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Date Posted: Wed, Sep 14 2016, 12:45pm
Engagement Prank
This is an unfortunate story that happened to me, though I do have to give my friends credit for creativity.
Last year, I served as president of my local Jaycee chapter. Late in the year, I got engaged. The following weekend, I went to the State Jaycee Year End Convention. At the /Saturday night party during convention, it is fairly common for the Jaycees to embarrass someone who is having a significant birthday or who has recently experienced some type of significant event. So it occurred to me that they might have something planned for me. I’m really kind of shy and would not enjoy being publicly humiliated, so I was really nervous the whole time. At the end of the party, however, I was relieved and pleasantly surprised that nothing had happened. I quickly found, however, that my sense of relief was premature.
I went up to my hotel room and got ready for bed. While I was in the bathroom brushing my teeth, the guy I was sharing a room with quietly let several “friends” in. As I opened the door to leave the bathroom, they grabbed me. I was just wearing a t-shirt and a pair of boxers. They took my t-shirt off and handcuffed me with my hands behind my back. They sat me in the hotel room desk chair and ran a chain through the handcuffs and around the back of the chair locking me to it. They used duct tape to secure my legs to front legs of the chair, leaving me very exposed.
They took pictures and sent them to one of the miscreant’s e-mail account. He started up his laptop and retrieved the pictures. He then turned the computer over to another friend who had previously worked with my fiancé and was Facebook friends with her. My trepidation increased as he went to her Facebook page.
So I told myself, OK, they’re going to send her naked pictures of me. That’s bad, but not catastrophic.
Things quickly got worse, however. I noticed they were reviewing her Facebook posts to identify close friends. In a real unfortunate coincidence, she had posted a picture from earlier in the day with four of her closest friends whom she had gone to lunch with to celebrate her engagement. They now had e-mail information for them.
The laptop owner went back to his e-mail account. I watched in horror as he typed in e-mail addresses for her friends but not for her. They explained that it would be funnier for her to discover the prank from someone else and that they didn’t want her to be able to warn her friends to not open the e-mail message. Someone said “we have to do this. After all, what bride-to-be wouldn’t want her closest friends to see her future husband naked and humiliated?” They pulled up the pictures they had taken, identified the one they liked the best, and attached it to the message. They explained that the beauty of this prank was that I was not only embarrassed for one evening, but while I was standing up there during the formal church wedding in my fancy tux, I would know that all of the bridesmaids would be picturing me naked and humiliated. They added that it was a near certainty that during the wedding and reception, all of the guests would have learned about the prank and would be snickering about it under their breath.
He finally entered all the e-mail addresses, attached the picture, and wrote a short message. He asked “all those in favoring of hitting send, say aye.” Everyone said aye. “All those opposed say nay.” I was the only nay. He announced “the ayes have it” and pushed the button. I immediately turned an incredible shade of bright red. Someone asked if my fiancé’s friends had their e-mails synched to their phones. I responded that I didn’t know. They told me that they were going to have to leave me handcuffed to the chair for an hour to make sure I didn’t give my fiancé a warning. So, they had a little impromptu after party, with people coming in and out of the room, and with me sitting there completely exposed. It struck me as surreal how several women came up to talk to me in a very casual and normal manner, without indicating any particular notice that I was naked. Others were having fun at how completely discombobulated I was over my situation.
After about 20 minutes, my cell phone rang and it was my fiancé. A friend slid the answer button and held it up to me so I could talk. She had a clearly mortified tone in her voice as she told me about the e-mail two of her friends had received. I explained that it wasn’t my idea and told her that the two other friends had also received pictures. After the phone call, the group let me free and the party closed down.
The wedding was held on the weekend before last, and the prediction about it came true. If there was anyone in the church who was unaware of the prank, they must have wondered why I was bright red with embarrassment the whole time and why the bridesmaids and I kept struggling to keep from laughing. The thoughts of who was picturing me naked and who was chuckling about the incident were also on my mind throughout the reception.
It has been 10 months now, and I still get red and embarrassed every time I come in contact with one of the girls who received the picture. The first time I saw one of the friends was the roughest. She also was embarrassed and red. She did her best, but after several seconds, she burst out laughing. She felt awful and apologized profusely as I became increasingly embarrassed. Of the four, she’s the one I know the best. Around about the sixth time I saw her after that, I went ahead and asked the question “so, does an image of me naked and secured to a chair pop into your head every time you see me.” She had too much of a nervous laugh to answer, so she just nodded yes. I assume that’s the case with the other women as well. I wonder if, when we’re all in our eighties, they will still be picturing me like that.
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