#easter prank

It wasn’t an elaborate prank or a creative prank. In fact, I had pulled this same prank on her multiple times in the past, but it never got as much attention as it did this time.

My mom is one of those people who never logs out of Facebook, so it’s become almost a tradition for me to get on my parents’ computer and post a funny status update or profile picture on my mom’s account every time I visit. Usually I just put something like “Hi, I’m Mary Ann, I love Justin Bieber and I don’t know how to log out of Facebook!” but this time, since it was Easter, I decided to be a bit more... shall we say, festive with it.

“Happy Easter, everyone! This one is really special because this morning I took a poop and it looked JUST LIKE a chocolate bunny! :D”

After I posted it, I logged out of her account and got on to my own so I could scroll through my own news feed. To my surprise, I had a notification from Facebook telling me that my mom had “posted for the first time in a while.”

Oops.

Apparently lots of her Facebook friends got that notification, because by the end of the day the post had earned nearly fifty likes/laughing faces, and about the same amount of comments. Most of the people who commented thought it was pretty obvious that her account had been hijacked, but my mom still felt the need to reply to as many of them as she could saying that she’d been hacked and that she was going to kill me.

I’m still laughing about it. It was the highlight of Easter. Mom was furious, but everyone else thought it was the funniest damn thing.

We went to my grandma’s house for Easter after I posted it, and every time someone walked in, they would inevitably find my mom and say something like “Hey, I heard about your chocolate bunny!” I would periodically pull out my phone to update everyone at the party on how many new comments it had gotten in the last few hours, so the situation got progressively more hilarious as the night went on.

My redneck uncle had the best response though. At one point we were talking about how much attention it was getting, and he said “It went viral before you could wipe your ass!”