About 15 years ago, a friend and I started playing pranks on each other. We started simply with things like changing the screen background to be a screenshot of the desktop to changing the language of the keyboard so that he couldn't log in. It went on for a long long time... but the one that happened to start the prank war for us was a simple little peep, a hard sugar coated little treat for Easter. He left it on my desk one day and this little bird peep stared at me, mocking me.
So there was an intial peep incursion. It was this first step that lead the the First Peep War, but I'm getting ahead of myself. See this little espionage peep, he was a double agent. He was sent back and forth. Hidden in coat pockets, knapsacks and other places one would not expect to find this little peep. It went on for months. I'd find a peep in my jacket pocket, he'd find the peep in his laptop bag. What made this most strange was that this wasn't even close to Easter season when peeps are found all over the place. No, this was in the middle of fall or winter.
Sometimes the peep would be hurled from over the barrier separating our cubicles. The timeliness was important to wait for an important phone call so that you could distract the individual with the stale hard peep knocking him in the head.
In 1999, I took a premptive strike. I stocked up on peeps after the Easter holiday, getting as much as I could for about $20. It was used to do things like escalate the Peep Incursion to an actual all out assault. I'd open his sealed deliveries and insert them carefully into his packages, resealing them so that he wasn't aware they were tampered. He'd open his box expecting something like books, DVDs, computer parts, and low and behold, it would be a box of peeps.
But the little guys have no allegience. No, they are turncoats amongst their ranks. Soon I started to find those very same peeps in my drawers, cabinets, and jackets. But over time, the ranks for the peeps dwindled due to attrition and violent endings. Maybe even some weren't even ever found like those misplaced Easter Eggs.
This photo journal is not about the Peep Incursion or the First Peep War. No this about the Mother of all Peep Wars. It is about the Great Peep War of 2000. I had assembled boxes and boxes of Peeps to make up my army. I solicited a manager at Duane Reade, offering the entire inventory post Easter for $50. I just wanted all the peeps, the rest of the candy was to stay behind. After a few minutes of pondering, the manager accepted my offer which was very much below the 50% off markings. I had assembled my army, and this is the photos to show how they marched in and took over his cubicle.
The assemble of the army
It's a nice day in NYC for a Great Peep War
continues here....
The Great Peep War of 2000 Part 2
Do you have evidence of any of your practical jokes? I found this one when cleaning out one of my hard drives. I knew I had the proof, I just couldn't remember which hard drive it was on. If you do, post them here.
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