Do You Like Practical Jokes?

A good practical joke is best served up cold. My brother called me one night at 1:40AM and began blathering about him and his wife getting a divorce. It literally made me sick to my stomach, since I absolutely love his wife to death. He went on and on for 20 minutes, and we talked about him going to counseling, and his preacher, and all kinds of stuff, and then at 2:00AM he says, Well, I need to go, now, my movie is about to start, and I started some more dialogue about him getting a divorce, and he said, We ain't getting no divorce, I just didn't want to fall asleep before my movie came on! I told him right then and there, I would get even with him. Well, as it happened, about a month later, I saw some ad in the paper about a divorce sale. A wonderful revenge plot thickened, and that weekend I put an ad in the paper with a huge title, DIVORCE SALE, EVERYTHING MUST GO!!!! (This was 25 or more years ago, and then you got a bill in the mail for an ad.) The ad went on to say 2500 Sq. Ft. home, newly redecorated, gourmet kitchen, full daylight basement, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, LR DR, 3/4 acre lot in ground 16 by 32 foot swimming pool, $35,000.00 And I put his address in there and his telephone number and said "Call after 11:00 PM, ask for Bud. " That weekend, over 800 calls were made, and people came by all weekend. Then 2 weeks later, he got a $60.00 bill for the ad. He told me that he was going to get even with me, and I said, "Do it quick, because the next one I have planned for you is even better!" He never did get me back. Not to this day. One day on the radio on April 1 a few years later, someone called in and told the story of this practical joke, and I was laughing so hard, I had to pull the car over.