Pranks you fell for when you were young!

Angeles · 13-04-2012 09:53AM #1

Right so I'm sure many of you out their fell for a few pranks in your time, what were the best/worst.

-I worked in the bar for a few years when i was younger and remember getting caught by the Heineken Shandy prank on my first week as a lounge boy.
Pretty much the staff sent me to the pub across the street cause they had run out of Heineken shandy and needed a fresh keg.

So all oblivious and wanting to impress! YES SIR! i jog my way over to the pub and ask the barman there for a keg of Heineken shandy for the pub i was working for. He was quick on the ball and instantly replied "No problem kiddo do you need the red or white one" to which ofc i didn't know, so jogged back to my bar and asked which one they need.. "THE RED ONE OFC, JASUS I'VE PEOPLE WAITING"... **** **** ok ok... run back across, "we need the red one", no problem, hang on there a moment.

So the barman goes down to the basement and returns with an empty keg.."here ya go, tell them to mark it down for back order next delivery"
Sweat running off me from traveling back and forth to then carry a keg.. i picked it up and said "This keg is a lot lighter then the others", to which the barman snaps back on the ball an says - "Ahh sure the shandy's have alot more gas in em so there lighter" - Grand stuff!

Needless to say on arrival with the keg i was surrounded by about 10 peeps in fits, to which a customer shouts to the barman for a Heineken shandy with red lemonade, went quite a bit of that florescent pink color after seeing and realizing the trap i had fallen into.

- Few years later up at Barman status i knew all of the tricks, so managed to pull a few myself of some innocent new staff for the giggles, but there was one new lounge boy in particular who thought he was smarter then the rest, even tho we caught him on 1 he convinced himself that he would STAND UP to the nasty barmen if they tried to trick him again and it ofc gained him a reputation of being a cheeky little ****e.
One night it was actually particularly busy and i'd run out of johnny walker and needed to secure a bottle from one of the other bars, this was for a high priority customer back then, there was usually about a handful of these that gave the publicans some "Special privs or something", either way making them wait was considered an insult.

So i call this lounge boy over and tell him, "Run in next story and get me a bottle of johnny walker black" as quickly as you can.
His response was - "Heh nice try but i'm not falling for that one"......wait..what!!?!?!??? and no matter what i said he wouldn't do his job...little smart arse.
In the end the manager had to run in and get me the bottle in his stead.

I remember the look on the boys face after the manager presenting the bottle i was asking for.. I didn't see the boy show up for work after that.

So Ah'ers got any decent ones?

Jacksquat · 13-04-2012 10:01AM

I got sent looking for a short stand for some piece of equipment in one of my first jobs. Feckers:P The worst is when you ask someone for it and they just send you somewhere else. I'm glad it wasn't a long stand!

deman · 13-04-2012 10:13AM

Jacksquat wrote: »

I got sent looking for a short stand for some piece of equipment in one of my first jobs. Feckers:P The worst is when you ask someone for it and they just send you somewhere else. I'm glad it wasn't a long stand!

I was sent for the long stand, and it was a long stand.

CardBordWindow · 13-04-2012 10:17AM

'What's that on your shirt?'

POW! Finger to the nose.

Sky King · 13-04-2012 10:19AM

"Look into this hosepipe while I stand over here by the tap!"

Gets me every time.

threestripes · 13-04-2012 10:21AM

My ole fellow still hasn't give me back my nose:(

alwaysadub · 13-04-2012 10:22AM

Training as a chef with another lad, we got asked to go get a bucket of steam. He ran off to get it, I copped on just in time!

MungBean · 13-04-2012 10:22AM

"Pull my finger"

Was funny till I realised it wasnt his finger

Fcukin priests.

Will I Amnt · 13-04-2012 10:23AM

Stripey paint,flux capacitor,bucket of steam....just some of the many things you might be sent for on a building site.

I once witnessed a lad being sent to shut the door on the van to keep the noise out

Squ · 13-04-2012 10:23AM

Sent down to superquinn while working in dunnes for a trolley jack.

kylith · 13-04-2012 10:26AM

I used to get sent for tins of elbow grease.

Mint Sauce · 13-04-2012 10:30AM

Part time job, working in a swimming pool. I was looking after one of the walkie-talkies, and was asked to radio the reception for them to make an announcment over the tannoy, 'If there is an Emma Rodes in the building could she please make her self known to a member of staff' I was a bit suspect, however the other lad was a bit more niave, he asked them to put out an announcement for an 'Ivor Biggin'.

One of the more pool related ones was to count the waves, as it gave an indication to the number of people in the pool.

:pac:

Mr.Crinklewood · 13-04-2012 10:30AM

Was told that you had to be over 7 to drink 7UP.

marty1985 · 13-04-2012 10:34AM

Assholesaywhat.

What??

davet82 · 13-04-2012 10:35AM

was sent looking for a glass hammer, also was told to get the keys to the carpark which had no gates or fences or anything enclosing the carpark, i'm sort of a dumb azz really

Mint Sauce · 13-04-2012 10:35AM

Mr.Crinklewood wrote: »

Was told that you had to be over 7 to drink 7UP.

We were told we couldn't draw glasses on the faces in the sunday papers as they had to be returned the next day.

davet82 · 13-04-2012 10:35AM

Mr.Crinklewood wrote: »

Was told that you had to be over 7 to drink 7UP.

no buddy, thats actually the law

TheChevron · 13-04-2012 10:38AM

One summer I worked in a factory that made work-wear clothing, overalls, jackets and the likes.

One day I was sent looking for camouflage thread. There was a big box of mixed threads and I rummaged right to the bottom and couldn't find it.

I had to go back and explain that I couldnt find it.

"It must be well camouflaged so"

Cue uprorious laughter from the group of lads standing a there.

They laughed at my thread, I threaded them with bullets.

Run_to_da_hills · 13-04-2012 10:43AM

Was anyone ever asked to go to the stores to fetch the hammerfor?

MetalDog · 13-04-2012 10:52AM

Heard of a fella in the Navy who was doing his basic training. On his first time at sea, a guy tells him to ring the ships' laundry and ask for "Seaman Staines" . . . .

recyclops · 13-04-2012 10:55AM

often we would send staff in a supermarket to run up to the deli for the pudding bender

omahaid · 13-04-2012 11:00AM

I was away from home and I sent my daughter a text to find the K9P fluid in the shed (April fools day joke).

SEPT 23 1989 · 13-04-2012 11:00AM

Tartan Paint:rolleyes:

Local_Chap · 13-04-2012 11:01AM

A ladder to paint the skirting boards or a new bubble for the level! I never got caught by them tho

dilallio · 13-04-2012 11:03AM

My flatmate was working as a porter in the hospital in Galway.

One night he was wheeling a patient down to the maternity ward when a midwife who was dealing with a woman in labour, screamed at him to quickly run down to the store room for a clitoris-clamp and 4 foot of fallopian tube. :eek::eek::eek:

Shybookwormy · 13-04-2012 11:03AM

My best friend had been missing for days in school, so I eventually decided to call her on the phone- just to see that she hadn't died or anything.

She picks up the phone and tells me that she's currently under house arrest hence her long absence. She told me she had attempted to poison her French teacher in school and had gotten caught...

I was literally freaking out- I don't know why but I totally believed her! I talked to her mum and she was like "wtf?" and I felt like the biggest ejit on the planet.

clappyhappy · 13-04-2012 11:10AM

Training as a chef I was on work placement in a very busy restaurant that also made fresh pizza's. On a sunday night we were running low on pizza bases and the head & sous chef said we needed a new batch made for next day (it closed on mondays!!!!!). Hadn't made them before so the sous chef wrote out recipe and said they had to be perfect and get it done quickly. All that was on recipe was 1kg flour, pinch of salt, tspoon of sugar and 1 egg. I must have spent 15 minutes trying to bind it together as the chefs were roaring laughing, then I realised!!!!

revz · 13-04-2012 11:17AM

I've mentioned it here before, but will post it again as it still haunts me, have no idea how I fell for it.
When I was 11-12, I was leaving my old school to move here. My class were signing a card for me, so my teacher wanted me to leave the classroom so they could surprise me. Instead of asking me to go ask someone for a long stand, she asked me to go ask my German teacher for a "fallopian tube"...and I did it.
I'm not sure why, because I'm 99% sure I knew what it was...but yeah, marched up to the German teacher's classroom, opened the door and said "Hi, miss x was wondering if she could borrow a fallopian tube?"
She looked at me like I had two heads... I remember instantly confirming that 1% in my head and just thought "fùck". Mumbled something like "I think I'm on a wild goose chase" and got the hell out of there. Thankfully the German teacher wasn't teaching a class at the time so there was no students in there.
Shudder to think of it. One of those moments where I could be having a perfect day and then my brain will think of that, leading to this feeling: http://cdn.electricpig.com.s3-external-3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/oh-god-why.jpg

grindle · 13-04-2012 11:20AM

Angeles wrote: »

I remember the look on the boys face after the manager presenting the bottle i was asking for.. I didn't see the boy show up for work after that.

He's the cheeky prick because you don't understand the moral of 'the boy who cried wolf'?

Got sent for a long stand. Half an hour nicely wasted. I was grand, put my headphones on while I was waiting.

Got sent for a skyhook. Shame.

Got asked to take this copper pipe off the fella on the ground below me - it was hooked up to a small generator. 60 volts of awesomeness.

A friend was sent to get a bottle of air. She was sent to about ten different members of staff.

clappyhappy · 13-04-2012 11:21AM

Working in a restaurant I had a kitchen porter that said he wanted to train to be a chef, I said fine but you got to know the basics. Gave him chef whites, told him wash his hands and we will start with desserts. I told him to make a meringue base for me. Gave him the basic recipe, egg whites, sugar, vinegar. He gets ingredients, breaks an egg, I said its egg whites not whole eggs, I told him go back into fridge and pick out the eggs with only the egg whites in them,he would know them because they would be lighter!!! He must have spent about 20 mins going through the 30 dozen box of eggs, poor guy never left it down. He did go on to catering college so I'm sure he will pass it on

:D

rainbowdrop · 13-04-2012 11:31AM

I used to work in a factory that did a stock take about once a year! I was shown to a row of shelves that had about 50 large tubs full of screws, nuts and bolts (each one containing thousands of each) and told to count them. Was at it for a few hours before somebody took pity on me and showed me the proper way to do it:o.

Your supposed to weigh one screw on a small weighing machine, and then weigh the whole lot together and the machine will calculate the total lol

Pranks you fell for when you were young!

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