Senior year of HS, 3 buddies of mine and I were driving to Daytona Beach for Spring Break. We decided to take along the annoying, grumpy neighbor's lawn gnome. It was about 3 feet tall and his wife apparently painted the thing.
So we start taking pics of the lawn gnome traveling down the east coast....in Pitt, next to a Rocky Mountain Oysters served here sign in Va., at a Peach Farm in S. Carolina etc. Then in front of the motel in Daytona, with chicks rubbing their breasts in its face, in bars, with beers, with the bong, at the bottom of the pool etc.
We return the thing a week later, with a set of photos taped to it. Apparently, we left one photo with our faces in the set. Grumpy old dude saw me a week later, smiled and said his lawn gnome had a better week than he did. Took the joke suprisingly well. His wife looked at me funny ever since, however.