Erin The Great

I’m beginning to feel the back lash of April Fools. I went crazy yesterday as far as pranks go, and it was absolutely worth it! Except that now my friends want to see my demise…

I started out small with tiny pranks like updating my facebook status to say something like ‘I was long boarding and took a nasty spill and I’m now on crutches’. I then found my old knee brace and crutches and acted the part.

After that I went to work where I went to ksl.com and advertised two of my friend’s cars in the classifieds. This was great because I put very low asking prices, just so people would bite. I entered captions like ‘inherited from grandfather, need money for tuition’ and ‘going through bitter divorce settlement, I don’t want that lying harpy to get a cent from me… buy now’. Unfortunately, the postings took a while to post on the internet so I had various co-workers calling them asking about their ksl adds.

It was working pretty well until they started combining phone numbers and realized what was going on. Apparently I was the first option or ‘usual suspect’ among maybe one other person… This saddens me a little. Does everyone around me just think I’m a trouble maker? Or was it just brilliant enough to where there would be only one option i.e. me? While my friend Todd was busy plotting my death, my other friend Clark was a little more pro-active about it. This particular friend had his sister pretend to be his secretary and had her re-routing all the calls back to me. Katie, I salute you! I received about 10 calls before I figured out how to forward my phone number back to Clark, letting him take the heat for a while.

I feel slightly bad about the call volume for these two individuals. After finding out that Todd had turned off his phone for a couple hours and after turning it back on, he had 21 voice messages…. On a brighter note, it’s always good to know ones phone capacity.

To my other two victims I apologize at the lack of creativity. One prank I didn’t even get to do because at that point the finger of blame was pointing to me. I had my friend Brandon call my other friend… we’ll call him Osmond, pretending to be responding to a personal add. The phone call went something like this:

B: Hello is this Osmond?
O: Yeah
B: Hi, I’m just responding to your profile on lovecity.com. I don’t normally do this but I noticed that you live in Provo and I live in Provo. I also see that you’re from Plano too and you have blue eyes and dark hair… wait why did he hang up on me? Erin, you’re friend hung up on me!

By this point I was literally rolling on the floor laughing. After I had collected myself, MY phone started ringing off the hook with the re-routed ad phone calls. After receiving about 3 of them I called Clark to inquire about the calls. This was my mistake! Apparently I sound guilty when I’m lying because my friend Todd picked up on it. Crap! I was busted for sure but at least managed to put doubt in the rest of their minds before hanging up the phone.

As for my friend Don… lets just say had I not been targeted, you would have received a prank phone call from an executive of ‘Play Girl’, denying your application to be a model. They’re going with the ‘exotic look’ this month but please re-submit for the ‘albino’ addition in September.

To these individuals I would like to say thank you! I haven’t been able to pull a decent prank in years and it felt REALLY good to stretch my pranking muscles, and let loose. Thank you for being the first worthy opponents I’ve see in a very long time! Vindication is certainly yours!