When I was younger, I was quite the April Fools' Day prankster.
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Very often, my younger brother Sean was the target. Amongst my pranks?
One year, I wet his toothbrush and liberally covered the bristles in salt. When the salt dries, you can't see it... until you brush your teeth.
Another year, I was working the night shift and came home before he woke up. I got a roll of packing tape, and cut out long strips in another room so he wouldn't hear the sound of the strips being pulled out. I then took the strips and sealed his door shut. The door swung outwards, not inwards, so he couldn't get out of his room. He told me when I woke up he had to hop out his window to get out of his room.
Yet another time, I went for the classic "shaving cream in the shoes" gag. Now, this prank worked very oddly, because at first I didn't think it worked because of some unusual circumstances surrounding it. My brother for a while there wore these neoprene "deck shoes" everywhere - and I figured they were the best target, because he could easily just rinse them out since they were make of neoprene and there would be no harm done. (An important element to pranks, in my opinion. Inconvenience, nothing actually ruined or costing the person money.) Only, I don't use plain shaving cream... I use shaving cream gel. It doesn't lather up until you rub at it. Well, April Fools' Day came and went, and Sean didn't come back to comment on this latest prank. So a few weeks later, I ask him if he'd caught sight of the shaving cream in the deck shoes or whatnot before the prank got him. That's when he busted up laughing, because the prank worked out in an unexpected way. Because without my knowledge, Sean had washed his neoprene deck shoes the day before... and throughout the day as they kept foaming up, he thought it was as a result of some soap he hadn't managed to rinse out properly. We both had a good laugh about that.
And in case you're wondering, Sean tried a prank on me once... once. He got my stepsister Nicole in on the act, as she caught my attention and asked me to come over and check on something. Well, she was leading me past an open door that had the light off... and Sean was waiting inside. It's a rather odd fact, but I seem to be lacking a "flinch" reflex - something they'd witnessed before, and wanted to see if they couldn't test its limits. So as Nicole led me past the door, Sean leapt out and yelled at me to see if I would duck away. I didn't. I heel-punched him in the face without even turning my neck to look in his direction. I immediately apologized, got him an ice pack, and he said it was all right. But he never tried to pull another prank on me. ;)