While Lindsey is away, the deers will play. And play they did! Jillian, Jessica and Meghan decided to play a prank of epic proportions on their fellow team members while they were crossing the state for a pitch in West Palm Beach.
For a little context, the Friday before Startup Weekend, Andy’s vintage Mercedes broke down in the office parking lot. This led to the car being left at the Nickel Communications office throughout the weekend and into the beginning of the week. Finally on Tuesday, Andy’s “car guy” came and replaced the battery and helped him to get home. However, having solved that problem, another one sprang to life. His electric windows no longer worked and without any air conditioning Andy called his car “A hot, metal death trap.” Come Wednesday evening, Lindsey and Andy packed up and headed to the east coast to pitch StreetWize, our smartphone app created at Startup Weekend Tampa Bay, to the city of Riviera Beach.
Feeling a little lonely on Thursday, the three girls decided to spice up the afternoon by pulling a simple prank, that quickly spiraled into a whopper freakout of momentous proportions. The original plan was to pull a fast one on Lindsey, however, they decided that it would be a lot easier to prank Andy, considering how hot the topic of his car was.
They started by Facebook messaging and texting Andy asking him if his car was fixed and if he took it to the other coast with him, and also asking if his “car guy” stopped by to pick up his car to fix the window problem. At first Andy was only a little upset questioning as to whether or not his car was still in the parking lot. The panic soon grew when Andy managed to talk to a completely calm Meghan, who led him to believe that his car really was gone, either stolen or towed.
To quell his fears and to end the prank, the girls took a wonderful photo with his car, holding a sign that said “JK” as in just kidding. To say that Lindsey and Andy were beyond fuming would be an understatement with Lindsey having fired us all via text and threatened to take away our “antlers.”
Needless to say, we are all still employed; I mean Lindsey’s not writing this blog and who fires interns! Now we are waiting for our payback, but as we see it, nothing like a good laugh to brighten the afternoon!
