That's Just Crazy Talk :: A Crazy Carnival

While leaving for my daily trip to Tar-jay the other day, I came across this lovely pick up truck.

It was at the home of our neighbors down the street who have 2 children in high school and 1 in college. For the past 2 1/2 years that we have lived here, they have continuously had some sort of various prank being played or shoe polished snarkiness written on cars at their house.

And I love it. It takes me back to high school: a time when attention spans and cheerleader skirts were at their shortest and sarcasticity {fine, I made that word up} reigned supreme.
Was your high school like this?

I graduated with 31 of the most creative and wittiest people I know. That's right- 31 {including 2 foreign exchange students and one first cousin}. While we were close in our friendships {we really didn't have a choice}, we were FIERCE with practical jokes.

Here is a sampling {that I'm willing to admit to} of CRAZY pranks we played in high school:
* A note for younger readers and possibly members of the senior high youth group I lead: This is where I step in and say, "Please do as I say, NOT as I did in High School". I wouldn't recommend any of these things to get you points on your resume or into any college. And they might actually get you into trouble. So just enjoy my story and Don't Try This at Home.

Area #1: Your car
As soon as you were able to drive and had a car, said car became the object of torture. Of course there is the basic shoe polish, but we always took it a step further.
* Hubcaps were randomly "borrowed". A good friend of mine never had 4 at the same time.
* I have known of sardines being put under the back seat of a car.
* And I have helped a friend remove an ENTIRE dead Christmas tree from the back seat of her car. {This is why they invented power windows. Those roll down ones were too easy to prank.}
* My favorite, though, is the airbrushed tag placed on the front where the driver didn't notice. Something like "I love my boy/ girlfriend" or "Destin '95" were always favorites.

Area #2: Your house
I am a little embarrassed to admit this here on the world wide interweb, but I might have possibly been a part of some late night home invasion hijinks.
* Your basic house TP* Rolling {I have found out from neighbors shown above that to clean this, you actually can light the TP on fire and it burns it away and not the trees. And it's SO cool to watch.}
* A possible house fork-ing or two {where you stab forks into the recipients yard}.
* And the best ever: tuna spread in front yard. Every cat in the neighborhood is in the yard in the morning.

* You know this means toilet paper, right? I just try not to write "toilet" unless it's absolutely necessary.

Area #3: Your Locker
If you have not mentally blocked out this time period of your life and recall high school, you know that your locker was like your little home away from home. You primped there with your magnetic mirror, put on your scented lip gloss and went about your merry way. But every now and again, you found a little surprise waiting for you.
* My locker was covered in streamers or filled with trash MANY days.
* Many locks were given new homes on different lockers if you happened to leave yours unlocked.
* There might have been the occasional Coke strategically placed on top of your locker set to splatter at your feet when the locker was opened.
* And the best of all time: {a combo of Area 1 and 3}- Someone's car unexpectedly arrived in the locker room. The whole car. Inside the locker room.
It might possibly have gone down in history. Not that I know anything about it.

Please know all these things were done between friends back and forth to each other in high school. We didn't have hateful intentions; it was all in good fun.

So, here's to the post-it note bandits down the street. Thanks for carrying on the legacy of inventive pranks. I trust that your creativity will take you places. Like Jail. I'm sure they'll be hiring at some think tank for pranks REAL soon. And the Tar-jhay is just down the street if that falls through. You can get all the post-its you want there.

What Crazy Things have you got going on in your life? Crazy shoes? Crazy experience in the check out line? A Crazy Eights game? A Crazy kid phrase or 2? Hop on board the Crazy Train! Just click on "You're Next!" down below and add the link to your "Crazy" post {not your whole blog}. And link your post back to this list so other people can join in on the crazy fun. Just follow the MckLinky instructions once you click below and it will be a breeze.

Unless you are crazy. Then we'll talk.

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In completely different news {that is still kinda crazy}, I am a finalist for a blog award! What in the world? My friend Amber {from Space Camp} nominated me for an award at TheBump.com and I cannot believe I'm a finalist! The finalists are people you've probably never heard of like Dooce, MckMama and NieNie {who was AMAZING on Oprah last week}. Yes. I fit right in there.
NOT. {I love a well-placed "Not", don't you? Too bad the correct placement is in 1990.}
But, if you want to give me a vote {or the others, for that matter!}, hop on over right here to the Stay At Home Mom Finalists.

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Have fun with the crazy carnival and be sure to leave a comment to let new folks know you stopped by!