The Master Prankster got Pranked

I wish you all knew my dad.  He’s GREAT!  He is the master pranker.  He pulls pranks on people all the time.

So I’ve been sitting on a secret for a little over a month now… because my dad reads my blog sometimes and I wasn’t about to incriminate myself or anyone else, just yet ;).

It all started one Sunday when we went to the farm store to I guess kill time.  I’m not really sure why we went in there.  Anyway my friend Kendra works there on Sunday’s.  We were up at the register talking to her for a minute when I saw all these cute wind up animal toys and started playing with them.

So between hubby, Kendra and myself we decided to buy this dancing cow and send it anonymously to my dad at work.  Our normal day jobs, we all work at the same place and there’s inter-co mail so it made it fairly easy to get it to him without him knowing.

So he received the cow in the mail and I happened to walk up to his office just after mail was delivered and he’s like, what’s this.  I was like um… looks like a dancing cow.  Where’d you get it?  He said he didn’t know.  I was struggling to keep my poker face on.

So jump forward a week and Kendra calls me at work and asks me what department my dad works in.  I told her and she’s like, I got him a flipping frog.  I just so happened to wind up in his office after mail again that day and he was on the phone blaming another co-worker who he played a prank on a few months earlier.  I just played it off, because technically I didn’t have anything to do with that one.  Made it so much easier to deny!

Well then, it was on.

1.  The Dancing Cow does a side to side move with his arms and then drops down into the splits.
2.  The flog actually flips over and does a complete somersault.

Then hubby and I had to keep it going.  The next purchase/send was a galloping Horse.  The horse gallops across the table/desk/floor/whatever.

The ladybug was cute, she walks across the desk.

I actually found the monkey at Walmart of all places and it scoots across the desk on its arms.

The caterpillar inches across the desk.

Then since Theresa was getting blamed for all of this, she joined in and sent him a race car.  I had no idea about this one at all.  And she was fairly certain it was me sending them, however she couldn’t prove it and I never squealed on myself.

Now when we went to Kansas to pick up Josie, my dad was going on in the truck about all these toys he kept receiving, mom, hubby and I were doing everything we could to fight back laughing because we all knew the truth.

Mom even joined in and picked him up the robot man at a trade show the week before his birthday.

Now, at first we wanted to keep this going until Christmas, but decided later that we’d fess up on his birthday, which was last Tuesday.  So for his Birthday he received the Running Chicken that flaps its wings as well as a peace offering of Starbucks Coffee :).

Kendra was afraid because she said she’s never played a trick on my dad.  I’m like, oh his bark is worse than his bite, but trust me, he’ll get you back.

Now to really throw him off in all of this, I had different people at work writing his name for me.  I was putting them around the building in different outboxes so if he asked the mail gals where they were coming from, none of the places were the same.  I schemed, what can I say :).

And so here’s the Critter Family

I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little worried how I’ll be gotten back… but that’s just par for the course.