Jon loved practical jokes and was always coming up with ideas on who to mess with and how.  The only trouble was that he never wanted to play the joke himself.  He would spend hours trying to convince someone else to play it.  When they finally broke down and agreed to do it he made sure he was at a safe distance to observe the mayhem that ensued. Sadly this was before cell phones so none of it was captured for America’s funniest videos.  I remember one holiday party where we would give secret Santa gag gifts.  Jon came up with a funny gag gift for a horrid co-worker Maura.  She had recently moved into an apartment and was always arguing with the neighbors.  She would do such things as throw a child’s bike in the dumpster if they left it on the side walk.  Jon found out the co-op student had her name and spent days working on the gag gift for him.  It was a neighborhood welcoming kit for her new neighbors. It was packed in an army ammo box complete with eggs, toilet paper and assorted projectiles.  When the gift was opened Maura’s “Nut Job” husband went postal and threatened to kill the co-op.  Your dad strategically watched from the doorway and slipped out after it unfolded. The co-op was clueless that he was the one being set up.   I was in the back of the room and could hear Jon laughing so hard he was in tears rolling on the floor.  He just loved it when a plan came together and we did too.