So my most recent and maybe one of my best thus far was the April Fools prank that me any my friend Bergie (her real name is Rachel Burger but I like to call her Bergie) and Nichole played on our dear friend and co-worker Adam Hiatt.
This is how it all started. Bergie and I were doing the SAC set at work one tuesday afternoon and she was telling me all about the shady house she lives in. Technically, she is not currently living in it because there are "a few minor repairs" that need to be taken care of but thats another story. So, I'm listening and asking about the house and she asked me if I wanted to go check it out and I said of course. I wanted to go see the shadiest house in Provo. We decided to take Nichole along and go that thursday night, March 27th.
So thursday night rolls around and Nichole and I walk to Bergie's and we got there before she did and we discovered that her kitchen door was wide open. Which is shady cuz no one lives there but good at the same time Berige did not have a key to her own house. Needless to say we went inside and looked around. Bergie shows me the attic and tells me how she wants to go up there and find some ancient document like the original Declaration of Independence or some love letter. I said ok, lets do it because I was curious myself.
We found a suitcase to stand on and realized that we have no flashlight but we did have a camera. Bergie took a picture and started freaking out. She yells no ways, there are scrolls up here. I said what, grab them. She grabed them and after an examination we discovered that it was 50 year old wallpaper and not ancient scrolls. It has probably been there from when the house was built. There is a plethora of it up there. So we pull down lots and lots of it. We were kinda disappointed that there were no stocks, bonds, deeds, or Declaration of Independence. Then we had the brilliant idea that we should plant something up there, bring someone back and trick them into believing that they found something great.
We decided that night that our co-worker Adam was the perfect candidate. To get him over there we would tell him that we needed his height to get stuff out of the attic. We planned on going that next thursday. So tuesday, april fools day, rolls around and I thought why are we not doing it today. It would be perfect. When Bergie came into work I proposed that we do that night. Both her and Nichole were available so I text Adam and asked him if he would help us get stuff out of Bergie's attic and he agreed to meet us there at 8 and warned us that he had to leave by 9:30.
Adam was coming at 8 so we met at Bergie's at 7 to plan it. Since we didn't know what we were doing we sat around for a while talking. We finally decided to write a letter. We wanted it to be old so we dated it in early 1900's because Bergie has really old books from the early 1900's that we could stick a letter in. There was some white tissue like paper in Bergie's room that we found and we found her roomies calligraphy pen. So Nichole was in charge of writing the letter while Bergie and I searched through the old book finding passages that we could use in the letter. The letter was about a guy writing to his wife telling her that her brother was in jail. How sad.
The letter was amazing but we had to make it authentic so we crumpled it and put suit on it and burned the edges on the stove. Its only flaw was that the calligraphy ink we used was shiny in some areas. We hoped that he didn't notice. So we folded up the letter and put it in a book and wrapped up three of the book in twine and put it in the attic. We also put a newspaper Bergie got from DC that was from the 1920's. By this point it was 8:05 so I text Adam and told him that we had just gotten there. So a few minutes later there was a knock at the door and I open it and there was Adam standing there in a white shirt, tie and slacks. Apparently he didn't get the memo that he would be climbing in an attic.
So we take him upstairs to the attic and he climbs up there and immediately finds the newspaper which he was excited about. I stood by him so he could hand me the stuff he took out. He then found the books so he gave them to me and I kept the book with the letter in it and I gave the other two to the girls. He then proceeded to take down the wallpaper. After he was done looking he got down and I gave him the book and guess what he found, the letter!!!
He started to read the letter and tell us what it is about. It was funny because we knew what it said and he was interpreting it wrong. At one point he thought someone had died because it said my condolences. Bergie kept saying, Adam how do you know that? So he'd go back and re-read and realize that he was wrong. It took him about 15 minutes to read the entire letter. After that we looked through the old books and the newspaper. We had to be cautious about the newspaper because the last two pages were advertisements for the reprinting of old newspapers. Luckily he did not see that. He just looked through and front pages.
After this we were pretty much done in the attic so we went out to the garage because Bergie wanted to see what was in there. There wasn't anything in the garage so Adam and Nichole played ring-around-the-mindy. 9:30 was approaching so Adam started walking away but we hadn't told him that it was an april fools prank so I called him back over and Bergie said by the way, april fools and he said i know and walked away briskly.
I know, he said I know? He knows what? Was he saying that he knew it was april fools or he knew it was a prank the whole time or what? So we pondered this for a while. Finally I was able to talk to him about it at work. He never did tell me when he figured out that it was a prank but he gave us a 7.9 and said that it was artsy and original. So I guess I'll have to take what I get.
I have to say we did good for only a half hour of planning.
We found a suitcase to stand on and realized that we have no flashlight but we did have a camera. Bergie took a picture and started freaking out. She yells no ways, there are scrolls up here. I said what, grab them. She grabed them and after an examination we discovered that it was 50 year old wallpaper and not ancient scrolls. It has probably been there from when the house was built. There is a plethora of it up there. So we pull down lots and lots of it. We were kinda disappointed that there were no stocks, bonds, deeds, or Declaration of Independence. Then we had the brilliant idea that we should plant something up there, bring someone back and trick them into believing that they found something great.
We decided that night that our co-worker Adam was the perfect candidate. To get him over there we would tell him that we needed his height to get stuff out of the attic. We planned on going that next thursday. So tuesday, april fools day, rolls around and I thought why are we not doing it today. It would be perfect. When Bergie came into work I proposed that we do that night. Both her and Nichole were available so I text Adam and asked him if he would help us get stuff out of Bergie's attic and he agreed to meet us there at 8 and warned us that he had to leave by 9:30.
Adam was coming at 8 so we met at Bergie's at 7 to plan it. Since we didn't know what we were doing we sat around for a while talking. We finally decided to write a letter. We wanted it to be old so we dated it in early 1900's because Bergie has really old books from the early 1900's that we could stick a letter in. There was some white tissue like paper in Bergie's room that we found and we found her roomies calligraphy pen. So Nichole was in charge of writing the letter while Bergie and I searched through the old book finding passages that we could use in the letter. The letter was about a guy writing to his wife telling her that her brother was in jail. How sad.
The letter was amazing but we had to make it authentic so we crumpled it and put suit on it and burned the edges on the stove. Its only flaw was that the calligraphy ink we used was shiny in some areas. We hoped that he didn't notice. So we folded up the letter and put it in a book and wrapped up three of the book in twine and put it in the attic. We also put a newspaper Bergie got from DC that was from the 1920's. By this point it was 8:05 so I text Adam and told him that we had just gotten there. So a few minutes later there was a knock at the door and I open it and there was Adam standing there in a white shirt, tie and slacks. Apparently he didn't get the memo that he would be climbing in an attic.
So we take him upstairs to the attic and he climbs up there and immediately finds the newspaper which he was excited about. I stood by him so he could hand me the stuff he took out. He then found the books so he gave them to me and I kept the book with the letter in it and I gave the other two to the girls. He then proceeded to take down the wallpaper. After he was done looking he got down and I gave him the book and guess what he found, the letter!!!
He started to read the letter and tell us what it is about. It was funny because we knew what it said and he was interpreting it wrong. At one point he thought someone had died because it said my condolences. Bergie kept saying, Adam how do you know that? So he'd go back and re-read and realize that he was wrong. It took him about 15 minutes to read the entire letter. After that we looked through the old books and the newspaper. We had to be cautious about the newspaper because the last two pages were advertisements for the reprinting of old newspapers. Luckily he did not see that. He just looked through and front pages.
After this we were pretty much done in the attic so we went out to the garage because Bergie wanted to see what was in there. There wasn't anything in the garage so Adam and Nichole played ring-around-the-mindy. 9:30 was approaching so Adam started walking away but we hadn't told him that it was an april fools prank so I called him back over and Bergie said by the way, april fools and he said i know and walked away briskly.
I know, he said I know? He knows what? Was he saying that he knew it was april fools or he knew it was a prank the whole time or what? So we pondered this for a while. Finally I was able to talk to him about it at work. He never did tell me when he figured out that it was a prank but he gave us a 7.9 and said that it was artsy and original. So I guess I'll have to take what I get.
I have to say we did good for only a half hour of planning.
