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May 21st, 2008

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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 10:59 am
Before he retired, my father was a frequent practical joker at his office. One story (I won't swear to the specifics) began when he found a sign advertising a maid service lying in the road. It was a magnetic sign that had clearly fallen off of a car door. So he took it back to the office and attached it to the passenger door of a co-worker's car (where the victim might not notice it for a while). For the next week or so, Ted drove around the city proudly declaring himself one of the "Mighty Maids". The beauty of it was that no permanent damage was done, and it was trivial for the victim to reverse the prank once he noticed it.

That story came to mind recently when I saw that one of our neighbors had gotten a new truck:

A big jacked up pickup truck too tall to fit in its parking spot.

In my book, a truck that unreasonably big (and that rudely parked) is just begging for mockery. Although I'm not generally comfortable with pranking individuals you don't know, that doesn't stop me from thinking about it. So it strikes me that there could be substantial demand for harmless but embarrassing magnetic signs for this sort of situation.

The question is, what should they say? It's tempting to go with the obvious:

BIG TRUCK
SMALL PENIS

But there must be better options. Suggestions?

One more annoying thing about that parking job... )
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