Chris Cutler, Stow Road

"My father pulled one on us when we were young. He put a trash can at the bottom of the stairs and lit a fire inside of it and yelled up to all of us ‘FIRE!'"

Lisa Daigle, Still River Road

"Someone who works with me is a huge Red Sox fan. We were having a presentation with about 40 people coming. There was a slide show set up behind him and as he began his presentation, we switched the first picture to the Yankees homepage. It came up behind him as he was talking and he had no idea why everyone was laughing until he turned around. The best part was that he was actually talking about the Red Sox when it came up."

Jim Vurgaropulous, Tyngsboro,
working in Harvard for the day

"I’ve got all kinds of people mad at me. I like to do stuff like tell people to meet at a certain place and then I don’t show up. Another favorite is sticking people with the check at the restaurant. You get up and go to the bathroom and when you come back, everyone is gone.”

Sue Robbins, Massachusetts Avenue

"When our son was in college, we borrowed a ‘for sale’ sign from a realtor and put it at the end of our driveway to surprise him when he came home one weekend. He stayed very cool in front of the girls who had given him a ride home, but as soon as they left, he expressed amazement that we could make such a big decision without telling him."

 
Justin Miller, Littleton County Road

"When I was going to college at St. Michael’s in Vermont, some lady friends came into our room and stole our favorite chair. So we retaliated by shoveling about 8 feet of snow in front of their door. The next morning when they got up to go to class, they had to shovel their way out."

Amy Brown, Whitney Road

"When I was younger, my brother was asleep and I took my mother’s address stamp and stamped his entire face with it. I just waited outside his door for his reaction when he woke up and realized what I did. He screamed."