Wind Up Merchants

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I was thinking earlier about the above.

What have you ever done to wind up someone?

Big Sis loves to do things properly and once asked me if I knew the Phonetic Alphabet. I dutifully typed it out for her and laminated it so she could keep it safely next to her at her office. There came the fateful day when she had to speak to the police and give them a description of a possible ne'er-do-well including the registration number of his vehicle. It was her bad luck that there was a G on the plate. She read out the number to the police officer, who queried her phonetic choice. Big Sis was not impressed as I had slipped her a mickey finn by substituting Golf with Gammon. I had waited yonks for that one to come to fruition.

[queencharlotte]

I didn`t put "sugar"; suppose with Big Brother watching you will have to work out the real word for yourselves.

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Half day cleansing was it?

[arwyn]

I used to work in a department store and one xmass a customer asked if we had any Men's initialed hankies left, the other assistant popped up from no where and yelled "only f 'n' c's" (in a geordie accent)

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Whoops!

[emmie]

i know its an old one, but someone gave one of the staff a phone number and said you have to ring them, its urgent, name on postit, Mr C Lion, he duly rang, yes you guessed it London Zoo

[ClareA]

Worse than that em10, it was routine for people to ring a pub I once frequented and ask the staff to call over the bar for 'Mike Hunt'.

The wind-up I'm proudest of, though, is one that lasted five months.
One very merry Christmas Day, our hostess and I steered their lodger up the stairs and to his own room, opened the door and left him to it.
Her husband then convinced the lodger that we two women had undressed him and put him to bed. He was convinced we'd seen all he had.
Five months later we were all at a trade union do, the poor man was mortified to catch my eye and I had to put him out of his misery and tell the truth. He sat with us all evening and wouldn't speak to his landlord friends!

A bunch of us also once made someone a present of an 'air guitar'. Empty box, blank instruction sheet, and video tutorial with no tape in it.

[CAJ1]

I've given someone a message to phone Elizabeth before and given them the number for buckingham palace :)

You can pop the keys off a keyboard and if you take off the letters t h and e and swap them with the letters s, e and x then everytime the person types the it comes up with sex lol. They never work it out either as it doesn't occur to them that the keys have been swapped lol!

[ClareA]

I've been 'had', too. I asked for a taxi number in a pub, someone rattled one off and I found myself live on-air on the local radio phone-in.

[wolf63]

arwyn - strangely I was thinking about the webcam in my Macbook earlier as I was poking around in my bra for a bit of food that I had dropped. I might put a cover over the lens just in case!

;-)

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Not cup-a-soup, Wolf? ;o)

[knowabit]

yeh, of course you are! get over yourself.

[emmie]

its sort of connected, if anyone has seen the French film Amelie, she plays some wicked pranks on a neighbour, he's a nasty bully, she buys some slippers, same pair as the ones he always wears, only one size too small, removes his old ones, and replaces with new, and of course they won't fit, there are others pranks, but see the film, its lovely, and makes me laugh every time.