The Bacon Prank

I was on a particularly slow shift with Kat. The way our middle island is set up, there's a body form on it, so when we need to text we typically go behind the body form so we don't get yelled at for having our phones out. I was leaning against the middle island while Kat rang up two ladies, and I noticed without much interest that Kat had left her phone there. As I looked at it, her phone lit up with a text from her boyfriend, a fellow coworker. "Hey, are you spending the night? I have bacon for tomorrow morning." I swiped her phone open and texted back quickly, "Give the bacon to Reggie." (Reggie is me, for the uninformed reader). I then went into the message history and deleted the text I'd just sent from the conversation. Trying not to laugh I rejoined the conversation Kat was having with the two girls.

After a while it was time to start closing. I went into the back with my register, but forgot my count down sheet. As I was coming back up for it I spied her phone lying on the counter while she set up the vacuum in lingerie. I quickly opened it to see the confusion I'd caused. It now appeared Christian had asked if she was staying the night, then immediately after texted again saying, "Wait, does that mean you aren't staying the night?" To which Kat had replied, "What? I just got that text. I'm staying the night." Grinning, I hurriedly texted, "I just think she deserves bacon." And frantically deleted it as Kat came into view. I was laughing as I walked past her into the back. She asked what was so funny and I just shook my head.

When I came up to enter my final amounts into the computer I saw her frowning at her phone. I couldn't stop myself, nonchalantly I asked what that face was for. "Christian's being confusing." "Oh?" I asked innocently. "He's saying she can pick it up if she wants it, but I have no idea who 'she' is supposed to be, and it was right after I said I was staying the night. And earlier he asked if I was staying over, then immediately after asked if I wasn't, when I hadn't responded." Throughout this speech I had to turn my face away, unable to look at her without laughing. "Weird," I agreed.
I clocked out and left her to do the same, losing my self control in the back room I started laughing silently, grinning ear to ear. After a minute she joined me in the back, phone out. "He's saying that we should give you bacon? That you're going to come pick it up? What?" I couldn't handle it, I burst out laughing.

I explained the prank, laughing so hard I had tears in the corners of my eyes, and Kat went from bewildered to amused. Normally when we get at each others phones we just add keyboard short cuts that make common words like "the" autocorrect to obscenities, so this was a pretty groundbreaking prank. Helped pass the time too.