Payback

Every now and then, a really, really good prank comes along. And my husband considers himself pretty good at pulling pranks. He can tell this story much better than I can, but I’ll do my best…

It was about five years ago, around Halloween time, and all the movie channels were playing scary movies. It was a dreary Friday and I was tired from the week, so I came home and took a nap in our room for about an hour (this is before we had children and lost the ability and time to nap). When I woke up I was watching some scary movie on TV and then got up in my still sleepy state to check my e-mail on the computer in the den.

Nathan, my loving, dear, husband asked me if I had checked out his “optical illusion” e-mail yet. After telling him no, he encouraged me to do so and stealthily turned the volume all the way up on our computer speakers and told me he was going downstairs to make dinner. “Yeah, ok, be down in a minute…”

So there I sit, staring intently at two ships on a river cutting through two mountains, leaning into the computer screen, trying to figure out what is the difference between them…Then…

WHAMO!!!!!

A demon face starts flashing in and out on the screen in the midst of blood curdling screams coming out of the speakers at their top volume!!!!!!!!

I scream, fall out of the chair trying to get away from the computer and as I turn to run out of the room there is my husband peering at me from the door frame in anticipation and when he saw how absolutely freaked I was, started to reach out for me which only made me cower to floor in tears.

It was a sight, he thought I was having a heart attack I was so scared, and I had never in my life been that terrified…

Now that it’s all over, he likes to make fun of me, sort of beat his chest on the great accomplishment that he made in getting me. So, it may take me time…but sooner or later, I do get my payback, and it came…today.

A friend of mine at work e-mailed me the clip I attached below. After it scared me, I lovingly sent it on to my husband. He called me later and I casually asked him if he’d seen it, he said no, I said I think it’s a big hoax personally, and then promptly muted the call so he couldn’t hear me giggling…

So he continues to talk to me as he watches, and then…

WHAMO!!!!

He screamed into the phone and I could hear him jump!!!

Did I mention that he was at work??

Ahhhh….sweet, sweet revenge…even he had to laugh that I had finally gotten him back…

I love you honey, thank you for being such a good sport!!