Second year in the industrial design program meant 3 hour drawing labs in the Brimhall building. In 1987-1988, they were in the process of refurbing the outside of the building, and they had a chain link fence surrounding part of the grounds directly across from the JSB and testing center. At the time, I believe our teacher was John Marshall, who led the transportation design team downstairs. Anyway, we usually spent our days with about 30 minutes of instruction, and the rest of the time working on whatever drawings or schematics we had to complete.
Now, the fun thing about the Brimhall was that it had tinted, one-way windows, allowing you to sit and watch people on the outside, and they had no clue they were being spied on. So I came up with this great idea. We were on the 2nd floor facing the JSB and the MAJOR walkway to the testing center. I quickly created a sign that read 'Do NOT look up!' and placed it on the fence just under our windows, giving us a front row view of people's reactions. By the time I ran back up to the classroom, just about everyone was already plastered to the windows laughing. Even the teacher.
It was hilarious. People would walk up, pause while reading the sign, and then 95% of them would look up. One guy walked by drinking a soda, looked side to side as if to check and see if anyone was looking, and then tilted his head back as if taking a large drink -- and looked all around up in the air. One girl stopped, read the sign, looked up and all around, and then shook her head with a look of disgust as if thinking "what are they talking about?"
This little stunt filled our entire 3 hour block. Like I said, even the teacher sat and watched and laughed at people the ENTIRE time. As we left for our next class, incoming students for the next class were told of the prank, and they took up positions at the windows as we exited.
The sign was gone the next morning.
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