Sophomores defeat opponents with last-minute pranks

As soon as we heard the words “prank wars” in a newspaper story discussion, we jumped on the idea, imagining the demise of our competition as they ran into Saran Wrap that covered doorways and found themselves glued to their chairs. But never did we realize the amount of time and effort it takes to prank someone. Case in point, it took almost three hours to set up just two pranks. 

Our first prank was perfect. Right after the bell for tutorial had rung, we sprang out of our English class and rushed to the cafeteria, picking the closest table in the back corner to set up.
Laying out a plastic bag as a table cover, we began disassembling the Oreos and smearing a thick layer of mayonnaise on top of the white cream center as we donned oh-so-evil grins on our faces.

After preparing the “Oreos,” we carefully placed them all back into the Oreo container, heading back to the J-room. As we entered the room, we saw junior Anant Rajeev and asked him to help execute our plan.

A few minutes after class had started, we watched as Anant casually offered an Oreo to our targets, sophomores Amulya Vadlakonda and Caitlin Ju.

We were nervous, because the Oreos did look somewhat distorted and runny, so we came up with the excuse that they had melted in Anant’s car.

Fortunately, both took one Oreo from the container. But Caitlin happened to pick from the ones in left side of the container, which were not filled with mayonnaise, since that column was closest to her. Amulya picked one from the group of mayonnaise-filled Oreos and took a bite.

We couldn’t help but break out laughing as Amulya’s face slowly scrunched up.

“WHAT IS THIS FLAVOR!” screamed Amulya. One team down, one more to go.

For the next prank, Maya asked sophomore Trevor Leung for his sister Michelle Leung’s number; she was our next target.
But as a prank on Maya, he gave her all of his friends’ numbers along with Michelle’s. Not knowing which one was really

Michelle’s number, Maya then sent an anonymous text to all of the numbers with a picture of Leonardo DiCaprio and said, “To stop receiving the Daily DiCaprio, reply with STOP.”

Luckily, Michelle fell for this prank and replied “STOP,” but she soon turned the joke on Maya as she logged onto Trevor’s Facebook account and told Maya that Mr. Robinson’s number was among one of the numbers Maya had contacted. Although our plan worked, we ended up making fools of ourselves since we both freaked out, thinking that the principal had received our text and worrying about what to tell him.

Unfortunately, when  Maya tried to pull the same prank on Caitlin, it didn’t work out as well, because Caitlin had Maya’s phone number. Oops.

Overall, our pranks were not executed as well as the other teams’, but ours were rather intricate and incited many hilarious reactions from our competitors. We’re happy to say that even though prank week is over, we still have a few tricks up our sleeves.