Posted on 04/01/2011 5:43:08 AM PDT by Lucky9teen
I'm sorry, but due to financial difficulty and being overwhelmed with everything going on in the world, I am not going to do the Friday Silliness Thread anymore.
TGIF!
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No kidding. I've seen tool boxes totally wrapped with masking tape when the mechanic was on vacation. He had a good idea who did it, so when that guy took off he (built like a bull) took that guy's top box, turned it upside down and shook it. There was a drawer that the guy kept small parts in and he had to take every drawer out to clean all the bolts, nuts and cotter pins so the box operated properly again.
Another guy (military) told us about a prank someone pulled at his shop. Someone dumped about a gallon of dirty diesel oil into another mechanic's tool box. That guy had to spend a whole day cleaning his tools. He found out who did it, and when the prankster was off, he drilled a hole into one of his boxes, put a grease fitting into the hole and used an air powered grease gun to fill the entire box with grease.
I managed to put a live bat under the lid of a cooworker’s top box. Unfortunately, I was away when he opened it.
We put a snapping turtle in guy’s beer cooler once.....
My Dad’s favorite prank was to grab a handful of nuts/bots/screws etc. from the “junk bin” and put them in with whatever you had disassembled.
My cousin had someone plant a box of frozen shrimp in his toolbox when he had a bad cold. He couldn’t smell it, but everyone else went out of their way to walk past his work area. When his cold cleared up and he came to work, he started throwing out all his tools until he found it. I can imagine how ripe that smelled.
One of my favorites is when someone, cook, bus boy, whoever, took two or three buckets of ice cold water up to the roof. Then when the dishwasher was dragging out the garbage they'd get doused.
They did this once to a bitchy waitress, when she was all dolled up to go out. Nailed her good. She came back into the kitchen screaming and her make-up was running all over her face and her hair was all screwed up. Hilarious!
Put toothpaste in the middle of Oreo cookies; it stops food thiefs.
The Gentian Violet also served to mark the thief. This had been going on for some time. We knew who was doing it, but couldn't prove it. When confronted he always denied it.
I was going to add one more thing to your reply. We used to have a mechanic who did everything by the book. One day he had finished a brake job and went to wash his hands so he could take in on a quick test drive.
Another mechanic rolled a brake spring under the center of the car. He got into the car, backed it our and saw the spring. He put it back on jacks tands and took of every wheel and brake drum. Of course, the brakes were all OK. He was pi$$ed to say the least.
But they left out the one where you put a co-worker’s stapler in Jell-O (that appeared in both the US and UK versions of The Office).
Or hiding somebody’s cell phone in the ceiling tiles and dialing it repeatedly.
Several years ago I wrapped everything on my boss’s desk in giftwrapping paper while she was out on vacation. Her first day back at the office was April 1.
She commented that her first day back was like Christmas. :)
LOL. You can dress her, but you can't take her out!! Sounds like the waitress we had at a Mexican food place not long ago.
He knew what the rod was, and when he fired it up and the oil pressure light wouldn't go out he looked under the hood and just knew we'd taken it out of his engine. He pulled the distributor right there in the parking lot before he found the unplugged sensor wire.
We used to take a pencil and draw a line from the top of the rotor to the screws on the older Chevy V 8 distributors. The engine would crank, but either backfire or not start at all. We could also make one cylinder miss out by drawing a line from the inside post to the bottom of the cap.
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