WHAT I DID DURING SUMMER VACATION PART II

This is the final installment of Pranks as a kid during summer. There was a purpose to our madness: we were bored! The neighbors on my street were so cool that looking back, they could probably fill a months worth of guest appearances on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien". One owned a Mobil gas station, another was a shortwave radio operator. One was a retired baseball player who hated kids, another was a drummer on a regional television show. We had a guy who looked liked a bearded John Lennon with shoulder length hair who played 8 musical instruments, wore wire rimmed glasses, played in bands, drove a VW bus (and drove women wild). Another was a County Judge whose own kids were juvenile delinquents. One man had a paper route and another a hardware store in a small town. But one neighbor was a retired Chemist with a bad heart who took frequent vacations in his Airstream trailer. While he was away one summer day, my best buddy Alan and I decided it would be funny to stage a mock bicycle collision on his front lawn. We flipped my bicycle upside down so we could spin the tires and lay on the lawn as if we were unconscious (that would be me on my back with my mouth open--and no laughing) as cars crept by slowly. Alan merely lay under his bicycle as if he were pinned under it. But truth be told, he was the scout. "Here comes another car", he'd say. Soon we had a parade of cars jamming the street. Knowing the police would be called, we decided it would be best to jump up and take bows for our performance. We learned some new cuss words from the less than happy stream of onlookers. Next, it was onto ringing doorbells and running away to hide behind bushes to see how many times we could push our luck before we were caught. It was also a lesson to gauge which neighbors had a sense of humor. Most did. Onto the last bit of mischief. My parents car was parked along the curb with the windows rolled down. I'd lay across the front seat while Alan scaled a 30 foot tree and called out when a car would approach. At the precise moment the car passed ours, I'd lay on the horn. Bewildered drivers would stop and back up to the car seeing no one in the driver's seat. I had to bite my arm to avoid busting out laughing. Finally, a lady we regarded as our version of "Mrs. Robinson" (from the movie, "The Graduate") showed up in her bra at the screen door and laughed hysterically telling us that it was the funniest thing she had ever seen. For us, it was the first time we had seen a woman in a bra! WOW! We quit after about half an hour. Oh, yeah. I almost forgot. Disclaimer: Do not try this at home. What pranks did you pull off as a kid?