😂 Jake I can relate to shenanigans like that with the fake mouse. Childhood was filled with silly jokes on my mom and family. We all participated. Actually it’s continued in life with my husband and daughter.
My favorite of all time was when my husband and I were first married. When I was younger, it was a fashion for little girls to have this ‘mink’ collars. They looked like white ermine with glass eyes and a little leather nose. It would wrap all the way around the neck and clasp the tail with a little pinch metal clothespin type thing where the mouth would be.
When I got married, of course all the boxes of my stuff were sent packing along with me! One day I found the weasel and thought I’d have a little fun with it. (This practical joke was in retribution for a joke my husband had earlier played on me once when I got up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night. While I was in the bathroom, he quickly laid on the floor next to the door in the dark hallway. When I came out, he grabbed my ankles!! Talk about screaming bloody murder!!). 😂

Anyway, back to the weasel story… I coiled it up in a pair of my husbands skivvies in his underwear drawer. Just the nose and eyes were showing. Oh, and I need to add that the stitching around the nose was white and looked a bit like teeth at first glance. It was a beautiful thing…a vermin hiding in his underwear! He always got up early and it would be dark when he’d grab his clothes and skivvies. He opened the drawer and there was just enough light coming through the window for the eyes to shine and the ‘teeth’ to show! He screamed like a little girl!! 😂 Of course that just escalated things over the years. Some of our jokes are epic…
Ohh one more!! So the weasel became a chronic joke in the house. My husband would hide it too, like in a cereal box.
One day before leaving for work, when I was hugging to say good bye, I clipped the weasel on the back of his waistband! He went to work with a weasel hanging off his pants for half of the day. 😂😂😂