Me and my buddy David were in the Haight Ashbury District of San Francisco one day back in the mid 1980s. As we were leaving, Dave hollers "STOP!!!" I pulled over and he jumps out, then hotfoots it into a gay bookstore, which I found somewhat disconcerting seeing as he was also my housemate.
He's in there for a couple minutess, then comes back out with a big grin on his face which I also found a bit strange seeing as he just came out of a gay bookstore.
"Check this shit out," he says s he pulls a couple Gay Pride bumper stickers out of his jacket.
"Whatcha gonna do with those?"
"I'm going to put one on the back of Fernando's truck," he says. Fernando was our boss, one we both hated as much as he hated us.
"Good idea," I say.
Now Fernando lived in Oakdale which bills itself as The Cowboy Capital of the World, so you can imagine the reaction he was getting for the next couple weeks as he drove around town before he finally got around to walking to the back of his truck.
He was pissed off as hell, knowing we were behind it, but he couldn't prove a damned thing and we never copped to it.
When I left my previous employment I was a supervisor. The guy who was hired as my replacement was not well received by my old crew. Is pickup truck drove around for several days sporting rainbow bumper stickers and one that said "Honk if you love tube steak".
ReplyDeleteHeh!
ReplyDeleteI worked in a machine shop back in the early 80s. One of the guys did that to another guy's car in the parking lot, I think the sticker he snuck on was something like "I'm glad I'm gay"
When the other guy eventually noticed it, he was mad enough he wanted to fight the prankster. Different times.
Contractor where I used to work put a gay pride bumper sticker on one of my coworkers vehicles. He discovered it a month later. I got blamed.
ReplyDeleteIn retaliation I put a club on the contractor's steering wheel. Found it in the trash . No key.
The zip tie on the driveshaft was always a good one.
ReplyDeleteA coworker did that to my truck. I told him you can mess with me but if you mess with my equipment again you'll regret it.
DeleteI like practical jokes but messing with a guys truck and such is passive BS.
I like "Dave" stories. Hilarious!
ReplyDeleteThese two guys at work used to take 1/2 day off every year for trout opener. One year we printed a big "just married" sign and taped it to the transom of the boat. Because they had backed in they didn't see it. They said they were getting honks and waves and strange looks all the way to the lake.
ReplyDeleteWe once put a rainbow sticker on the service manager's pickup. He didn't notice it until one of his buddies pointed it out. His buddy had to explain what it meant. It made for a memorable hunting trip.
ReplyDeleteMy wife's stepmother was a university psychology professor. When we were dating, my future wife put a bumper sticker on stepmom's car that said "Ass, gas, or grass. Nobody rides for free".
ReplyDeleteIt took her a couple of weeks to find it. For some reason she didn't think it was funny.
You got lucky with a wife that does stuff like that! So did I. :-)
DeleteSounds like I'm not the only habitual prankster. I put a Rainbow pride sticker on the right hand rear bumper of a friend's truck. It took several days before it was brought to his attention by another friend. He knew immediately where it came from. I got him another time with one of those stickers that signifies an idiot, you know, "COEXIST".
DeleteOne of the new guys at work got pranked years ago. Two of his fellow employees removed the spare tire in the trunk of his car and put a frozen bag of shrimp with a corner clipped off under it. Took him days to find the source of the smell.
ReplyDeleteTwo of our maintence guys used to ride together to work every day. Someone put a "Gay and Proud" tag on the front ofhis truck. They did not ever see it, but his Momma did. Stood there in the driveway, hands on hips, and said, "Boy, you got something to tell me?"
ReplyDeleteRetaliation was to line the perp's truck bed with plastic and fill it with water. He did not catch it until he drove off at quitting time.
I loved those guys.