By Ally Lenguyen and Elaine Vo, Staff Writers
In light of the season of tricks, teachers and students here at Fountain Valley High School reminisce about some of their best pranks.
“One of the most amusing pranks was when we saran wrapped someone who was sleeping to their bed. Since you can’t see the saran wrap when you wake up, you think you can’t move. And though it used up a lot of saran wrap, it was a pretty funny joke…we used to do it to people a lot. After a while they’d get out, but first they’d freak out for a bit. And it was pretty funny. I told it to my summer school kids one year and they thought it was pretty funny…so they did it to their parents. And I got some angry phone calls from parents.”
Todd Yarnton, Spanish teacher
“There’s some pranks that I can’t talk about. But one that I can talk about is when I was at Mayfair high school. We had a lot of young teachers there and I was new to teaching. My principal liked to hang out with us teachers, buy us drinks and stuff, and was overall a pretty good sport. But she had this one student who was really kind of a bad student, not bad as academic, but bad behavior. She kind of was like his mom, a little bit, and would always look out for him. So one day, one of us got ahold of her car keys. So we went and we got her car, and we drove her car to another part of the campus where she wouldn’t see it at all, and we broke some glass, and we left the glass on the ground right where her car was. Then we had somebody call the office and say that they were the Lakewood Police Department, and we told her that this kid named John (student’s name was John), was driving a car, we think it was stolen because it has a broken window, and we described her car and the license number we had, and he’s saying that you would be able to pick him up from the police department. And then we hung up the phone and we were all kind of waiting outside her office and then we all went in and laughed and she was mad, but she was cool after a while.”
David Theriault, language arts teacher
Photo by Ally Lenguyen
“So me and my friends had these Oreos, and we got these Oreos and we switched out the Oreo cream with toothpaste and gave it to another friend of ours to eat. And he ate it. And it was great.”
Samantha Fong (’17)
“One time I switched out all of my dad’s shampoo with hair remover and it actually took out some of his hair. It was pretty funny.”
Evelyn Shannen (’17).
