Well, I was somewhat disappointed with how this prank turned out. I came in to work this morning and set the cookies down on the table in the office as an offering. A couple of people walked in and said things like, "ooh! Oreo's!", but nobody tried one. Finally, after a couple of hours one of the crazy Canadians I work with came in and noticed the Oreo's. I told him to help himself. He grabbed five of them. He started talking about some hockey game or something and was just eating the Oreo's. After the second one, he says, "Wow! These are REALLY minty!". After the third one, I said, "Okay man, let me stop you right there. Those cookies are filled with toothpaste, and I'm not sure that it's a good idea to keep eating them". Then, he ate another one. Dude is nuts. We still had some good laughs over it.
So, before lunch, I took them down to my squadron's common area. There is a snack bar, copy machine and other stuff in there. People passing through all the time. I set them on the desk in there. The guy who sits at the desk, knows me and was instantly skeptical. So, I told him what was up and to watch and let me know what happens in case I'm not around. Right then, somebody walked up and grabbed a cookie. He bit into it, started chewing and then went running for the trash can. HA! The next guy to try one had the same result. So, I assumed that my Canadian friend was just weird and that everybody else would notice. Later, I heard that somebody had eaten four of the Oreo's. Then, another guy apparently ate five. Neither one noticed. So, I go down to check it out and right then, one of the big ****** bag's I work with, is in there and goes for the package. He eats one. I figure that he's about to fly into a rage any second. Then, he eats another. And another. Then, somebody comes up and starts talking to him and he keeps eating the cookies. I counted 12 cookies eaten. I thought about stopping him, but didn't know if it was a good idea since he's prone to throwing fits.
By the end of lunch, the whole package had been eaten. Only two of the cookies were actually spit out. Then, somebody mentioned that toothpaste was poisonous. So now, I'm thinking that since I saw the guy eat half a tube of toothpaste, that it could get real bad. I decided to call poison control and see what they said. I explained the situation to the lady on the phone. She couldn't even talk to me for about a minute because she was laughing so hard. Anyways, she said that a lot of the things people hear about eating toothpaste, are a myth. However, you really shouldn't eat toothpaste. She said that if you eat a lot of it, you can get some nausea and diarrhea. So, I can live with that. If it was going to kill somebody or make them violently ill, I would have come forward and told somebody.
So, lesson learned for me. If you do this prank, choose something other than toothpaste. Nobody seemed to notice. I'm going to be on some TDY's for a couple of months, but when I get back, I'm going to do it again and use something that people WILL notice and won't make them sick. Like, salt or tuna or something.
