I started this week a little differently than most. My Sunday night was spent subscribing two of my good friends to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton’s Presidential campaign volunteer groups, Tea Party newsletters and making them ‘World of Anime’ account profiles. This was only the beginning of what turned into an epic five-day battle between four friends.
With the combination of boredom, procrastination and just the slightest tinge of animosity my friends and I decided late Sunday night that we should pair off and engage in a prank war from Monday to Friday. We established a few rules to keep everything fair, including no involvement of parents, RA’s or other authority figures. No substantial physical harm or destruction of personal property were a few more. Each day was declared as a new round, and the winners of the most rounds would be named the champions.
So, here’s a play-by-play of each round. Feel free to take inspiration and try them out on your friends!
Round 1.
By the time Monday morning rolled around, my partner and I had mapped out our entire week of pranks and our opponents were already receiving the first wave. Both of them had received a slew of emails and calls from various political and religious organizations that morning and were successfully annoyed with the amount of spam they were receiving before their first class. Later that day, my partner and I waited for one of our opponents to leave for her class — that’s when we struck. We put Vaseline on her shower caddy and shampoo bottles, placed tin foil under her sheets, and then Saran wrapped her mattress and pillows. We also replaced her photos with Internet memes, placed black tape over the keyboard of her laptop, and when she went to take the tape off she found her that her desk lamp would not help since we had replaced it with a black light.
Our opponents retaliated when my partner and I left for dinner. They took my string lights down and wrapped them around my bed posts so I was unable to climb into my bed, moved my baked goods into the fridge, and spread my dishes around the room so I was unable to walk anywhere without stepping on a dish. My partner’s body wash was filled with Dr. Pepper, and her bed was wrapped with lint roller sheets.
It was safe to say that my partner and I won the first round.
Round 2.
A much more valiant effort was given by our opponents in the second round. While I was in class they gift-wrapped my mattress, pillows and laptop. They also covered the objects and walls of my room with pictures of “Pepe” the frog and switched my shampoo and conditioner. My partner and I taped balloons on one of our opponent’s ceiling, flipped her desk and drawers, and Saran-wrapped her desk chair. She had also told us earlier that day that she was planning on doing laundry that night, so we decided to hide her dirty clothes in various spots around her bedroom.
Round two ended in a tie.
Round 3 and 4.
As the week progressed, the four of us slowed down considerably in our vindictive efforts, due to midterms and other academic commitments. My partner and I decided to do a classic: hide an adult novel somewhere within the belongings of our opponents. Neither of these novels have been found yet and the moment when they do cannot come soon enough. Our opponents decided to not retaliate on Wednesday or Thursday.
Round 5.
On Friday, we struck by filling one of our opponents’ backpacks with marbles and taped her vast collection of pens onto her ceiling. We plastered pictures of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton around the walls of her partner’s room as the final act of shenanigans.
