My First Prank

 I have successfully accomplished my first prank. Our student pastor loves real mail which is adorable because he is so young. He also likes Spiderman and puzzles...I decided to take these three loves and merge them into one after his wife told me about his delight of checking the mailbox every single day and how he waved the birthday card I sent her over his head in excitement over real mail.

Every week for three months I would send a card stamped with one letter spelling out "Happy Birthday" and 3-5 puzzle pieces attached. I used different church campuses for the return address and I printed because my handwriting is very distinctive. 

Over the months, I would hear his theories on who it was and cringe in horror as my printing was compared to a "Middle School Boy's writing" or "Someone using their left hand." (Praying my face wouldn't give away my embarrassment. And nope! It was my right hand and that is my true printing, now you know why I write in cursive). 

While I was in Poland, I incorporated an accomplice, let's call her, "Kati Bond." She mailed the cards while I was gone. I think my proudest moment of the prank is when I left the cards to be mailed disguised as a gift on the desk next to his for her to pickup to mail for me. NOT. A. CLUE did the young man have that the key to the BIG puzzle was right under his nose. 

It also helped he had no idea that all the mail here in our city goes to Birmingham for stamp cancellation before coming back and being delivered here in our little city. He was convinced the person lived in Birmingham and had an accomplice that lives here. 

On his birthday weekend, Kati Bond, dropped off the remaining puzzle pieces on his desk in front of all the students. (I was home recuperating from a minor procedure so the timing was perfect to not get caught). The plan was to reveal on his birthday who it was but one of the associate pastors found out I was behind it from his wife and convinced me to keep it going until the Youth Conference for the Big Reveal...so more letters with letters punched out for him spelling out "Motion Conference," "Who is it?" and "Revelation." The man was using Chat GBT or whatever that is called and getting a list of indecipherable names...awesome. 😎 

The Conference came, I brought the Shutterfly puzzle I had made with his picture and a message that read, "Guilty! Savage Susan." The Associate Pastor snuck it into his room while we were all at the Arena. (Now I have two partners in crime and this could be useful later in life). 

The Perfect Prank? Accomplished (and I thank the students who did not out Kati Bond as the culprit dropping off the puzzle), I will be honest, I was sure one of them would. 

And now, I am now going to go practice my printing as diligently as I practiced my handwriting as the middle school girl who wanted her cursive to be as pretty as her cousins.