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GONNA GETCH YA FOR THAT
The Rain Gauge Prank
Fun with the neighbor
“Looks like we had two inches of rain last night.”
That was my neighbor Bob checking the rain gauge he had put in the garden in front of his camper. I was sitting on the deck of our camper; I smiled and said “Sure looks like a nice day today, though.” He agreed.
Bob checked that rain gauge every morning. What he didn’t know was that I also checked it early in the morning while he was still sleeping and would quietly add a half inch or so to it, whether it had rained or not.
At campgrounds, campers are close together. I could have easily jumped from my deck to his, so casually strolling over to mess with his gauge was easy, especially at sunrise when few other people were up and about.
Sometimes Bob was quite surprised by how much it had supposedly rained, but I refrained from adding a truly suspicious amount. I added enough to be plausible, at least at first. But then I started adding more.
It’s really not logical to wake up to find your deck and flowers quite dry but the rain gauge showing an inch and a half of rain. Bob would sometimes seem puzzled as he’d call across to me with last night’s total. I’d smile.
