confetti water colour

Not so much a prank i have seen, more the best prank i have ever pulled. This prank was extremely well planned, developed and built, then poorly executed, then recovered.. by the prankee.

There was a coworker that all of us hated. He was a NYC ahole who thought he was better than the rest of us... so someone had to put him in his place. I decided that person was me. Then i started to put in place the most epic prank the office has ever seen.

I set to work devising a hole punch monitor mine. i cut a dixie cup apart leaving only the bottom disk, i then fastened said disk to another dixie cup using a rubberband across the top of the second cup. I forced the disk to the bottom of the second cup and secured it by poking a paperclip thru the second cup, the paperclip went completely thru the cup and was flush with the hole on the face of the cup. I then filled the cup with hole punches.

with the mine created and stashed in a desk drawer, i waited. Once the coworker left for the day (notoriously early might i add) i started prepping the mine. i placed it on top of his monitor and taped the paperclip that was coming out of the back of the cup to his monitor. Any motion at this point would dislodge the paperclip and send the disk ripping thru the paper punches to the top of the cup.. in this process it would throw and fling and toss the contents of the cup into the air.

or at least that was the plan.

The final step was placing a peice of paper over the cup so he didnt see the punches. this was the downfall of my plan.

when i came in the next morning the coworker was supprisingly early.. and he was holding my mine!

He spun his chair around, showed me the mine and asked me "did you really think that id tug the paper and let all this fall on me?"

Now that wasnt the plan at all... he wasnt just supposed to dump the punches on him.. it was supposed to be a confetti conundrum.

"No" I replied.. "That wasnt what was supposed to happen"

At this point he started inspecting the mine, and found the paperclip. "What was supposed to happen? And whats this clip?" He wrapped his grimy new yorker hand around the paperclip and I set to running.

A quick look over the shoulder showed that the coworker had finished my dastardly deed.

I came back to the cube in hysterics, crying the entire time. He was holding an empty cup and a paperclip. The cubicle, his desk, his high society fashionable male self, and his smug face were completely covered in multicolor neon hole punches *all i could find the day before was a stack of neon post-it notes*.

It may not have gone EXACTLY as i had planned, instead it had gone 10 times better because i was able to witness first hand the explosive power of my prank.

My lesson learned -
Murphys Law may come around more than once in one turn of events, and if it does it may cancel out the wrong it first created, instead making it a right of fantastic proportions.