What’s the Best Time Your Family Has Ever Trolled You?: The Answers

Yesterday, I told you guys the latest in Hughes family trolling: my dumb sister sent me a dumb Valentine’s Day card that’s just a dumb picture of her dumb face. Rude, but also NOTHING compared to the stories you guys told me. Check the comments on yesterday’s article for some gold, but here are a few of my faves from Twitter. Feel free to send me more stories!!!!!!! Or pictures of dogs. Or tacos???? I’m pretty much open to anything.

@thehairpin once my mom woke me up at dawn, told me the rapture was happening, & took me to church in my pjs. It was a youth group retreat.

— jessie (@ex_liontamer) February 18, 2015

@jazzedloon every time we went to the zoo dad reminded my sister that if she misbehaved we were allowed to leave her with a monkey family

— tropical sturm (@mynameismiles) February 18, 2015

@thehairpin Parents convinced me I had unknowingly accepted admission to all-women military college & would face jail time if I backed out.

— Georgia Cowley (@hellogeorgia) February 18, 2015

@jazzedloon When my sister asked my dad why he was bald, he told her ants ate his hair. She was scared of ants for YEARS.

— Daisy Razor (@daisy_razor) February 18, 2015

@jazzedloon When I was 7 or 8 he told me ice cream was made of whale blubber. I told all the neighbor kids. “He’s a teacher so he KNOWS.”

— Fig (@figwiggin) February 18, 2015

@jazzedloon my third-grade teacher’s name was Mrs. Berger & my mom successfully convinced me that her first name was “Ham.” I told everyone

— Jia Tolentino (@jiatolentino) February 18, 2015

@jazzedloon my fisherman-dad’s favorite activity is to tell us, without fail, how nice the weather was before we all woke up

— Alanna Okun (@Alannabean) February 18, 2015

@jazzedloon when I was younger, my uncle convinced me the capital of Somalia was named after me — MogaDISHu

— Disha Jani (@DishaKJani) February 18, 2015

@thehairpin my brilliant sister hid a “mailbox” in the attic where my real alien family sent me letters and homework assignments from space.

— Catherine DeGennaro (@cdegennaro) February 18, 2015

@thehairpin Did you know the TV remote doesn’t shock you if you tune to MTV? Did you?!?!?!

— Madison M Kircher (@4evrmalone) February 18, 2015

@thehairpin & once 1 of my sisters told another that clothes didn’t exist in precolonial times, so she drew naked ppl for her homework

— MaríaJosé E.H. (@majos_eh) February 18, 2015

@jazzedloon the morning of my 8th birthday when I was supposed to go horseback riding my parents told me all the horses died in a barn fire.

— Britt Embry (@seriffed) February 18, 2015

@thehairpin my dad told us that if we didn’t grill on labor day, memorial day, and the 4th of july the barbecue police would arrest us

— Julie Beck (@julieebeck) February 18, 2015

@thehairpin My Dad got his friend to call me after I got accepted into college pretending to be the dean, saying they’d made a mistake.

— Anne T. Donahue (@annetdonahue) February 18, 2015

@thehairpin Gave me car keys on 16th bday for car that was coming “2 weeks later,” 2 weeks later told me I could use dad’s car when needed.

— Rachelle Dragani (@RachelleDragani) February 18, 2015

There’s a lesson here: Troll or be trolled. Take notes.