Tricking Scary Sherry(Brenda Eckhart) Growing up as the youngest of four girls I sometimes had to be a little creative to get noticed by my older sisters. I found humor worked the best. At the age of 40 something I got quite good at pulling fun harmless pranks, especially on my oldest sister Cher, although long ago I nicknamed her Scary Sherry, Scary for short. Scary was good herself at pranking me but the last prank I did to her outdid any past ones from either one of us, I still can't believe she fell for it, but she did... I have a boxer dog and her name is Jessie, I love her to pieces. one day my son shows up with a 8 week old chihuahau and asks if I would keep him here for a couple of months till he moved into his own house. well, since Jessie took to him and treated him as her own personal puppy, I said, sure why not. This new puppy, named Batman, was a tiny version of Jessie, my boxer, the only difference was batman had a pointy face and he had a tail and Jessie was 50 pounds, whereas Batman was only 4 pounds, other than that, the fur was the same short fawn color, both had black on their faces, white on chest and the both had floppy ears. I am telling you Batman was a Minnie Jessie. I had batman maybe 2 days when my devious little brain came up with this prank, and this only worked cause I had not yet at that time told anyone about the new puppy. I started my plan in motion by calling Scary on the phone and when she answered I was acting panicky and when she asked what was wrong I told her this, "Scary, I don't know what to do, I gave Jessie a bath and I used the hair dryer on her, and oh my god, I shrank Jessie," as I sniffled and took a breath, my sister asked me what the hell I was talking about. I repeated in my worried voice how I always blow dry Jessie after a bath but this time something went very wrong, I explained again to her, "I am telling you I shrank my dog, oh my god, what do I do?" I could hear the irritation in her voice as she told me to wait up a minute, she is picking up her grandson (who lives 2 miles away from me) and then she will come right over. I gratefully thanked her and hung up... now I had to hurry to set the rest in motion and that was by putting my boxer, Jessie, upstairs and out of site, then I got out a baggy coat to put on and stood by my window that looks out onto the road that leads to my driveway. within 20 minutes I saw her car coming, ahh, last phase of plan, I pick up Batman and put him inside of my jacket and zipped him in. I then proceed to go outside to meet my sister who is already out of her suv and just gives me a weird look as I come towards her swinging my empty arms as I walk. as she turns to open the back door to get her grandson out of the carseat she asks again what the hell I am talking about and once again I worriedly said I used the blow dryer to dry off Jessie and I shrank her and as I said this she turned to look at me and at that precise moment I pulled out batman from my jacket and said "look". My sister gasped, her eyes wide in horror and she stumbled back, and then she bit her lip, scrunched her eyes at me and gave me such a look cause she new I got her and I got her good. For a few seconds she couldn't believe what she thought she'd seen, that I somehow shrank my 50 pound boxer to a tiny thing. Then I heard histerical laughter, I didn't even realize Scary's husband was with her and had witnessed the whole thing and could hardly breathe from laughing so much. when he could talk he told me I had him going too and that it was the funniest prank he ever seen. they held batman as I went into the house to leave my Jessie out, and they just stared at the two pups cause they looked so much alike... Top that one Scarey Sherry.

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