Reddit, whats's the dumbest way you've scared yourself?

A few years ago I worked as a Barback. As is the nature of the industry sometimes things are slow and I would always take those opportunities to play practical jokes on the bartenders. I'd do things like putting ketchup on the handles of the soda guns or twisting the caps off beers and leaving them on the bottles so that when the bartenders removed them they'd be thrown off balance or drop their bottle openers.

Anyway, one night I bring a fake roach on a string to work. Whenever one of the bartenders wasn't looking I'd take the fake roach out of my pocket and place it next to them. I'd wait for them to turn around and then I'd yank on the string until they noticed it and start freaking out. I would of course start bursting out in laughter and then I'd put the roach back in my pocket.

Eventually, I ended up pranking all the bartenders and was pretty happy with myself. I decided to go smoke a cigarette outside. As I step out from behind the bar I reach into my pocket to get my lighter. I fell some kind of foreign object and pull out. I open my hand and there's the roach. I freak out and scream like a little girl. All the bartenders turn around and realize what just happened and start cracking up.

tl;dr - I scared my coworkers all night with a fake roach, forgot it was in my pocket and ended up scaring myself with it.