Gig dates
A friend of mine at school was a big fan of a certain Irish rock band whose name ends with a question mark. One week he let it be known that he had joined their official fan club, but hadn't received anything back from them yet, so mischievous as I was, and also a dab hand with CorelDRAW, I skilfully reproduced their logo at the time (two question marks forming a heart), knocked up some headed notepaper and sent him a letter purportedly from the fan club. It said that the band would be playing a secret gig at the local civic hall, and as a new member of the fan club, there would be two tickets waiting for him at the door. Now a more cautious person might have called ahead to the venue to ensure that said gig would actually be taking place. Not our hero. Apparently his dad was a fan too and drove him the 20 or so miles to the venue, only to be told that there was no such gig that night. He was, as you can imagine, extremely pissed off.

I owned up some time later, and he's just added me as a friend on facebook, but I doubt he's ever forgiven me.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 14 Dec 2007, 21:08, Reply)