I shall never live it down...(total and complete embarrasement)

[remyandhollandsmommy]

Yeah, I guess I am really gullible as was proven this weekend. I was sitting in my living room, reading a book minding my own business when the phone rang. It was my best friend's DH, who is a SSgt and works with my DH. Here is our conversation (he is blue and I am in pink):
"Where's your husband?" (him sounding breathless)

"He went to the store, he should be back in ten minutes. You want me to have him call you?"

"Umm, yeah. Tell him to hurry 'cause we have to get to base ASAP."

"Is everything ok? What's going on?"

"You aren't watching the news???!!"

"No, Jerry has VH1 on."

"Well, turn it on! We just got bombed by China!"

"WHAT?!!!" (this is where I am frantically looking for remote to change to CNN)

"Yeah, they hit Alaska with (insert bomb names that sounded REAL)!"

"(insert naughty words) Are you serious?!" (still trying to find that remote).

"YES, I AM SERIOUS!!" (he was yelling)

"(naughty word), he just got back! I swear if he has to deploy agian before C'mas I am gonna..." (Sorry, but I was being a little selfish and this is when I notice the odd snorting sounds)

(hysterical laughing)

"You are such a (naughty words) and if you tell anyone at the shop, I will (insert death threats and torture)!" (face burning with humiliation for falling for this)

"China?! You actually thought China would be bombing ALASKA?!"

"I hate you!" (me hanging up)


In my defense, no one thought 9/11 would happen and his job (the same as DH's) deals with bombs so they know alot of technical terms and names of bombs so it did sound real and he just sounded sooo serious...Ok, maybe I should have realized that if we really were being bombed then maybe VH1 would be reporting it, but well...I didn't. I will also admit I did check CNN after I hung up just to be sure...

Oh and he told EVERYONE at DH's work so I have been getting calls all day teasing me!

 

[Brandon79]

ah, sorry

 

[POOH&PIGLET]

 

[SeaSpray]

I don't think that's funny at all. If someone in the military called my house and started talking (yelling, as you said) about the US being bombed, I probably would believe him and not really notice the exact details at that moment..... I don't think this makes you gullible. But I bet you never believe another thing that idiot tells you again. lol

 

[NMAmy]

If I were you, I'd be really ticked--not embarassed. That was an awful thing to do to a person.

 

[greenban]

I think it is a good thing you have a great sense of humor!

 

[lovemygoofy]

Sounds like your Dh and his friends have the same sense of humor as my Dh and his friends. The weekend that my Dh was due home from Iraq, he called me from Kuwait and then from Ireland. I knew he had another stop in Greenland and figured I would receive another call so I could keep everyone else on track for the landing. I received a call from my Dh's CO saying in a very serious voice that they had left my Dh in Ireland because they didn't realize he had gotten off the plane. Mercy, I was HOT! I started yelling they they better turn the *bleeping* plane around and go get him or they better not land at the *bleeping* airfield. By this time I hear tons of people laughing in the background and knew that they had gotten me. My Dh thinks it's great to play fun on me. Imagine waking up on your birthday to hear a whole company outside your window doing cadence about you.

Gotta love the military,
Tina

 

[CookieGVB]

Now you have to plot your revenge... Hmmm....

 

[laurajetter]

Ooooooooh, that was mean!

I know I would've reacted the same way. In that moment of panic/fear/surprise there isn't time to analyze the exact details of what you are being told, I think it would be perfectly natural to believe it.

Have you ever seen the SciFi Network show called "Scare Tactics"? It's a candid camera style show where they think up really horrible ways of scaring the victim. Many times the situations seem so unbelievable to the viewer (bigfoot, vampires, aliens, mutated creatures, etc.) and you think, "C'mon, who would believe THAT? You've got to be kidding me!" But the other actors make the situate seem so real that in the victim's mind there is no reason why it wouldn't be real, and it's not like they have time to sit down and logically think it out to see if it makes sense.

So don't feel bad, I hate it when people do stuff like that to me, UGGGHHHH... Just ignore the taunts, eventually they'll stop!

-Laura

 

[jeleebeene]

You'll look back one day and laugh

 

[MUFFYCAT]

Yes, revenge is sweet.

 

[Rajah]

Originally posted by NMAmy
If I were you, I'd be really ticked--not embarassed. That was an awful thing to do to a person.

I totally agree.

 

[Keli]

I know that really was a mean and onery trick to play on you and I understand the posters that are saying that but I couldn't help but laugh the whole time I was reading your post. Dispite the meaness it really did strike me as funny. And it sounds just like something one of my brothers would do to me!

 

[WeirdEyes]

Don't feel bad. I would've fallen for it hook, line, and sinker! Anything is possible now.

You gotta admit though, it was a brilliant "gotcha!"

 

[lapinluv]

Hee. That was funny. Mean trick, sure, but no one got hurt and you seem to be taking it in stride. You just have to plot your revenge and have 70,000 of your closest friends here to help you. (Need a twiling mustache smilie here).

BTW, what did your DH say?

 

[Lorij]

My DH called me one day and wanted to know if we could be packed up in three days since he was being transferred to Germany..... Had me really going for awhile, but I got him back! A few years later I called him at work on April 1st and told him I was having the baby..... Turns out it was real, not a trick and he set a new land speed record to the hospital.....

 

[aimee11621]

I would have fallen for it too.



Figure out some good gotcha plan. Ask for tips on the dis I'm sure there are lots of good ideas for practical jokes.!!!!!

 

[remyandhollandsmommy]

Originally posted by lapinluv
Hee. That was funny. Mean trick, sure, but no one got hurt and you seem to be taking it in stride. You just have to plot your revenge and have 70,000 of your closest friends here to help you. (Need a twiling mustache smilie here).

BTW, what did your DH say?

My DH?! Oh, you mean that man who was snickering at me on Sunday and called my house today to leave a message on the machine about him deploying to Alaska to fight the Chinese! That DH?!

Yeah, I am desperately trying to think of a way to avenge myself and save face LOL. AHHH..the joys of being a military wife!

 

[doxdogy]

Most definitely must plot your revenge. I am sure someone can come up with something really good for you to do to the both of them.