Cream Puff Practical Jokes

Dad played a couple of great practical jokes with cream puffs. For those not familiar with cream puffs, they are a flaky pastry filled with whipped cream (about 100,000 calories each). Aunt Emily was staying with my parents and they were all watching TV. Dad asked if anyone wanted a cream puff. Mom said no, and Aunt Emily said yes, which was good because there were only two left. Dad went upstairs and brought them down on a plate. Dad presented the plate to Aunt Emily with a very small cream puff closest to her, and a very large one closest to him. Aunt Emily knew my Dad had done this intentionally, so she reached over the small one and took the large one at the back. With triumph she bit in, only to find Dad had eaten all the cream out of the big cream puff.

Another time, Dad came downstairs with a cream puff, sat down next to my sister and with a smile bit into the cream puff. My sister saw the cream bulging out of the cream puff and the temptation was too much for her. Her finger whipped out and she snatched some of the cream... only to find out Dad had eated the whipped cream out of that side of the cream puff and replaced it with shaving cream. Dad's always been a great one for practical jokes, and he's also a keen student of human behaviour!