A Penning Prank Played on Penning

June 29, 2009 • 3:45 pm • POSTED BY Gretchen

So not only is Stephen Penning (of the Believin’ Stephen fame) able to accurately predict babies’ births, but he also can be a bit of a prankster. SP has played many a prank on the Operations department, and we resolved that we had to get him back. But how? Sadly, it took us a while for inspiration and timing to all coincide – but last week they all fell into place.

SP announced that he and his wife are expecting their first baby (so now we will have to see how accurate he is on predicting his own child’s birth). With this announcement, we now had a theme for our prank – congratulations on the baby!

On Friday when SP was out of the office, two of us in the Ops dept put our gift wrapping skills to the test to entirely wrap SP’s office in Sesame Street gift wrapping paper. And it only took two hours! To top it off, we also bought a little (kind of scary actually) dollie for his chair.

 

I think the piece de resistance was gift wrapping the antlers on the bunny trophy mounted on his log cabin wall and sprucing the little feller up with a cute bow tie (why he has a bunny with antlers on his faux log wall is another long, Penning story). I have to give a shout-out to Liz Henry, an AE intern, for creating the bow tie!

Moral of this Story: Do not cross Operations or you just might get pranked!