Cell phones and other technology can be manipulated for surprising gags.
Gags or practical jokes can be a funny and intimate way for friends to interact. Initiating a gag by creating a surprising or embarrassing situation can result in a playful war between friends. Keep several simple, classic gags in your repertoire, and always be prepared for retaliation.
Food Gags
Switching salt and sugar or salt and pepper containers is a classic way of surprising your friend's taste buds, but there are many other potential food-related pranks. If your friend is drinking a soda, distract them from their drink and drop a few M&Ms into the cup or bottle, which will start to foam mysteriously, surprising your friend with their next sip. For another food gag, fill a cereal bowl with water and freeze it for a couple of hours. Then put milk and cereal over the ice and offer it to your friend for breakfast. Their spoon will meet with a confusing solid surface.
Time-Related Gags
Clocks and alarms are perfect tools for confusing and surprising your friends. Set one or more alarms for various times when you know your friend will be at home, and hide them throughout their living room or bedroom, creating a series of annoying surprises that your friend will struggle to deactivate. Resetting your friend's watch or car clock can also lead to funny situations, as your friend rushes to make an event only to find that it's far too early.
Quick Shocker Gags
Some of the most effective and memorable gags are those that shock a friend's senses with a major surprise. Classic examples include wrapping a layer of plastic wrap over the toilet seat and taping down the spray head on the sink to soak whoever turns on the faucet. Other possibilities include inserting a bouillon cube into the shower head to soak your victim in soup broth or sprinkling a bath towel with powdered food coloring to dye the victim who attempts to dry off.
High-Tech Gags
Tampering with your friends' electronic devices can alter their everyday routine with baffling and amusing situations. Switch several of the numbers in a friend's phone and see how long it takes them to make an unintended call. Take a screen shot of the desktop and then set this image file as the computer's background. Then hide the existing desktop icons in a folder so they no longer appear on the desktop. Your friend will try in vain to click icons that are simply an image. Finally, a simple layer of transparent tape on the bottom of your friends mouse will keep the device from functioning. See how long it takes for them to figure it out.
