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Tricks can be played wherever you are, home, work, school - but all before 12pm - after that none are allowed or the person playing the trick is the fool! Also make sure that you don't damage something or someone's possessions - remember it's meant to be fun!

Now, before you start playing tricks at work, think carefully, you don't want to lose your job! Only play tricks at work if they are not going to have a financial impact, if you know the person well and you get on well in the first place! We are not condoning this!

My mum used to play tricks on her boss when she worked as a receptionist at an opticians practice in a small town where we lived. She got on well with her new boss from the start.

Fake phone calls:
The first year he was there, as his car was in for a service and he caught bus to work, so she knew what time he would get to work. She waited at home to ring up just before she had to leave (we only lived a few minutes walk away).

My mum put on a cockney accent (bear in mind she normally has no trace of an accent).

Mum: "Ello is that the opishans? Ere do you do contact lenses?"

Optician: "Yes madam".

Mum: "Oh good, 'cuase I got a film addition next week, an' want to look like 'Lizabeth Taylor with big blue eyes - you do tinted lenses don't you?"

Optician (trying to keep a normal voice): "Oh yes".

Mum : "It's tomorrow, that's alright innit?"

Optician : "Well no madam, it takes a while to measure up and send away for them".

Mum (now speaking in a normal voice) " oh typical, I guess I'll just have to come in to work as normal then".

Optician: "Swine!"

This had particularly caught him off guard because he had tried to think of a trick to play as came on bus and so his guard was down.

The second year she went early, and as a decoy she hid a fake bat in the dark cupboard where he had to reach in and switch off alarm. Once he had relaxed from this, thinking that this was the joke, he went to make himself a cup of tea, where there was a realistic mouse hidden in the tea bag box. His colleagues later said this had made him jump back across the room.

The next year she left it so that worried all day that something would happen.

In year four she wasn't due at work on April Fools, so his guard was especially down.

Mum rang and spoke to the other receptionist and told her what was about to happen.

She then arrived, dressed up in white trouser suit, long blond wig (at the time she normally had a lose brown perm), dark glasses and boots, with different make-up.

The other receptionist went to the optician and said that there was a Mrs Folle in reception who had asked if the optician could see her to adjust her glasses.

He had her sitting in chair, and about to take her glasses off when he realised.

Optician: "You swine, it's you isn't it!"