Ben, ‘11

October 18th, 2008

At first I didn’t think anything of it. It started as one simple incident that didn’t seem too sinister. But I now look back at it and realize that that one event was the Battle of Fort Sumter for the Civil War, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand for World War I. I began as an innocent bystander, but I have now been forced to enter into the thick of it. For, you see, my suite is at war. Don’t get me wrong, we are great friends and get along quite well, but we are in the midst of a Prank War.

There are four of us who live in the suite, two in each room, and we are connected by a bathroom. One day several weeks ago, an orange traffic cone magically appeared in the middle of my room. My roommate and I laughed about it for a few minutes, realizing that it was our one suitemate who did it, but then another traffic cone appeared in our room the next day. Another strange incident, but nothing too sinister. However, it then escalated quickly. The next day, a friend’s bicycle appeared in the middle of our room. At this point, my roommate and I knew we had to have a laugh ourselves. So, we kindly returned the two traffic cones to our suitemate’s room by hiding them in his bed. Little did we know that this was viewed as retaliation.

So, he responded by hiding the cones in our fridge and our dresser drawers. Several days later, he covered every square inch of our room in newspapers. We responded by taping “Caution Tape” all around his room, which provoked him to stuff our refrigerator with packing peanuts. I had stayed out of it for the most part thus far, but I now had to get involved. So, while he was gone for this weekend, we stuck hundreds of Post-It notes all over his entire room. Now, we must wait to see what his response will be. Below shows the progression of our pranks.

The original cones and the bike.

Newspapers covering the room

Packing peanuts in the fridge

Payback

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