One of the best shens I ever pulled was back in high school during computer programming class. We were using IBM PC jrs. (pieces of crap!)
I was sitting directly across from a girl in my class (cheerleader, probably) and our computers were facing away from each other. A few minutes into the class, she got up to leave the room and as soon as she left, an idea so brilliant and merciless came upon me I just couldn't resist trying it. I reached between our two computers and switched the inputs for the keyboards.
She came back and sat down and started typing and immediately got a distressed look on her face. She called the teacher over and explained that no matter what she typed, nothing would happen. The teacher, in all of her computer omnipotence, tried everything short of rebooting the computer. By this time I was hiding behind my monitor and quaking red-faced.
I started to type… ‘Leave me alone!’ They both jumped back, silenced. ‘What the…’ The teacher said.
I typed ‘I said leave me alone!’ The cheerleader got real upset, ‘I didn't do anything to it, I swear!’ It was all I could do to hold my water! The conversation between them and HAL 2000 went on for an amazing five minutes.
‘Don’t touch me!’ ‘I’m sorry, I didn’t *mean* to hit your keys that hard.’ ‘Who do you think you are anyway?!’ ‘My name's Melanie’ ‘That's a stupid name!’ … .etc … Finally, I couldn’t contain myself any longer and fell out of my chair and about peed myself. After they had realized what I had done, they both turned beet red!
Funny, I never got more than a C- in that class …and come to think of it, never got a date from any of the cheerleaders either! Life is great!
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