Speaker Swap

I remember my very first office job, at an IT upstart. It was a casual atmosphere, and probably where my love for all things prank related was born.

I was the baby—fresh out of college, the only woman on the team, and by far the youngest person in the department. The guys took me under their wing, and really taught me a lot. (Some of them are still my closest friends!) They also took advantage of the situation by playing more pranks, tricks, and practical jokes on me than should ever be allowed!

The ringleader was Todd, an MIT graduate with a love for all things computer related. (Not to mention a passion for pulling pranks)

The way the IT room was set up, all of us techies were in the same general area. It really resembles a classroom, with sets of desks pushed up next to each other to form a group of 4. Todd happened to be part of my little square, and he certainly used that to his advantage. Like the time he rigged my desk chair to sink all the way down to the floor every time I sat in it.

Anyway, revenge was finally mine one day, when I got back from lunch before Todd, and proceeded to pull a little speaker swap on him. I disconnected one of his computer’s speakers, and replaced it with one of the one’s from my desk—the one without volume control, of course.

Then, when he came back and fired up his PC, I put my plan into action. When he began playing music on his computer (as he always did when he was working) I found a Youtube video that involved some cats meowing… and set my volume at low.

Todd spent the rest of the afternoon going crazy, trying to figure out where the faint meowing was coming from!