the prank

Everyday objects like drinking straws often make excellent materials for pranks. With a little practice, you can use a straw to magically transform a glass of apple juice into soda and leave your victims thinking they are losing their minds!

what you need

* 2 drinking glasses

* 2 different colored beverages

* 2 plastic drinking straws (not the see-through kind)

what you do

THE SETUP

1 Offer your friend or sibling a choice of the two beverages, making sure each drink looks and tastes very different from each other. For example, one drink could be cola, and the other apple juice.

2 Prepare the drinks where your victim can’t see you. Fill your victim’s glass almost to the top with whatever she asks for. This is drink #1. Now fill another glass about three-quarters full with the other beverage. This is drink #2.

3 Place a straw in drink #2 and let it touch the bottom of the glass. Put your index finger over the top of the straw so it’s completely covered. This will keep the liquid inside the straw.

4 Carefully remove the straw from the glass, keeping your index finger over the opening, and put it in drink #1. Don’t remove your finger until the straw is touching the bottom of the glass.

5 Now put the second, clean straw in beverage #2. That’s your drink.

PULL THE PRANK

1 Serve the drinks. Your victim will be shocked when she takes the first sip and the drink doesn’t taste a bit like what she asked for. You can add to the confusion by saying, “So what does it taste like?” When she says it tastes like beverage #2, say, “But it doesn’t even look like it. Maybe because you are looking at my drink, your brain cells got mixed up and that’s what you’re tasting!”