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Contributor: Reggie Watson
Informant: Steve Head
Title: The Shower Gag
Semester/year: Fall, 2005
Instructor: John McDowell
This next practical joke was told by my roommate Steve Head. He told it more like a story so I wasn’t able to make this one look like a tape recorded conversation. Plus the fact that the recorder had already gone dead before he told me a good joke.
His joke took place here on campus in the baseball locker room. What happened was that they waited until the first person got in the shower. Once that person got in the shower the prank went into effect. They had someone come in the locker room and call for the guy that was in the shower, saying that the coach wanted to see him at the door. Knowing that the guy would just go straight to the door and not put on any clothes they felt that saying the coach wanted him was the best idea. When the kid Joe will call him, heard that the coach wanted him he did exactly what they knew he would do. He came right out of the shower with just a towel around him and went to the door. When he got to the door, Steve and a few of the other players grabbed his towel, ripped it away from him and pushed him out in the hallway. Once he was out in the hallway they closed and locked the door leaving him out there naked. They only left him out there for a few seconds, but Steve assured me they were the funniest seconds of his life.
Context
I collected this joke from my roommate/teammate Steve Head. I gathered this information one night from him when we were watching TV at our house. Because I also play baseball I did know somewhat of what happened during this event, but I didn’t know the entire thing. Steve was the one that was there personally so I knew he could give a better description of what happened.