Okay, so E calls me this morning and tells me that she's looking out her front door at about a dozen plastic flamingos. I ask her what the hell she's talking about and she says during the night someone dropped a dozen plastic flamingos on her front yard along with a note that said they'd been put there by a church youth group preparing to go on a mission trip - and if she wanted them cleaned up, she would have to make a donation. She was furious. I was kind of furious too. Littering and extortion are not good fundraising tools in my opinion. I offered to call the church and give somebody hell. The note had the numbers for two high school students on it. Perfect. The only thing I like better than yelling at dense ministers is yelling at high school kids. So I call one of the kids and begin to lay into them. Here's how it went:

Me: Who is this?
Her: Ummmm...
Me: Listen, there are a bunch of pink flamingos on my lawn and I want them gone by this afternoon.
Her: Okay.
Me: This is a totally unacceptable way to raise money. You don't extort money out of people you don't know. What kind of image does that give your church? Who's in charge of this program.
Her: Ummm... Is this the millers' household?
Me: No. It's the (last name deleted) household
Her: We... Uh... we were trying to get the millers' household. We... we did the wrong yard.
Me: Oh.
Her: Yeah.
Me: Wow... okay. Sorry about that. So, I guess you know the millers', huh.
Her: Yeah.
Me: Well... that's different... if you're... you know, doing this to people that you know.
Her: Yeah. Sorry.
Me: No... that's okay. Just... uh, just... you know... okay. Um, just move the birds. Okay?
Her: Okay.
Me: Bye.
Her: Bye

So... Yeah. That's pretty much how that went down.


dude, i want the flamingos! that is a great prank. if it was me i would have found out what church it was then gone and put them in front of the church all in dirty flamingo poses and left a note that said.. whoever spent the money on pink flamingos is obviously not the one who needs my money to spend... beat it.
also, i know it's cold and all and i don't mean this to hate on E or anything, but flamingos are an easy clean up, it's not like toilet paper. just grab them and put them in the garage, when the kids come back for them, tell'em that it will be 20 bucks.  


I don't think the point was that she couldn't pick them up, it was the principle that she shouldn't have to, you know?

That being said, I think your idea of planting the flamingos with a note about spending money on flamingos is genius. Why can't I think all clearly like you?  


HEE HEE...BOTH OF IDEAS TA2 HAD WERE FUNNY AS #&^%! I ESPECIALLY LIKE THE ONE ABOUT PUTTING THEM IN THE GARAGE AND CHARGING THE KIDS TO GET THEM BACK...NOW THAT IS COMEDY!  


hahaha. Awesome.  


I just tried that with the voices you suggested. It works.  


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