Many years ago when I was a young'un, we had a mouse problem. And the mouse liked to get in the drawers in our kitchen.
So my mom was setting one of those snap traps and she hated setting those things 'cause she was skeered that they were going to snap on her.
Anywho, she was intently managing the snap trap and I was watching.
And just for fun, I slammed that kitchen drawer closed as hard as I could with a very loud bang.

I had to set the traps from then on.

Just yesterday, the boy and I were making breakfast for the wife and we were making canned biscuits. The boy had never opened any canned biscuits but he knows that loud pop they make and he was being all tentative about opening them. He carefully pulled the outside wrapping away and it came off, but no pop. Then he got a spoon to press on the secret spot to pop them open. He gently put the spoon to the biscuits and I yelled "hey" about as loud as I could. He just about hit the ceiling when he jumped.

Roy D Mercer was great. Used to listen to him with the dads at the deer lease.

This reminded me of fishing on Lake Fork years ago. I had an old Skeeter SS-1 Fisherman with a 40hp Mariner on the back. The boat would do about 35-40 max. I was driving full open throttle heading into a cove and intent on watching for stumps, and my fishing partner was in the passenger seat. Just for fun, he screams out "HEY!!" at the top of his lungs. Scared me so bad, I ram the throttle lever back so fast water came up over the back. He was laughing his azz off. Good times, good times.

My favorite all time was when he called the chiropractor because his wife had gone in for those mybrain headaches and what ever he did, it caused her to lose her sex drive. I mean he even met her at the door in saran wrap and didn't even get a blink out of her.

we had a fellow employee who would steal lunches. We knew who, but couldn't catch him. One day he stole a cat poop taco. That broke him of stealing food.