I used to love to play that prank on other kids when I was a kid, and I admit to having actually done this to co-workers, and had it done to me. It's a way of relieving stress I suppose. I scared the living daylights out of the PE teacher at the first school I worked at by hiding in this little storage building across the staff parking lot, that was used as a "recycling bin" for plastic bottles. She'd bragged about how nothing could scare her, and I knew that she was going out to put some bottles in the bin, so I hid there under a black tarp. I knew that she was the sort who'd laugh it off, though-not everyone is, and you kinda have to know the people you play pranks on and know how they'll likely react. She did get me back, though, by hiding in a big oak tree next to the exit following a night-time PTO meeting and jumping out of the tree screaming like a Banshee as I walked out alone to the parking lot. Again, stress and a generally not-fun work environment tends to do that to normally mature grownups; it's either that, or REALLY go insane.
pitbulllady
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