Meb452m's Blog

Friends and practical jokes ? Always remember the goal is to still have some friends when all the laughter is over.  The guy that works on the bench next to mine I've known for over twenty years. He's 58 and I'm 49 so we have seen a good joke or two. One of the younger guys in the shop tried to pull one on us a time or two, he's still young so a little slow at the learning part.  We work in  a cabinet shop and use Crisco on laminate edges so a solid carbide trimmer will not burn the laminate. The younger guy thought bit funny to grease the handles of some of my buddies and my tools. It was good for a laugh. But I tried to explain to him that having fired the opening shot of a war without prior knowledge of an opponent or opponents can be quite costly.  He still laughed.

I could hear him bitching the next day when he discovered his lunch box handle had been slimed. Not to be out done he Criscoed the drinking stray in my soda.  I laughed, I also said : " You play, you pay ! "

The next day I made a point of letting him catch me around his workbench. He rushed over an inquired into any of my recent activity. I told him you might want something more substancial to wrap your sandwiches up in. Why he asked ? I said when you weren't looking I lifted the lid on your cooler, farted in your cooler and then closed the lid !  He exploded and said : " I can't believe you did that ! "  I said : " Actually I didn't, but it was worth watching the look on your face ! "  It was even funnier at lunch time watching him look at his meal with some skeptisism. I figured I was going eat for free that day.

This guy's not a quiter, ya hafta admire that. His next little trick was to lift a snap on my truck bed cover and leave his Wendy's sack hanging out from under the corner of the cover.  Confrointing him in the office with his trash, he loudly denied and protested. I mearly pointed out, if you're going to lie at least have the intellegence to turn the label on your soda cup away ! Not that I would have believed you anyways.

His memorie seems quite short for a young guy as well. He bicycled in to work one day, so in his absence I took a couple of liberties. The brake pulls got a nice coating of Crisco as well as his center pull handle bar and water bottle. I forwarned another co-worker, who later laughingly gave me the details. Seems the youngin didn't even leave the lot before he stopped and wiped his hands off on some nicely pressed slacks. Oh - Well !

I told him later I'd found a dead rat in the shop and rigamortise  had not fully set in. I offered to hang the rat offf of his Toyota's rear view mirror, by the tail, like a pine tree freshner.  He said : " You wouldn't and why would you do that to me ? "  I mearly asked : " Is it possible that you may have committed some form of sin or transgrettion against me ? "  He laoghed as well as everone else in the office. His immediate boss asked me and my buddy to quit tormenting him, to take it easy on him as he still needed to get some work out of him. That's no problem, me I'm just a lover ! LOL !!!!

We're still good buddies, but these days he gives the older guy's a bit more respect !

Any good stories ?