Playing Practical Jokes

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OK, this will definitely relate to lack of empathy, or even perhaps failure to appreciate the humour value of something (i.e. whether something will actually be appreciated as funny or will have gone over the line).

Has anyone had a problem with playing practical jokes on people that they definitely didn't appreciate?

I can remember a joke I played on someone once (years ago), it wasn't a nasty joke, didn't hurt anyone or involve ridicule or damage to anything. I didn't imagine the person would be fooled by the joke, but they were (more fool them ), they were an adult not a child, and when I saw they were taking it seriously I 'fessed up because I got worried. This person's mother was really scathing towards me afterwards and never treated me the same again, and I realised that the person had probably got excited about it and then told her they were upset - although they didn't express the upset to me, and she was therefore defending them. I just couldn't believe they fell for it.

Anyone else had experience where a practical joke misfired and they don't get why or didn't expect the reaction or situation to escalate as it did?

I'm a rare practical joker, but my mind occasionally goes into overdrive with fab ideas, so if a situation presents itself (and it would only occur with someone I knew well) and having lack of empathy perhaps I mis-perceive whether it is wise to play a joke or not.

I haven't played a practical joke in a long time. I had the chance to get ahold of some police tape recently after a road was closed because of ice. I wanted to take it and put it up around the front door of a business that some people I know own but I know they wouldn't find t very funny at all. But still...

I was perpetrator and victim of many pranks in college. Besides studying, pranking was my primary form of entertainment.

After my colonoscopy this morning, they left me alone to get dressed. After I got dressed, I decided to make the bed (guerney).

The nurse caught me short sheeting it. She wasn't impressed since the first thing they would do is replace the sheet and blanket.

It didn't work, but it was worth the effort.