Mirror imagery
My old colleague Andy, whom I've mentioned already, went to university in Leicester. He told me of a good prank played in halls of residence.

Now, halls being what they are, tend to be designed such that two rooms next to each other are laid out as mirror images. So when one bloke was out getting pissed one night, Andy and his mates, with the consent and assistance of the bloke in the adjoining room, swapped the entire contents of the two rooms around. Posters, furniture, the lot.

They then swapped the doors (just how I'm not sure as some joinery may have been required to make them fit, but no matter).

So when pissed chap arrives back, he puts his key in his lock. It doesn't turn. He goes off the find the caretaker, who comes up with him, opens the door with the correct number, because the doors were swapped, and lets the bloke in.

To 'his' room. Only it was completely arse-for-tit compared to what he remembered. All of his posters and belongings were where they were meant to be, but on the opposite wall.

As you may imagine, this caused him some distress and confusion after a pint or ten!
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 14 Dec 2007, 11:59, 7 replies)

Hmm
The amount of joinery involved in this task in the alloted time leads me to doubt the validity of your claim.
(mark schmark, Fri 14 Dec 2007, 13:29, closed)

Yes
I wondered about that too. It's a while since I heard the story. Maybe they just swapped the locks and room numbers or something.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 14 Dec 2007, 13:37, closed)

I think
it was the University of Leicester. This was a good while back - the early '80s when DMU was still Leicester Poly or something.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 14 Dec 2007, 15:10, closed)

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I get to see a lot of floorplans for apartment blocks in my work, those that are mirrored room layouts don't all have mirrored doors. I've always wondered why, but hey ho. Any b3tard architects out there?
(misanthrope is so adjective he's verbing nouns!, Fri 14 Dec 2007, 15:58, closed)

I went to Leicester
It's possible, but depends which hall he was in
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 14 Dec 2007, 23:52, closed)

Jeez
What joinery????
All you do is remove the screws on the hinges ffs.
(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Thu 20 Dec 2007, 11:15, closed)