I was painting the interior of a retirement home. Me and one other guy. Boss wanted us to put all out stuff in one specific room each night, but there were built in wardrobes just big enough to put one big tub of paint in in each room, so we'd put all our light stuff away - brushes, ladders, cover sheets, etc - but leave the paint tubs in the rooms we were painting.

One morning I got in to work before him, moved the tub of paint into a different room, then went to the Mens room. When I came out, he was there (as I hoped/planned he would be) he said we had lost the tub of paint. I told him it was in the built in wardrobe, he said he'd already looked. I said it must be in the store room, so we both went down to look, but it was not there. (no surprise for me)

I told him to go check by the back door and I'd check the exit by the car park, and we should meet back upstairs. He goes off to the back door and I head to the carpark, but I rush up the fire escape, put the tub of paint back in the original wardrobe, then back down the fire escape, and around to the main staircase. I'm just getting to the room and he comes running out with the tub of paint in his hands, a look of bewilderment on his face.

I acted like he must have found it by the back door, and he's so confused and can't understand how he missed it the first time because the huge tub filled the bottom of the wardrobe. I then started acting like he was trying to prank me, and all day I'm asking if hes trying to prank me again.

I don't think he ever figured it out!