I just realized that my high school friends and I almost definitely and inadvertently caused someone to have an "I almost got snatched" story...

This was before the days of Jackass, but after Bam Margera came out with CKY2K (the precursor to Jackass), and being skater nerds, we thought we would be cool and videotape ourselves doing dumb stuff, pranks, etc. One day 5 of us were out in town shooting some pranks on the main street like having my buddy jump out of the bushes to ask for a quarter to call his mom, while wearing his sister's pink soccer goalie outfit. We also bought a big stuffed animal at Toys R Us, then went to a Mcdonalds where my friend ordered by doing a horrible ventriloquist thing with the stuffed animal. As I said, we did really silly stuff.

Anyway, we had been out all day running around doing these pranks, so we were pretty tired, hungry, etc. (we got kicked out of the McDonalds). On the way home along the main road in our town, we saw a lemonade stand sign and I decided to stop so we could get some lemonade. You know, because it's delicious. We pulled over to the lemonade stand, situated at the end of a long driveway, and for some absurd reason the parents had just left their daughter at the stand alone. She was probably 8 years old.

I thought that was odd, and was a little concerned, so after I ordered 5 lemonades, I asked "hey, where are your parents?" The little girl said that they had just gone inside, which was totally reasonable, I guess...this was the 90's. It still seemed a little unsafe to me that she was out there alone on a main road.

However, this was also the moment my friend in the pink goalie outfit thought he would be a super nice guy try to give the giant stuffed animal to the little girl. I guess he thought we had finished our pranks for the day, and what do 5 teenage boys sitting in a truck need with a brand new stuffed animal, anyway? My friend was a particularly awkward person, so as he jumped out of the car in his absurd pink outfit with a giant stuffed animal, the best his immensely sophisticated teenage brain could come up to say to this child, standing alone at the end of her driveway, was the following line, which I will never forget:

"Hey little girl, do you want a stuffed animal"?

She took one look at him, screamed, and ran down her driveway towards the house.

I, along with the other guys in the truck, turned to my friend and all gave him some version of "WTF is wrong with you dude?" I dropped the fistful of dollars I had out on the table, ran to the truck, and we bolted out of there. Didn't even grab the lemonades.

I bet that little girl thinks she was almost snatched. All we wanted was lemonade and to give her a nearly new stuffed animal.

TL;DR: Teenage friends and I went to a lemonade stand. Buddy scared the kid half to death. Didn't get lemonades.