Wedding Night Prank

I will admit that this didn't end up being a prank, but I thought it was worth sharing.

A coworker, for whom I was something of a mentor, got engaged. She is very smart, but a little sheltered in some ways. My wife, a friend, and I were going to have dinner with her, so I got the plan to pull a prank on her. I enlisted the help of wife and friend to pull it off.

Here's what happened:

We went to dinner and made small talk for a while. At some point in the conversation, something slightly sexual came up in conversation. I used that to segue into "Are you nervous about the wedding night stuff?" I didn't want to seem pervy, so I made it as innocent as possible. She turned really red and said that she was nervous. I let her know that she could talk to any of us about that stuff if she ever needed to. I acted like I was changing the subject when my wife said, "Once you name it, it's pretty much downhill from there."

Name it?

Yes, you're supposed to name it on the wedding night. Didn't you know that?

Since my coworker's parents are European, we were banking on the fact that maybe she thought this was something that Americans did.

At this point, the conversation moved on.

Fast-forward a few months later, coworker and I are having a very sentimental conversation and I spill the beans about naming it. She turns blood red and can't stop laughing. I ask her what was so funny. She said, "I have been really worried about that!"

It was the prank that got away.