Can Your Workmates Take a Joke?

[LordCrumb]

So something happened after work tonight... me and a co-worker got back into town to our lock up, and saw someone had left the Key in the door..

Another co-workers car was parked inside (as it has a leak around the seals of the windscreen). So we opened his door and saw a multi-pack of 'Up and Go' drinks (a breakfast milk drink thing). As a laugh, we had one and put the empty carton on the roof of his car.

Little did I know how seriously this guy has taken it. He is fuming. Several texts and a telephone call later, he's still pissed. I really thought he would have laughed it off as a "those ****s! hahaha" sort of thing, but no he is genuinely mad about it. Keeps saying 'personal car, person items' type things.

When I called him and tried to explain it was a ****ing joke, he just kept going on and on about.. so I apologized in the end saying 'I had no idea you would react like this'.. he said It didn't sound like I meant it..

To be honest.. I didn't actually mean it. It was a joke and imo, he's overreacted big time.

Now this is a guy who has no problem losing other guys tools, or miss-placing them, or just damaging them, which I mentioned to him, but I don't know.. was I a ****, or just an idiot for not really knowing how he might react?