It's Always the Innocent Who Suffer

6/15/1

Anyone who knows Mike or his family, knows they are all prone to pranks.  He and Carol were two peas in a pod while we lived in the village, constantly pulling pranks on each other.  My personal favorites were Carol sewing Mike's coat sleeves closed while we were at school and Mike taping the office phone to the back of Carol's chair so that every time it rang she could hear it but, turn around as she may, she could never find it.  I think she's been plotting ever since because she had her first prank pulled before we even arrived so when we went to bed our first night, we found our bed had been short sheeted.  That should have been my first clue that we innocent by-standers would most likely suffer most from these merry mischief makers.  One of their favorite pranks is hiding things in each other's shoes and I'm pretty sure that they both emptied their boots of those foreign objects into my boots.   They were also fond of using rubber bands to keep the sprayer on so that when we turned on the water in the sink it would spray whoever was standing at the sink.  This is one prank I'm pretty sure got me more times than anyone else - but I did get sprayed 3 times in one night after I knew the rubber band was in place and ready to go.  James suffered from an attempt to short-sheet Carol.  He was warned ahead of time to let her go to bed first, but she noticed things were a little different than when she left them so she just slept on top of the sheet so James couldn't get into bed and had to sleep on top of the sheet as well.  There are about a billion other little things they've done to each other over the past two weeks, some only affecting the intended target, some affecting the innocent.  With several days left before we return home, I'm curious - and nervous - to see what these two will come up with next.