I've decided that I'm going to keep my son's voice as my ringtone. It's obnoxious as hell, but it makes me laugh.
I'd say do it. Scaring kids is funny. Sometimes I think that's the only reason I had any.
I've pimped the site before but Phonezoo.com has a variety of annoying and/or loud tones and it does a reasonable job of explaining how to get them from the site to your phone.
I wouldn't put it under the couch though as even the best cellphones don't have the greatest speaker. I would maybe try stuffing it between two of the back cushions on the couch.
I should write an unfunny How To article on this but I'm not a professional prankster, so I'd be out of my league.
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