Do you still ever get hood winked?

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Hi, even though most of us have matured and overcome and outgrown many things, I was wondering if people in public still ever pull childish pranks on you.

E.G- You go to a club and someone says something like, "My friend would love to dance with you." You try to proceed but they walk away with a "I don't dance." Meanwhile the other person who set up the joke walks away?

Does this still happen to you? If it does, could someone tell me your experiences and then how to better read cues when it clearly is a joke?

No, but I find people test me a lot of the times, and they also think I don't know that they're just testing me, but I do know straight away.

Like a couple of years ago a man at my volunteer job asked me out. I liked him too, so I went out with him. But about a week later, he suddenly sent me a text saying roughly this: ''I thought I could trust you, but someone told me that they saw you in town 2 days ago arm in arm with another man, now if you are seeing another bloke behind my back then just tell me now, and I don't want any lies.'' I was surprised because I know full well that I hadn't been in town arm in arm with another man at all, I didn't even go out 2 days ago. So first of all, I wanted to know who told him that. He wouldn't tell me, but he said that it wasn't anyone from the charity shop where we volunteered. That was when I got suspicious of whether he was just putting that to see what my reaction was, because everyone outside of work who I knew, didn't know my boyfriend, and all the people he knew outside of work, didn't know me, and the only people who knew us both and knew we were going out were the people at the charity shop, and none of the customers who go in there a lot didn't really know us because we always worked upstairs in the back room, so how could it be somebody who didn't work/volunteer at the charity shop but knew both of us were going out? Well, if could have been true, but we both knew different people so the people I knew couldn't have told the people he knew, and so I just knew he was just trying to test me to see how I would react back. Sadly for him it didn't work because I figured him out, and I think he felt silly after that so he kind of apologized to me.

I got hood winked by a co-worker who I thought was a friend. We went to a movie together one time and something about that experience felt off. I had also been laughing loud at several funny scenes which I could not do.

So long story short, this person had a problem with gossip and enjoyed latching themselves onto others. I had found out two years later that they had a miserable time with me too because of my laughing and even cooked up some other rumors that people behind us asked what was wrong with me. She also hoodwinked me several times on other things. However, I had bad feelings about her before but I just couldn't put my finger on it.

in my office i have only one friend. he is a guy
he tried to hoodwink me several times.
when he came to know that i am going for higher studies via correspondence
he told me he can get me a seat and i just have to pay extra money he would see through entire
procedure.
he told me that its a smalltime university, where they will show that i am regular student but actuallly
i will be distance education student and they will put a decoy whenever there is a inspection
i said no for this offer.
but he kept telling me and calling me up about this offer.
he wanted to earn a commission.
sometimes he would talk about land or house offer and try to convince me of buying that stuff
but i knew right from the beginning this guy is a shady person.
i just keep diplomatic relation with him now that he as resigned i will keep distance from him

These kind of scenarios used to happen a lot when i was younger. Now they dont happen as i dont listen to anybody and i dont go into any group situations, nor put myself in social situations like these. But i still get fooled by people regularly in terms of their intentions. I am working on it with some success. I watch for inconsistencies and am very careful with people.

I think the two main things why these have reduced

1. i dont spend time with people generally outside work
2. i consciously try not to trust people.

I discovered that I am a nerd and I can relate somewhat to Amy Farrah Fowler based on the fact that we are both hyper and impulsive. Also because both of us have been picked on and then because we both are smart cookies.