Impractical Practical Jokester

At Frick Hospital in Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania where I worked, there was a nursing assistant named Kurt who had an extremely wicked and perverted sense of humor. Nothing was sacred to him and his quick mind would exploit any opportunity that appeared. This prankster would go out of his way to play a joke on a fellow employee.

Sara our head nurse on the med/surg. floor was a short, full figured woman while the assistant head nurse Angelica was thin and tall.

When they stood close to each other, they looked like Laurel and Hardy. These women had a mutual dislike for each other and rarely stood near each other. It was only because they had to work together, that they tolerated each other at all. They worked on the daylight shift and Karl who worked the afternoon shift, often played jokes on both of them. He would do something for one nurse to find and make her upset by making it look like the other nurse had done it. He did it to spur their rivalry.

The head nurse still wore garters and a rubber girdle. She kept a container of talcum powder in the restroom. She used it to powder herself so she could more easily squirm back into her girdle after using the toilet.

When Kurt found out about this habit of Sara the head nurse and became the target of his next prank. He pried the cap off her talc container and poured a layer of Ajax cleanser onto the talcum powder in the container. He popped the lid back on and set the container back in place on the restroom shelf.

The trap was set. It lay in wait for the head nurse to come in on the daylight shift the following day. After she used the bathroom the next morning, as usual, she applied her powder and a few minutes later, she began to squirm. She fidgeted for a few minutes before she made a second run to the bathroom. The itching became a nuisance. She told one of the other nurses, “I don’t know what was wrong. Something’s making me itch.” She never did find the reason for her itch or that she was again the “butt” of one of Kurt’s warped jokes.