I never laughed so hard!

As a tank mechanic in the Army, I received a private, fresh out of basic training and AIT, to my squad. He was one of those "In AIT, I was taught that..." types. One day, I gave him a hammer and a piece of chalk and told him to check an entire company of M1A1 Abrams for soft spots in the armor and proceeded to show him how. All afternoon, you'd hear *ding* *ding* *ding* and see "X" marks on the sides of the tanks. Everyone in the motorpool #### near died trying to keep a straight face (when they walked by the kid anyways)....

 

I used to work with a bunch of practical jokers at a state park. One time there was one guy that was saying that he was happy because he only had a couple more payments to make on his John Deere lawn tractor. He was also saying how he hates to write checks and run the check book so he leaves it up to his girlfriend. Wellllll, one of the other guys gets the idea to have his girlfriend call this guy up during lunch one day, to tell him she is with John Deere accounting and they are coming to his house to reposess his mower because he was behind in payments.

Sure enough the next day at lunch, the guys cell phone rings. He goes outside to take the call and he is pacing back and forth in the parking lot. Every once in a while his right arm would go up in the air. We were inside busting a gut. Pretty soon, he comes back in and tells us "I have to go home guys, i'll meet you at the job site after lunch". He takes off out the driveway, stones flying everywhere. He actually went home and hid the lawn mower in the woods!!!!!

He found out it was a joke by calling his girl friend...after he hid the mower in the woods...to cuss her out for not making the payments. She told him she was making the payments and besides, "if they are coming to reposess something they are not going to call you to tell you that are coming...you stupid ###". He didn't talk to us for 2 days after that...lol!

 

When I was a Boy Scout and we use to send some of the younger Scouts to look for a Left Handed Smoke Bender. What was really memorial was one of the Adults in our Troop fell for it too. Another I was driving on the bypass near Gila Bend,Az. and it was raining. A Driver had woken up and stated the obivous and I had to pipe in. I told no it wasn't raining that was liquid sunshine. He didn't like that comment very much.

 

my very first job was at MeDonalds, they store I worked at had a basement (well most do), anyhow initiaition for the new hires was to send them downstairs to get two cases of quarter pounder special sauce.

Special sauce is only used on Big Macs

In the 4 months I worked there, every new hire fell for it except me, my best friend worked there also and warned me ahead of time.

 

We had a new guy at an automotive shop I worked at. We sent him to a parts store to grab a metric pipe wrench and a muffler bearing. We called the shop while the kid was on the way and told them about the situation. Well, the store went through their inventory and played along, and eventually called another parts store and asked to see if it was in stock. "yup, they got it in stock". We started doing the same runaround for every new guy and eventually we had 4 parts stores in on the prank and would stretch it out for a whole afternoon on the poor kids.

When I worked in the oilfield, I was involved with doing wireline work where we would send electric logging tools into various oil/gas wells (log temperature, the cement bond between the casing/ground, various things). We had one driller that would get his newest roughneck to "get ready for the wireline logging truck! You need to find the straightest tree in the woods and cut it down. Then, you have to shave off all the bark and make notches every 1 foot so they can log the well!!!" We'd show up on site and there would be this proud roughneck standing there with a shaved tree and notches neatly cut into it every 1 foot. HAHAHA. BUUUURRRRRN. When they weren't looking we'd also take styrofoam coffee cups and write "rain gauge" on it and stick it to guys hard hats with some grease when they weren't looking. They'd be walking around with a rain gauge on their hardhats!

 

My first job was a Publix bagger that I got at the age of 16. Three weeks in, I was told I needed a special license to operate the carts used by the elderly by a senior bagger. Well being a newbie I suspected something was bound to happen and this was it. One year after that I was training new bagger when I decided to pull the same prank but I decided to extend it by getting the managers involved who were on duty. After 5 managers said they could not teach him nor find the manual, he called up another store. I have never seen a highschooler so embarassed or turn red after the manager told him it was not nesscary. Management and I got a big kick out of it though.

KH

 

Should have sent him after the "sky hook" and seen how long it took for him to get back.

 

Or the wood strecther

 

Or a left handed monkey wrench.

 

Back in the 80s, I was an on-call firefighter/emt in my hometown, it was a right of passage for the new guys after they passed training and went from Auxiliary to on-call that they could sleep in at the station, this was normally fairly uneventful, but we had an over-jealous newbie finally get his stripes and was making us crazy. We set it up with dispatch to send a test tone over to the station without it going over the air announcing a working house fire using said rookies house address. He jumped out of bed got dressed and on the truck and the rest of us stayed in bed and refused to go, telling him that we went last time someone else would be along in a while. This went on for about 15 minutes until he pulled one of the trucks out on the apron in front of the station and had the lights and siren screaming, this was 2AM so the neighbors weren't happy and we put a quick stop to the prank, he calmed down and we still get a good laugh out of it, to this day when telling stories at that station.