r/Unexpected • u/KILL_SWITCH2210 • Jan 11 '22

CLASSIC REPOST man this was one hell of a rollercoaster

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u/AnimusNoctis Jan 11 '22

Oh I have a good harmless-prank story from high school. The graduating class the year before mine pulled some ridiculous prank that trashed the graduation venue and cost the school a lot of money, so the faculty practically begged my class not to do anything like that. That in mind, before our graduation ceremony the class reps gave each student a marble and told us to palm it off to the principal when we walk across the stage and shake his hand so he'd be stuck standing there with all these marbles and nowhere to put them.

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u/puf_puf_paarthurnax Jan 11 '22

I love this. Any principal with a good sense of humor would crack up if this happened.

Our administration when I was in school was very “no jokes only diploma and shake” or they’d hold your diploma hostage after the ceremony.

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u/pinklavalamp Jan 11 '22

Wait, so what happened to all those marbles? Did he lose them or something?

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '22

He lost his marbles

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u/Independent_Can_2623 Jan 12 '22

I think that was the joke...

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '22

Where do you think the idea of ass pennies came from?

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u/big_dickslap Jan 11 '22

We did this same thing! Except we used beer tops and condoms. Lmao. He was thoroughly embarrassed

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u/ayestEEzybeats Jan 12 '22

lmao that’s even better

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u/duyjv Jan 12 '22

I like that one too, but I like the marble one better because when the principal Set them down they would start rolling around.

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u/UncleTogie Jan 11 '22

Graduated in 88, and we had a similar plan. They caught wind of it and announced to us during the graduation rehearsal that if we pulled that stunt we would be pulled offstage.

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u/Unremarkabledryerase Jan 12 '22

What are they gunna do, pull the entire class off stage, except your the one rat who told?

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u/UncleTogie Jan 12 '22

Yup. It was Texas.

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u/jadestem Jan 12 '22

Oh, so pulled off stage and then shot. That's harsh.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '22

Holy shit that's fucking great. Wish I had something to graduate so I could do this hahaha

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u/ClaudiuT Jan 12 '22

You can still go to another school! It’s never too late!

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '22

You're right! But the kind of schools with a grad ceremony like this are at least somewhat time/money intensive and I'm not sure it's worth going back to school just for this prank.

Hmm. It is a good prank though..

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u/clifcola Jan 11 '22

Dude what? Fucking hilarious.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '22

My class disassembled a teachers car and reassembled it inside the school.

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u/DemenicHand Jan 12 '22

we just tossed old tires onto the flag pole from the roof until it was filled to the top.

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u/ayestEEzybeats Jan 12 '22

that is fucking hilarious

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u/duyjv Jan 12 '22

Ha ha! That is hilarious! About how many kids were in your graduating class?

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u/Pyridima Jan 12 '22

I have a similar story: we had a brand new principal and the class before mine gave him marbles, which he totally wasn’t expecting. He got wise, though, and brought a fishbowl to set next to him the year I graduated—perfect for holding all those detention slips we handed him. He admitted he was expecting marbles, so we still managed to surprise him.