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Dorothy V

(462 posts)
16. Oh Lordy! My friend, a tarantula, and me!
Thu Jan 1, 2026, 11:40 AM
Jan 1

It was the 5th grade, and the school was in the Mojave Desert. October, overcast skies, noon recess. Friend and I spot a tarantula out on the playground, no doubt a male looking for a lady tarantula. Now, I am scared of spiders, much less tarantulas, but my buddy got a gleam in her eye, nudged the spider into her lunchbox, and the plot was hatched! There was a boy who had been bedeviling us, and with me as lookout, she slipped into our classroom and put the tarantula in his desk!
Class starts, the boy opens his desk, and promptly lets out a scream that was surely heard plumb to Vegas! The teacher runs up, takes one look, and her scream was no doubt heard from Berdoo to Albuquerque! Pandemonium! Screams and yells and the class bolting for the door! The school custodian had to come and de-tarantula the kid's desk.
Unfortunately my buddy and I gave ourselves away by laughing our fool heads off. Swats in the office and then more trouble at home. It was worth it though!
That boy never bothered us again.

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I have a couple, in middle school a friend and I found an old hubcap (cars had them in those days) and we would wait wcmagumba Jan 1 #1
Love it malaise Jan 1 #2
We did something similar berniesandersmittens Jan 1 #3
ROFL malaise Jan 1 #7
Throwing water balloons at passing cars Beatlelvr Jan 1 #4
They'd shoot you today malaise Jan 1 #10
Dead Patty Play Pal PikaBlue Jan 1 #5
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I hid in my sister's closet at bedtime... MiHale Jan 1 #11
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When I was at summer camp me and a friend Phoenix61 Jan 1 #12
Hahaha malaise Jan 1 #14
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Ouch! malaise Jan 1 #18
Oh Lordy! My friend, a tarantula, and me! Dorothy V Jan 1 #16
You win the thread 😀 malaise Jan 1 #19
Really bizarre Grim Chieftain Jan 1 #20
You folks have me howling with laughter malaise Jan 1 #21
One I pulled on my best friend bif Jan 1 #22
Too wicked malaise Jan 1 #24
The invisible wire trick nuxvomica Jan 1 #23
LOL malaise Jan 1 #25
I placed a Garter snake, small one.... FarPoint Jan 1 #26
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He figured it out rather quickly... FarPoint Jan 1 #32
Not a prank, exactly, but a "gotcha" moment that I still relish 60+ years later. 3catwoman3 Jan 1 #28
Love it malaise Jan 1 #30
This prank was at a little older age. Involved a '57 Chevy. marked50 Jan 1 #29
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