Last year on April 1st, I made up a memo with an official-like letterhead, and passed it out to the people answering the phones in our clinic. The memo said that there was a cut in the fiberoptic phone line, and since then, dust has entered the line, and needed to be "blown out". The company listed on the memo was contracted to do this. The memo instructed them to place Saran Wrap over the ear and mouthpiece of the phone. If they were using a headset, they were also to place Saran Wrap over that, starting at 8:55am.
At around 8:50, I heard my co-workers saying "it's time...we better wrap our phones"; several of them did in fact wrap their phones (I also placed several rolls of Saran Wrap around the clinic). In the meantime, I was in my cubicle, laughing my a$$ off, and practically wetting my pants. One of them walked by my desk, saw me laughing, and finally figured out that they had been had....
"Last year on April 1st, I made up a memo with an official-like letterhead, and passed it out to the people answering the phones in our clinic. The memo said that there was a cut in the fiberoptic phone line, and since then, dust has entered the line, and needed to be "blown out"."
We pulled that stunt on this one particular sorority girl at OU who was rather cute but dumber than dirt. Frank called her one night and convinced her he was with the phone company and she needed to put her phone in the trash can and put a blanket over it. An hour later one of her sisters called wanting to know if we'd been messing with her sorority sister again cause her phone was in the trash can.