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2024.03.31.23:40
Earth.USA.Oklahoma.Tulsa.Tulsa.Redfork.Home
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by Redforkian
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(based on true events. names changed, of course)
I was lucky enough to work for the same employer for most of my career. I was there for close to a quarter of a century. I've always wanted to say that, because it just sounds so cool. Quarter of a century, y'all. lol, yeah... ok.
When you work with people for that long, they become family, and you get to know them very, very well. What makes them tick, what makes them happy, sad, mad, and most IMPORTANTLY, what scares the shit out of them!
I had many good friends at work. One of them, John, was one of the best friends I ever had. We worked together for a really long time and saw some shit, let me tell you. We worked closely together daily along with others to ensure the smooth operation of our particular section of the business. We were very good at what we did. Something else we were good at was playing practical jokes on coworkers. In particular, one of our office mates, Christine, was particularly a frequent target of our shenanigans. We loved her to death, but she was just so jumpy it was irresistable to set her up for pranks that would scare the shit out of her. I know, we're horrible humans, but she loved us regardless.
So the set up for this prank was our very large parking bay where we parked large crew trucks during inclement weather and to work on them and other large scale projects. This parking / work bay also happened to have a rather huge freezer where we'd store bags of ice for our crews to use, especially during hot weather.
After a while, the ice machine stopped working so we fast tracked another one since it was in the middle of summer. It came up from Texas the next day. It was the same make and model only brand new, and we were really happy the delivery people had turned it on with a generator before they started their trip from Dallas. It was nice and cold and ready for ice. I called our vendor and had them come out to set up the new machine and get it prefilled so we wouldn't have to wait.
My good friend and coworker, John, and I were overseeing the transition. I had borrowed a fork lift from our stock yard and was moving the old machine out of it's area to later be loaded up on the truck delivering the new one. John came up to me with a devious smile on his face.
"Oh hell," I said, "you've got something in the works, why the hell are you smiling like that?"
"Come here, man," John said with a suspicious tone to his voice like he had some deep secret to reveal.
Oh, he had a plan alright.
You see, the new freezer was big enough to fit a person inside of, we just never got a chance to try it, because it was always full of ice. Duh, right? lol... So here is this freezer half full of ice, and John decides he wants to pull a prank on Christine. His plan was to sit inside the ice freezer (it was only about half full right now, and he could lie inside it). If you opened the door, you'd be staring at John lying there like a dumbass. He'd scream or do whatever. Christine would lose her shit, we'd all get a good laugh. Right?
So of course I was drafted into this exercise of cruelty. I called my boss' cellphone. Luckily, he was in the office with Christine, and we clandestinely planned our prank. John would get inside the freezer and wait for the door to open. I would call bossman, who would then ask Christine to fetch a bag of ice for our Igloo ice water thing in the office. She would go to get the ice, where I would be off to the side on the forklift pretending to be on the phone when I was actually going to film her getting the utter shit scared out of herself.
The plan was executed flawlessly. John got into the ice machine. I made my phone call. Christine came out to get the bag of ice as requested. As she was walking across the parking bay, our boss stuck his head out the door to watch. That sick voyeur. lol.. The time had come. She opened the little door to fetch the bag of ice, John stuck his head out the door and non-chalantly said, "I LIKE BEER."
Christine screamed at the top of her lungs and jumped back almost falling down. I was filming, laughing my ass off, John was losing it while freezing his ass off in the ice machine, and bossman across the parking bay was bent over having an asthma attack laughing so hard.
"I HATE ALL OF YOU!!!!" Christine screamed as she started throwing ice cubes at all of us. We dodged the projectiles, running around with glee.MISSION ACCOMPLISHED AND IT WAS ALL ON VIDEO. (No, I will not share it with you, sorry.)
Years later, we still recount that day. I'm pretty sure Christine peed her pants a little.
Hope you enjoyed the story.
Notice that this is Part I of "Scaring Christine." ;)
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