Senior Pranks

            It’s getting to be the end of the school year, and we’re all waiting, wondering what this year’s crop of seniors will come up with as their final hurrah. Will they be a year that goes down in school history, or will they be just another nameless year forgotten?

            There have been many senior pranks that are remembered at our school, but they are all quite infamous. None of them have ever been great, just failures of great proportion. Last year the seniors put forth one of the lamest efforts that I have ever heard of. Their “prank” was to play some ear splitting music for a brief five seconds over the intercom, then drop bouncy balls over the ledge in our commons area. Um, what was the point of that? Besides a few sophomores getting mad that they got beaned in the head, it was quite a disappointment.

            However, because everything must have an opposite in our universe, to balance out the underachieving seniors from last year, we also had the people who went way overboard. Some seniors a few years ago forced a cow to walk upstairs, and, of course, it couldn’t come back downstairs. The administration had to shoot it. Maybe that’s why our older siblings said the mystery meat at the cafeteria tasted like beef for a few weeks?

The Princess and I have always had dreams that our senior prank will be the best one the school has ever seen. Unfortunately, our year won’t come till next, but in the mean time, we can still plan out our epic senior prank. We will become Prank Sinatra’s.

Let’s just hope we’re not like the kids that got caught red-handed. I’d like to give a shout out to them for finding out that the school has an alarm system that activates at 9:30 pm. You took a bullet for the rest of us. Bravo.

Here’s some of our ideas. They’re a little small scale, because we’d like to keep it legal. Even though Graduation is about four hours long, hot, and the room smells like sweat and the realization that we all don’t know what the heck we’re going to do with our lives and now have to pay for college, it’s still a rite of passage. We want to walk with our class, and besides, I’m allergic to illegal pranks, I break out in handcuffs.

Foam the Field: The beauty in this prank is the simplicity. It’s cost effective for high school kids, yet is still immensely awesome. All you do is spread dishwasher detergent all over the field and turn on the sprinklers. Then, let the foam begin. Plus, can you say best celebration ever? Bring beach balls, music, and food. You’ve got yourselves a prank and party in one.

Senior Moment: It’s really criminal to not do this if you know a lot of elderly people or are the grandchild of hundreds. (I don’t know what kind of polygamy is going on in your family if you have hundreds of grandparents, but we’re not here to judge. If you’ve got old connections, use them.) In order to make this come to pass you’d need at least fifty senior citizens.  Get all the senior’s grandparents together for a great hoax. Have them show up to classes when all the seniors ditch. Senior day now has a whole new meaning in everyone’s mind.

Mariachi Monday: The plan is to hire a mariachi band as stalkers for a day. Get them to follow around an administrator. This just sounds awesome. However, it only works if your principal ever shows his face out of his office lair. Ours occasionally walks around the school, but we’re still not really sure he exists. We might change this out to one of our teachers. If you have the goal of bugging the living crap out of someone: check.

These are our top three right now. They’re fun, fairly easy, and quite hilarious. Who knows, maybe this year’s batch of seniors will flake out and be the year that just does a subpar flash mob or reorganizes a classroom or two. Maybe they’ll be the insane kids that set fire to the gym. Either way, we’ll be sure to tell you what went down, and next year when The Morning Meal Club pulls off the best senior prank ever, you guys will be the first to hear.

~The Basket Case