TallTom
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May as well enjoy some practical jokes. I worked in underground facilities. You parked remotely and they had underground trams that took us to work. We would park in designated areas.
There were other contractors besides my company. It was still a team effort. We all got along well.
At that time I drove a Toyota product. As it happens one of the other contractors also drove a Toyota. You don't intentionally get to work at the same time. We usually don't see each other outside of the work area. But sometimes we coincidentally may see each other coming or going to our vehicles. One day I saw him parking. We exchanged our pleasantries and we went about our day. Depending on our particular responsibilities our quiting time was not structured. We left when we left.
One day, his car was parked pretty close to mine. I don't know what made me do it, but I got the bright idea to see if my key would fit in his car. I was sort of stunned when they worked!
I had just struck prank gold!
So I started to scheme.
It was going to be a slow drawn out prank.
I started to go in early and wait to see where he parked.
I purposely avoided him seeing me in the mornings coming to work.
He'd go to work.
I'd move his car. At 1st just a small distance from his original spot.
And I'd go to work as usual.
A few days later, I'd do it again. Each time making the distance farther away and in different directions.
Never saying a word.
My days to do it would decrease in time intervals, and the distance kept getting larger. I was also making sure I kept track of his work efforts and get an idea of his departure times, and purposely leave and get to my little surveillance spot. He'd get outside and I'd crack up watching the look of total confusion we've all had when we forget where we parked.
This process was weeks!
I noticed after about the 6th week, he seemed "distracted" at work now. LOL
By that week he was now like in a totally different direction and location from where he parked by about 100 yards now.
He would show up from the tunnel and just sort of stare at his spot he had parked in for like almost a minute. Then he looked like Galileo observing the skies for new universes. Walking slowly through our parking area. Slowly losing his mind.
By now I'm starting to run out of distance to do this.
So I finally decided I had to end it.
So I got out of work before him, went to his car and drove it close to our exit spot and stayed out of line of sight but I could watch. He came out, I pulled around in his car rolled down the window and totally straight faced said "Hey Al you need a ride?"
He sort of went blank for a few seconds. He was processing.....lol
He looked at the car, sort of trying to process what he was seeing in this.
He just sort of wandered to the passenger side and got in. Wasn't saying a word. I was worried a stroke may be starting. Lol.
Al, do me a favor and take out your keys. He never said a word. He just took out his keys.
Al how on earth do you have your keys and I'm driving your car?
He looked around inside the car and was realizing it was in fact his car. Then he looked at me.
How the Hell......
I started laughing.
I broke it all down for him. He was like man you can't believe what I've been going through! I thought I was going crazy so bad I was scheduling doctors appt.
We shared that for months down in the hole.
I got listen to what was going through his mind.
We all had some great laughs from it.
I looked over my shoulder the rest of the year afterwords.
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