'Carefully step over a non-existing obstacle': 25+ Witty ways to innocently mess with someone's head

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Feb 13, 2023 5:00 PM EST

These people love to play small innocent pranks just to confuse the people around them. A lighthearted prank can be a fun way to connect with friends or coworkers, so these Redditors shared their favorite ways to screw with people's heads. There are some excellent ideas here! 

Most of the pranks involve confusing the victim of the prank just a little – by moving around random objects, or handing them something and walking away. My favorite, though, is the person who said their aunt hides ping pong balls in her medicine cabinet before a party. Lo and behold, someone is getting the ping pong ball surprise of shame for being nosy! There are some great dad-joke style pranks as well, in case you're thinking of pranking your kids or family members. We could all take notes from these harmless pranksters!

Next, check out these people who logged onto social media not knowing they were about to get a fiery roasting. 

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    Facial expression - r/AskReddit Posted by u/jacree8678 29 20 What are some harmless ways to f with people? S27
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    Font - MrXirtam When using the military phonetic alphabet, I'll use all the right ones except Q. "A as in alpha, g as in golf, q as in cucumber" "Cucumber starts with C" "Oh that's a sea cucumber, I meant a regular one"
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    Font - Knork14 If you ever have a moment with their computer or cellphone use their search engine to look for a bunch of non-sense products and then erase the search history. The algoritm will think they have a interest in said products and put a bunch of adds recomending them for the next few days.
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    Font - x86_64_ There was a story on Reddit a while back where a guy was refilling his wife's ketchup bottle so that it was constantly almost empty. For months (years?) she would use the same bottle and he waited for the day she noticed that it never emptied. She bounced the bottle off his head when he revealed his game. Edit:. I found it! Looks like it was only for a few weeks. Still a fun read. https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/com ments/3140c1/tip_my_wife_into_beli eving_in_magic_that_long_con/
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    Font - whatislife4 (S When at work, tell someone: I'm going to the bathroom do you need anything?
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    Font - I mispronounce Famous peoples names constantly then say it correctly randomly so they never know what to expect. Billie Eleash, John Legends, Jason Ackles.
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    Font - SuperRadTikiDad Call someone on the phone, and when they answer say, "sorry I can't talk right now" and hang up.
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    Font - Wrackandruin I mess with colleagues during meetings by controlling how they sit. You copy everything they do to start, they lean back, you lean back, etc. Then, slowly, take the lead. If they are sitting back. Sit forwards. I have managed to start mini- mexican waves of people moving back and forth in meetings.
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    Font - beam_me_up_MFer Buy a set of "Voice Activated" or "Motion Activated" stickers from Amazon, and the possibilities are endless 12.3k Reply Share Asylum Brews. I'm so getting these for the toilet at work
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    Font - Juliet Alfa We put one on the printer at work, which is in the center of our floor. It was a sheet with instructions on phrases to say. It was hilarious.
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    Font - 91 Kitzinger1 I do this every so often because it's kind of a game to me to see how long I can keep it up till the person catches on. I repeat the last word the person says in question form. Example: "Hey, me and Jenny are headed to Jim's Pizza Hut." "Jim's Pizza Hut?" "Yeah, you know the one on F street." "F Street?" Over there near the harbor with the big carousel." "Carousel?"
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    Font - "Yeah, you know the one you went with me and Jane." "Jane?" "My girlfriend." "Girlfriend?" "Ok, what the f you?" is wrong with Once they call you out and have caught on the game ends. I've carried on a conversation over an hour once doing this. It's really awesome when the person you are doing it to has gone through this a few times with you. My daughter has gotten me a few times herself and she'll laugh on and off for the day at my expense. Her husband has called me an al for teaching th
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    Font - saben1te I'm a huge fan of just handing somebody something without any explanation and walking away.
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    Font - MufinPOWAH . 4 mo. ago If someone asks for your name, saying something like "Jack, but with only one 'p"" 2.7k Reply Share turlian 4 mo. ago 3 "It's Dave, but without the F" there's no F in Dave" "I know, that's what I said."
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    Font - Less-Lunch-472 When someone knocks on the public washroom door you are in respond with come in! 2.6k Reply Share Ven_Landry I like asking if they have a warrant. My father prefers to ask if they're ready to "answer these, my riddles three."
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    Font - spinozasrobot 5 4 & 4 More When you shake someone's hand, move yours left to right. As they do the traditional up and down, a hilarious circle ensues. 33.2k Reply Share scsibusfault. ... I can't believe I've never thought of this. Totally left/right handshaking from now on.
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    Font - Deradius So I once knew a guy who was a master of awkward humor. Just an extremely awkward, strange man. One time I decided to see if I could make him feel awkward for once. He went for a fist bump and I grabbed his whole fist and shook it up and down. I thought there was no way he could win. He reacted completely naturally. Not flat. Not a pause. He reacted, in the moment, as if he had been born and grew up on a planet where one person goes for a fist bump and the other person shakes the
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    Font - axehind I saw someone on Facebook comment on a picture that "The three of you look great!". There were 4 people in the picture. 12.6k Reply Share Gniphe Every year on National Sibling Day, I post about my two great siblings. I have three siblings.
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    Font - Ruffled_Ferret S Mail someone a red golf ball every week for a while. Then mail them a green golf ball and stop.
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    Font - LongDogWrinkleBits My grandpa glued a quarter to his driveway near the sidewalk and sits in his living room and watches people try to pick it up. I didn't know this till I found a quarter in the driveway one time.
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    Font - Swedish-B-Whistle 3 I put a tiny piece of masking tape over my co-worker's mouse laser on April fool's day one year, wrote "April fool's" on it. He troubleshot every single thing except examining the mouse. He eventually called IT who simply turned the mouse over and pointed it out to him. ) 2
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    Font - meekamunz Plug in a second mouse, leave it under their desk but so you can reach it with your foot. Kick it occasionally. 14.7k Reply Share iesharael I plugged a wireless mouse onto one of my college professor's computers and moved the mouse around every time he wasn't looking at the screen. Did this for a few days and always took back the usb at the end of class without him noticing. Finally when doing my final presentation he realized what was happening when I took my own mouse up with
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    Rectangle - thattjuliett 23 When driving I like to wave at random people as if I knew them. Hilarious to see instant confusion on their faces
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    Font - Shea_J 12 S If I know someone is walking a little ways behind me and I turn a corner with nobody else around I like to run 10-20 steps to widen the gap and then laugh to myself thinking that the person behind me will be confused. I doubt anyone ever notices but I get a kick out of it every time.
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    Font - peepfoot If a bird lands by you and there are people around, crouch down towards the bird and ask "did you bring my messages?" And then just go back to what you were doing.
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    Rectangle - visitjacklake (S) I know someone who always takes an item to a party & leaves it somewhere in the house, ie a trinket/tchotchke.
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    Facial expression - GeminiAccountant LLC My aunt fills her medicine cabinet with ping pong balls whenever she has a party.) Reply Share 9.8k
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    Font - meatlump Have they ever made it through the party without being released? 2.9k Reply Share GeminiAccountantLLC. I don't think so, lol!
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    Font - McCheese Truther Friend of mine once did this with an insanely overgrown turnip from her garden. Like this thing was literally the size of a child. She left it in the passenger seat of their truck with a seatbelt on it.
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    Font - Glitter_puke I am in a decades-long prank war involving the hiding of small unwanted objects. Sometimes I'll be doing something months later and get a text with a picture of the object accompanied by a "you b d.'
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    Font - Burger Thyme My coworker and I prank each other and his way of "getting" me is to hide lighthouse themed items in my station (I hate lighthouses and we get a lot of figurines at work, don't ask) and every time I have to walk across the room and yell "YOU BA like we're living in South Park and toss the item at him while he laughs like a nut job.
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    Font - fu_ben I have the same champagne flutes as my cousin. Every time I go over there, I smuggle one or two into the china cabinet. It was going really well until Thanksgiving, when they caught me. They said, "I thought I was going nuts, I told [partner] that they were multiplying and they said I'm nuts." S
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    Font - The_Real_Evil _Morty I was talking with a supervisor and I happened to have like 4 hard boiled eggs in my jacket pocket for lunch. So while talking with stuff, I took out an egg, cracked and shelled it and ate it. The conversation kept going so I did it again but I could see he was growing quizzical. I waited a few more minutes, pulled out another and ate that too. By then I could tell he was like WTF. The conversation was wrapping up so I pulled the last one out and he stopped mid conver
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    Smile - IWant2rideMyBike 2 @ S Carefully step over a non-existing obstacle.
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