This story originates from the great college tradition of playing pranks on other halls. In the beginning of my freshman year Speed Hall (the one I lived in) had a pretty good rivalry with Deming Hall. It had started during activities we had during freshman orientation and blossomed from there. We would do things such as stealing their Hall mascot, a fish named Jebadiah, and hanging with a noose from our hall.
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Then they would retaliate with such things as scheduling wake up calls for our entire floor at the same time, which happened to be 5 a.m. So this pattern continued back and forth (I do not remember all that happened) for a while. The crowning achievement of the rivalries, however, came at Speed's expense. In direct retaliation for stealing their fish, Deming decided to get us back with fish. To accomplish this, a couple of their residence snuck into our bathroom very early in the morning. They then proceeded to block the drain that was shared by our four showers. They also caulked a piece of plexiglas over the entrance to the showers, creating a nice little water tight area. So what do you do next? But of course, you turn on the showers. Oh, and stick some innocent goldfish in the resulting water tank. Let the showers run for a few hours and you get an aquatic wonderland.
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Gotta love those college years. As a final note about this, the enclosure was not exactly water tight. Apparently when the installed the tiles for the walls of the showers, they did not expect water to be standing against it. So it leaked into the room next to the showers. I do not think anything was damaged, but it was still quite annoying for them (Way to take another one for the team Keacher). This was the last of our great pranks, but it was quite fun while it lasted.
