Friday, April 06, 2007

First of April

I haven't played any big pranks (April fool) on anyone for many years. This time it was different. My unsuspecting victim was my own uncle who works as an accountant in Dubai, has come home to India on vacation. He has an 18 year old daughter and a 12 year old son.

I haven't talked to him for some time and I was sure he wouldn't recognize my voice. I ring him up from my mobile phone.

Me: Hello?
Uncle: Hello.

Me: I want to talk to _daughters_name_
Uncle: Who are you?

Me: I am her boy friend.
Uncle: What!?

Me: Boy friend.
Uncle(visibly angry): I am her father.

Me: Nice to talk to you, can I speak to your daughter?
Uncle: Who are you?

Me: I am _fictitious_name_
Uncle: Where from?

Me: I am from _some_other_place_

Uncle: Where exactly?
Me: Take a left turn from the central junction

Uncle: There are many junctions, which one?
Uncle: What do you do?

Me: Why do you care, I need to speak to your daughter.
Uncle: This is not her house, this is _someone_elses_house

Me: Whose house?
Uncle: This is some_other_girls_house

Me: Can I talk to her?
Uncle: I have 5 daughters and I know how to deal with you.

Me: 5 daughters! What are their names?
Uncle(rude sounding): I have also come after your age, I know what the 'disease' is with you boys.I am a psychologist.

Me: Really? What medicine do you have?
Uncle: I have a caller ID installed. I will find you and get you.

Me: Try your best, we will see.
Uncle: Okay, I am done talking with you.

Me: Wait!
Uncle (pauses):

Me: I want to talk to your daughter

Uncle(bangs the phone) and terminates the call.

I call him up exactly two minutes later. He looks the number on his caller id.

Uncle: You again? What do you want.
Me: Uncle, this is Sarad.

Uncle: What, which Sarad.
Me: Your brother's son.

Uncle: It was you, you stupid ^&@#$#! (I deserved that).
Uncle: You scared the hell out of me. I had summon'ed my daughter and was questioning her. She was telling that if it was her boy friend, he would have called her on her mobile phone. Why call on the common phone?

We exchanged some pleasantries and hung up.

5 comments:

Chica, Cienna, and Cali said...

haha...poor uncle..i can imagine what a dad goes thro' when daughters are that age....my dad used to sound like an army general with any guy who'd dare to befriend his daughter...we had terrible spats some times......but then it's all a part and parcel of dad-daughter rel'ship...it wasn't fun then..but now i laugh whenever i think of the ways we used to devise to fool our dads then!!!

Jas B said...

LOL!
We used to play silly pranks on our teachers on April 1st...and then get into truoble after that.
Haven't tried any tricks since then! :)

Sarad said...

moi: haha, good way to keep pesky kids away from 'moi'...and yes poor uncle. Even worse, my uncle's daughter has vowed to take revenge for what I did :-)

jas: You should try small harmless pranks...at least on first of April.

AlterinG Abhishek said...

HAHAHAH!!
BAch Gaya Bachoo..
he had a caller id and ur uncle could have just called some "PEOPLE"
LOl
Good fun both of u must have had later!!
enjoy!!

Sarad said...

Abhishek: I haven't met him yet. I will be going home next week :-)