Coming home from 2 years overseas and need to surprise family.

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twin-tip-hero

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Alright NS I need some input from the creative minds here on this site. I will be coming home after serving 2 years overseas in May. I have not seen my family in that amount of time, and they have no idea that I will be coming home. I want to make it a memorable experience for them. It will be caught on tape so I can upload for you all to see. The only person that knows I am coming home is my brother so he could help me with some aspect if called for. All that we know is that we don't want to make it a public appearance, so something that involves both my parents home and surprising them. One idea that we did have was I was going to drive down the driveway on a motorcycle in a gorilla costume, or sneaking around the house setting off firecrackers everywhere. I want them to get kinda freaked out a little and make it comical. But talking to my brother about this we can't really settle on an idea. So that is where I come to you NS for some helpful ideas. Also to make it interesting, the winning idea that I pick you will win some cool Air Force swag and prizes. To help weed out the troll ideas and get some solid ideas. Thanks for the help NS and hope to see some awesome ideas. peace.
 
Put yourself in a giant box, when your parents arent home, when they get home have your brother say a package came while they were out. They will open the box. Exit the box and act as if none of that happened. Say something like do we have any juice? Im parched.
 
this. Or just be hanging out in the house when they come home from work or something. Thats probably the easiest simplest one. Just be at home watching TV like its any other day of the week
 
Take a dump with the door open, so when they come home they see you sitting there, legs spread. Butthole puckered
 
Forget the gorilla suit lol. Just get home when they're out of the house and make dinner so it's ready for when they get home, then have a nice dinner with your family.
 
Get your brother to wear a banana suit costume and have him run down the street screaming as you chase him in a gorilla suit costume right to the front door.
 
Send them on a scavenger hunt all around town. Once they leave you go in the house and put all your stuff back inside. Then when they finally get back from the scavenger hunt that awarded them a free appetizer coupon to Chili's you are home watching TV or doing something in a gorilla costume/horse head.
 
use your air force skills to parachute in wearing a santa costume and slam down on the roof of your house while your parents are sleeping
 
I know you said you didn't want it to be public, but I think your brother should take them out to eat, even at a local diner, and then instead of the waiter bringing out the food, it's you. Especially effective if you can kind of do it from behind them, so they don't realize it's you right away.

Or just be sitting on the couch eating a bowl of cereal and watching TV when them come home, hopefully they'll think it's your brother for a second, before they realize it's you and freak out.
 
I think it would be awesome if you managed to just sneak in the house while they were sleeping, crash on your bed (if you still have one in that house), and then wake up in the morning and walk around the house casually in the morning like nothing was up.
 
oh yeah parachuting into your yard would be a good idea. have your brother have your parents look at the snowman he made, and BOOM you land in front of it
 
I remember when you made your goodbye thread before you shipped out, much respect to you.
 
Dress up as a police officer. Wear the hat, some big aviators and a mustache so they dont know its you. Head to your parents place, knock on the door and tell them that there son (you obviously) got injured in an accident on the way back form the airport or while planning for a surprise homecoming or something along those lines. Have your brother come in with you crying or saying something like "We were just trying to surprise you!" all distraught and what not. Just when theyre all convinced that youre in a coma or about to die take off your disguise. Itll be the best day of there lives.
 
yea.. or the brother could text him which place, then he could call after and explain and set a meeting point with the actual delivery driver.. something like that.
 
or just order it for pick up, pick it up, then deliver it

op you should dress up like an old man with makeup and shit and come home really old looking

irving zisman style

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Get your brother to buy your family tickets to a basketball game at a nearby college. Have the cameras pan on your family at halftime. get sometime to give you their seat right behind them just beforehand. be in your fatigues. Cash.
 
this. come down while they are making breakfast or something, ask them to make you some while they're at it and walk out like nothing happened.
 
Do this ; when your parents go to bed wait a little bit till they start falling asleep (use your brother contact for this) once they are enter in your house with a three hole ''thief'' facemask and start fake stealing thing (by making noise like opening the fridges and drop a couple of fork etc..) them when your parent go down to verify if it's an actual thief scared them for a couple second and then just say, Oh hey, I was preparing myself a bowl of icecream ore something...!
 


Walk in during dinner with flowers for your mom, and bottle of your dads favorite sippin liquor, and tell your brother you're coming home a couple weeks later, which will surprise him as well.

OR

(This one could take some work)

Have your brother get a gift card for your families favorite restaurant (he can tell your parents he "won" it in school or work) and figure out a time for them to go. Meanwhile, call the restaurant and tell em your story. Ask if you can borrow one of their uniforms, and bring them out their food after they order. See if they even notice.

I definitely think the 2nd one would be awesome.
 
Sneak in during the afternoon while they are at work, make a nice dinner for them to have when they get home, and just be there to enjoy it with them
 
Put yourself in a box. And have your brother leave you at the doorstep. When they open the box try to play it off like you shipped yourself home from Iraq. Act super hungry and thirsty. Maybe put some empty food wrappers and water bottles in the box with you. After they realize what's happening, act like they need to hide you from the po po.
 
have your brother tell you when your mom goes shopping for groceries or something.

then, you can pull the gorilla+banana idea on your dad while he's home alone, or pull the "walk around the house like nothing is going on" idea, or anything really....

then once your dad knows, have him call up your mom and be like "hey _____ (insert your name here) would like some ________ (insert beverage or food here), he's hungry (and/or) thirsty." and then just hang up.

or you could call yourself and do that.. just be like "hey mom can you pick up some OJ while you're there? thanks!" and then hang up.

first idea would be better cause she'd come racing home with no idea.... then you could even potentially play it off as your dad was pulling a joke on her.... meanwhile you are about to surprise her in a completely different way hahahaha

JOKES ON JOKES ON JOKES...... JOKECEPTION.
 
I like the first one, you could be in your military uniform. Maybe having it in public wouldn't be that bad. I mean after serving overseas for two years, you would probably get a good applause from everyone in the restaurant.
 
Try this;

MY STORY: Moved out west to hang out/teach skiing when I was 17. Hurt my knee, had to come home. I told my mom but I didn't tell any of my friends. I get home, and I tell them I miss them and want to skype from this old hangout spot of our 4 da memories. Then I dress up in a big coat (it was warm that day so a little weird) and sat at the bench (the spot is a bench) However they didn't sit down cause I looked weird so I made a call from the payphone and filmed it on my gopro. Check out the reaction video!! :P

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if you wanna be kinda fucked up you could dress up as one of the people who brings your family a flag when your family member dies but wear a mustache and they'll be really sad but then they'll be like wait what the fuck.
 
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