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Our boss has been out of the office for the last two days, so we (mostly me)  came up with a little prank. I like to call it the “Cup and Marble Maneuver”. Here are the steps I took to pull it off.

1. I went to the dollar store and bought a bunch of paper cups
2. Went to 2 other stores looking for a bag of marbles. Old fashion marbles are hard to find it the age of electronic toys. I even contemplated using gum balls.
3. I filled one cup with marbles, placed a piece of paper on it, flipped it upside down, placed it on the desk and pull the piece of paper out from under it.
4. Placed the remaining cups around her cube (There is still some cups in her drawer that she hasn’t found).
5. Sat down at my desk and thought that she might get suspicious that all of the cups were empty, and start testing them to see if one was filled with something. (Maybe I was over paranoid.)
6. Had a powwow with my teammates about what I should hide in the other cups.
7. Print off a bunch of clean SFW jokes.
8. Cut the sheet of jokes into individual jokes.
9. Fold up the jokes and randomly place them under the cups.
10. Wait for boss lady to come back on Friday.

This worked GREAT! She was surprised and over analyzed it. She questioned “Why cups? Did I leave my cup somewhere?” Then she moved a cup and found a joke and laughed. Moved some more cups and found more jokes. Soon she was lifting the cups up like a mad woman, and BAM! The marbles crashed to the desk and floor. SUCCESS!

Man I love a good prank. Happy Friday!