Practical Jokes

Yesterday I learned something about myself. I'm not good at pulling off pranks. It started when I went to the cafeteria to get dinner. I met up with some of my teammates. Now, there are 3 Sarahs on our team, so we gave them nicknames. SarBear, Sarah B (I know, not very original), and Black Belt. The last Sarah has a black belt in karate. She's not in this story, however. I just wanted to put that awesome fact in.

I was sitting with SarBear and Sarah B. We were getting ready to leave when SarBear went to talk to someone at another table. She left her phone, which I proceeded to take and put in my pocket. My original plan was to just keep it until she figured out who took it. Then I got an idea. I remembered a story that my R.D. from last year told me. When she worked at another school, she snuck into one of her resident's rooms and hid under her bed. She waited until she came in and got settled and then scared her. Seeing that one of SarBear's apartment mates was in their living room, I knocked on the door. After explaining what I was doing and asking her to not give anything away, I went up to SarBear's room and got under the bed. I was giddy with excitement.

After figuring out I was the one who took her phone, SarBear and Sarah B had gone over to my apartment to ask for it back. Little did they know that I wasn't there. I was curled up next to a plastic bin, waiting with anticipation for them to come back.

Then, somehow, my plan failed. I don't know how, but SarBear and Sarah B figured out that I was hiding somewhere in the apartment before they even got there. Their apartment mate had left before they came, so she couldn't have told them. I heard the door open and Sarah B's voice.

"We know you're in here! You're going to die!"

Coming up the stairs, she opened the door to SarBear's room. She found me almost immediately. Grabbing my feet, she dragged me out from under the bed, SarBear's phone falling out of my pocket in the process. Sarah B snatched it up. As a last ditch effort, I tried to hold on to her legs to keep her from going downstairs, but she just kicked her shoes off and ran out the door.

In the end, SarBear got her phone back and we had a good laugh.I'm a little bummed it didn't work out, but it still makes for a good story.