As I finished out last school year, I realized I was one of the last people that would be in the building for the summer. It would be locked up tight and no one would be in due to the pandemic. Since I wouldn’t be back the next school year, I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to get the one who likes to prank everyone else...ALL the time! We shall call this person “Mark Buehrle” to ensure his privacy, I wouldn’t want to embarrass him. Knowing that “Mark” is a Bears and Cubs fan it was only fitting to leave a picture of the teams he HATES everywhere in his room. Packers and White Sox Logos it was! For good measure, I threw in the 40th birthday decorations that we forgot to use when he turned 40...several years prior. When I say everywhere… there wasn’t a place I didn’t think to put them. It was perfect, school would start and he wouldn’t have time to find them all. He would just take down the obvious ones. I was so proud! I am not this creative with pranking people. Who knew that he would come in a little early to help with a new teacher. Busted, he started to take down all the pictures. “Mark” even managed to be slightly impressed with my sneakiness, although I admited to nothing! He took everything he saw down before anyone even knew they were there….well that was disappointing. It has been about 10 months since those pictures were placed in that classroom. Just the other day I received a text message from “Mark.” It was simply this… I did cut out the thank you at the end of the text message, again not wanting to embarrass him :-)
That made it all worthwhile… hopefully there are still more to find in time!
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3/3/2021 07:59:21 am
Your text shows that rivalries can be so much fun, especially within friends.
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3/3/2021 02:53:10 pm
Mark Buehrle would definitely be impressed, and not all embarrassed. You have to salute a good prank, and who would have thought you of all people could pull it off. I am sure, like really sure, that this Mark Buehrle guy will one day, when you are least expecting it, pay you back. Since he likes to do it ALL the time. But you sound like you put a great effort into that one. Well done.
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trina
3/3/2021 07:09:45 pm
You have got to have fun when you can! I miss seeing you every day!
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Lisa Goldman
3/3/2021 08:17:45 pm
This is awesome! Many laughs still creeping up months later!
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Brittany
3/3/2021 09:10:51 pm
Awww! I love that he stumbled upon one 10 months later. At this point if I were "Mark", I would almost hope to continue to stumble upon them.
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Heidi
3/3/2021 09:34:24 pm
A brilliant prank! I'm so glad that one survived 10 months to result in a text.
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EugeniaKouts
3/3/2021 11:18:59 pm
Great job! Glad you kept it out of my room! Miss you my friend!
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Sara T.
3/4/2021 08:16:26 pm
I can't be the only one that is impressed that Mark Buehrle made it to your blog to comment on this story!
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