So I’ve never tried to prank anyone before.

Well, until yesterday.

Lauren and I were out at lunch yesterday and joking around about what it would be like if Caroline had an invisible roommate. This followed a conversation about having invisible friends when we were little and stuff.

Lauren and I talked about what her name would be and what her majors should be. Then somehow along the way home we formulated this plan. We took the sheet that Lauren had gotten about her roommate assignment and used it as a basis for recreating a fake roommate assignment sheet. Here’s what we ended up with.

We each threw in random information (some of our own) and numbers for the address and things. I found a logo online and made the border to go along with it because I thought it made it look more official. We changed Dennis Stack’s middle initial to avoid getting in trouble if this was ever found or something and we didn’t sign it. We also didn’t mail it because we thought that would be going too far and since her reaction was unpredictable we didn’t think it would have been good to have her find it in a place where we couldn’t control it.

And so we opted instead to slip it under her door. We knew it would be a little too suspicious to just slip it under her door so I emailed our RA, Kait Berger. I asked Kait if it would be okay for us to forge a note and sign it with her name saying, “This was given to me to pass on to you”. Then it wouldn’t seem out of place for it to be there. So anyway, we finished the letter and planted it under her door. Erik B. was over and Lauren came into the room right as everything was happening.

We didn’t expect her reaction completely. It had crossed my mind that she would be somewhat upset. She didn’t like, outright bawl or anything but she was ticked and frustrated and disappointed. xD I felt so bad at first. We let it go for a little while though because it’s not a prank if you don’t let it sink in. Originally we were going to staple another sheet of paper to the first one with a sticker of a cow on it but she would have understood that immediately and it wouldn’t have been as effective. Erik convinced me not to do it so we didn’t.

She was disappointed that her roomate was going to be an indoor rec major. She said she hoped she wouldn’t be a jock. xD I knew that was one of her fears about getting a roommate and so I made sure to put that as one of the two majors.

In the end, we all gave Caroline hugs and she laugh/cried and said she hated us but that it was the best prank she had ever seen and that it was so believable that she didn’t feel stupid or gullible for believing it. She hung the letter up on the wall and said it was awesome and that we were all smart for thinking up these things. I’m just proud of myself for putting the actual sheet together. =) It does look official, doesn’t it?

So anyway, she doesn’t hate us and all is good. She’s just glad Natalie Pitts won’t be paying her a visit any time soon.