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I mean. I was involved in every kind of prank imaginable. Pranks are a great substitute for raiding the tribes on the other side of the valley. As long as they are witty, unexpected, and don’t cause (serious) damage, pranks are a fantastic outlet, they are entertaining, and they keep you out of real trouble. I mean, if I listed all of the pranks I could remember … it would take a long, long long, time.

Yeah. some of them were a bit dangerous. And some were a tad destructive. And I am sure most were somewhat annoying. But I mean…. it was awesome.

1) Switching ALL the political signs in a west-hartford neighborhood. I mean ALL of them. Personal favorite. Every year.

2) Garbage-can bowling.

3) Mailbox baseball.

4) Snowballs at cars and trucks – especially police cars – I pity Connecticut police officers. They were mere pawns for our entertainment.

5) Lighting a stream gasoline across the road.

6) Scotch tape across the road between signs (favorite)

7) Switching hubcaps between cars in the same driveway.

8) Every imaginable amount of trouble you can get into with fireworks

9) Shooting out Streetlights with rocks or wrist-rockets.

10) Hanging signs upside down. Switching Signs.

11) Moving under-construction signs, road blocks etc in some confusing arrangement.

12) Collecting traffic cones and then making ‘crop circles’ with them somewhere unexpected.

13) Drawing chalk-outlines of ‘dead’-people in random places.

14) Moving an entire fence. (that was so fun I still can’t believe we did it).

15) Hanging whatever strange thing was possible from the school flag pole.

16) Stacking bales of hay in the middle of main street.

17) Every imaginable bit of trouble you could get into with model rocketry.

18) Trying to ‘spank’ girls while driving by in a car, hanging out the window. (never succeeding. that would be uncool).

19) Stuffing old clothes as a dummy and throwing it out of the car.

20) (oops…. Accidentally lighting the biggest brush fire in the city’s history…)

21) Minibike jousting.

22) On bikes: Snowball or insult Hit and run on the older boys. (omg. so awesome.)

23) I met my girlfriend Anna Marie by just walking up to her and grabbing her backside. We dated for the whole summer. I mean, you just can’t do this stuff any more.

You get the idea. In other words. Celebrating life. 🙂

Sorry but it was waaaaay better than video games, getting high, or drinking.