Somewhere right now, there’s a man shaking his head, wondering what the heck just happened. It’s that thought that makes this prank such a good one.

A couple of days ago I posted about remembering my mission to prank. Earlier today I wrote about a hybrid incident of anger and laughter.

Coincidentally, this one happened less than thirty feet away from the last one. Or is it fewer? Who cares.

I had a book under the front seat of my car since two days ago. I didn’t know when the opportunity would present itself for me to pull a fun prank on someone. By the way, the book was a good one, given to me by a friend.

There were two people standing at the Razorback bus stop on Appleby. I retrieved the book from under the seat, got out of the car, and looped around across the street. Luckily, both the man and the woman were still waiting when I appeared on the opposite side of the street. I pretended to be lost in thought, when in fact I was using my peripheral vision to determine when there might be no traffic coming at either direction.

With my book in hand, I waved enthusiastically across to the two people.

“Hey John,” I shouted. The man looked up at me as I darted across the street with the book held up. It’s important that you know that I don’t know this man and unless I accidentally guessed correctly, his name is definitely not John.

I lowered the book as I drew close to him, still trotting.

“Janice told me I would find you here. She wanted me to give you this book, the one you wanted to read.”

The man looked at me in surprise but he did hold his hand out instinctively when I tried to hand him the book. He took it from my hand.

Without looking at him again, I took off running through the bushes and then through the parking lot and out of sight.

I wish I could have witnessed how he reacted and what he told the woman he was with. Assuming she asked. They weren’t ‘together.’ They were just standing at the same bus stop.

He is no doubt wondering who John is, and maybe why Janice somehow knew that John would be at the bus stop. I hope he appreciates the fact that I added a little surprise and confused magic to his otherwise boring wait at the bus stop.

If he reads the book, it is a quick read and quite enjoyable. There’s my book review, if you needed an excuse to read this post.

“TIME TO PRANK. REMEMBER YOUR MISSION.”

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