This joke is probably one of the most iconic pranks on a sleepover with friends. Pranking friends by making them wet the bed is interesting to do. First, your friend will pee in their pants (funny, right?) and second, it will make you feel like you can put a spell on them. While the credibility of these jokes is questionable and the end result may not necessarily live up to expectations, they often work so well that you are advised to try them yourself….
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Part 1 of 2: Preparing a Joke
Step 1. Drink plenty of fluids before bed
This joke won't work if your victim is sleeping with an empty bladder. To avoid suspicion, offer coke, water, tea, or juice to everyone staying overnight (not just a joke target), you'll have to drink a lot yourself to convince them.
- When you want to use the bathroom, go quietly. Don't make your friends go to the bathroom either.
- Foods that have a lot of water content such as yogurt and soups can also be used. Watermelon is known to have a lot of water content. Serving watermelon slices before bedtime is a clever way to make this joke happen.
Step 2. Stay up late
If it's still close to bedtime, you'll have a hard time knowing whether the potential victim is really asleep or still awake. So stay up as late as possible, because your friends will automatically fall asleep when they're tired (sometimes sitting down, for example, still holding their Nintendo controller in their hands).
Step 3. Keep your target (potential joke victim) busy
Friends who are tired of various kinds of entertainment (such as playing games or watching movies) tend to be lazy to use the bathroom before bed with a lot of fluids in their bodies.
- Don't draw too much attention. Paying attention to how your friends drink, or repeatedly preventing them from using the bathroom can expose your ulterior motives.
- If you don't want to choose a potential victim first, doing the same preparation to all your friends is also a tactic that can be done.
Step 4. Make sure your potential victim is asleep
This joke will only work if the victim is really asleep. Watch for snoring, or a gaping mouth. Call their name slowly if you're still not sure.
Part 2 of 2: Dipping Victim's Hand in Warm Water
Step 1. Fill the bowl with warm water
Using a plastic bowl is safer than a glass because it has more room for your hands; plastic material also will not break when touched. You don't want to be scolded by your parents (or friends' parents) for breaking the ceramic bowl because the victim wakes up and hits the bowl.
- Although it's still speculation (because the efficacy of this joke is not guaranteed), if this joke works, it's because of the power of suggestion. The same mechanism applies to our desire to urinate when we hear the sound of running water.
- The water used should be warm, not hot. Hot water can scald your friend's hands.
Step 2. Bring warm water secretly into the room
Even if you don't wake the victim, there's a risk that another friend will wake up and witness the joke. Only you can determine whether this can be a problem or not, because it all depends on how much you want to hide.
Step 3. Clear the area around the potential victim
It is possible that the victim bumped the bowl and spilled water, whether intentional or not. You certainly don't want anything to break when this happens. Therefore, move items that should not be exposed to water around the victim slowly (a radius of 1.5 meters from the victim is a safe distance). Make sure no electronic equipment is left behind.
Step 4. Place the victim's sleeping hand in the water
You must be in the right position to do this. There are many possible hand positions; read the situation and find the easiest way to put their hand in the water.
- If the victim's hands are dangling from the bed, you may be able to place a bowl under them.
- If their hands are dangling from the top of the bunk bed or on the armrests of the sofa, you may need to stack a few books under the bowl to reach them, or place the bowl on a stool.
- If it doesn't dangle, be careful! Move their hands slowly so they can be put in the bowl. Take a position that allows you to immediately pretend to be asleep (or hide) if the victim wakes up.
- If the victim's hand is under their head or body, you may not be able to successfully move the hand. Wait a while, or find another victim.
Step 5. Pretend to be asleep
Lie on the bed as if you were asleep, so no one knows what you're going to do. If the victim is wondering, just say you were fast asleep the whole time!
Step 6. Keep your secret well
One of the joys of making jokes is that there is no certainty that they will work. Keeping your success or failure secret to get a friend to wet the bed will give the activity a thick aura of mystery. So don't tell anyone!
Keeping the prank a secret can also prevent victims from feeling embarrassed and depressed. Bullying someone is not the purpose of a joke and cannot be justified under any circumstances
Tips
- Don't mess with friends and family who don't like to joke around, or people who don't like being humiliated. Jokes shouldn't be cruel and should be fun for everyone (the victim should be happy to be able to plot a backlash).
- If you suspect this prank will be applied to you, try sleeping with your hands on top and remembering to pee before bed.
- Don't play with this joke if you're too lazy to clean up the mess! If you get caught, you'll be the one responsible for cleaning up the rest of the mess, so be careful.
- Create a false alibi to cover up your actions.
- If you plan to do this prank, make sure your victim brings extra clothes or underwear.
- If you are a victim, it is very difficult to find a way out of not feeling ashamed. The best way is to accept it wholeheartedly and act as if wetting the bed is not a big deal, or think of it as something cool.
- Don't play this prank on people who already have bedwetting problems, as it can make them feel sad and embarrassed.
- Take this as a joke if you fall victim to it!
- Don't prank people with a bad sense of humor. They may hold a grudge and try to harm you.
- It would be unwise to play this prank on a friend who is having a bedwetting problem. Shyness can make their problems even more difficult to deal with.
