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| Sat, 04-01-2006 - 9:46am |
Do you or does anyone in your family play April Fools Day pranks? Every year dh plays a prank on a long-suffering co-worker and every year the poor thing falls for it. One year, he pretended to take her up on an offer to watch dd while we went on vacation (she'd casually mentioned being willing). He presented her with dates and an elaborate schedule of dd's alleged "activities" (including routine meditation and being driven to birthday parties all over NE ohio). She hadn't mentioned the "offer" to her dh and my evil dh left her hanging for THREE DAYS before he confessed!
This year, I am to call her to confirm a delivery of a ton of gravel. She and her dh have been fighting about this and I am to act as though the delivery is on it's way and can't be stopped. The gravel will supposedly be dropped at the end of her driveway unless she can signal the driver ahead. I wonder how long she'll stand at the end of her driveway..... Poor thing.
One year he sent a letter (on fire department stationary - he is a volunteer) to another coworker with a bill for a false alarm call. There was as fundraiser there and this coworker put out candles that set off the smoke alarms.
Another year - many years back - we had a friend staying out our house while we were on vacation. I called and left a message on the answering machine saying I was a friend coming from Armenia with my four children to stay twoo weeks. He hid in the kitchen with the lights out all day until it dawned on him that the voice on the phone sounded strangely familiar!
We haven't thought of one to play on dd yet - but she did hang a sign on the full length mirror in our room "objects in the mirror may appear older than they are!"
I've read about some pretty funny and elaborate pranks over the years - hooking up the car horn so it sounds every time you turn the wheel - crazy things like that.
So now you all know how sick we are here ...I'll post on Monday as to how the gravel prank went. I hope I can think of a proper prank for dd!
jt
(last year she came home on 4/1 with a detention - signed by one of the nuns - for defacing school property! I actually bought it for a nanosecond!)

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Haha! Now you've hit upon my area of expertise!!
I wrote my first April Fool's e-mail at 12:30 this morning! But thanks for the new ideas!
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I sent out my e-mails to friends this morning at 12:30! How I'd wrecked my car, let it then roll down a hill and into a lake, and met a nice man who was in the Aryan Nation, etc., etc.
I called my mother and told her I'd been arrested last night, but she misunderstood and that one fell flat!
DH works out of town and when I went to pick him up today I carried my suitcase and told him we'd have to find a place to stay because I'd lost the electric bill money gambling. The look on his face was priceless!
In the past I have filled up a friend's car with rolled up wads of newspaper. That one takes awhile! I've got pictures of the car, filled to the very top! The police came that time but they laughed and let us go. Another friend and I have completely covered another friend's office with post-its! Covered the desk, chair, etc. And it took alot of post-its!!
You would think that by now my friends would blow off anything I had to say on April Fool's Day.... but nope! I get them almost every year!
I'm thinking of calling my father tonight and tell him that all his cattle are gone from the pasture where I live.
How did your day go?
zz
I'm not usually very clever with April Fools' Day. It tends to get lost in whatever else is going on at the moment. But I've gotten a few in from time to time.
DH detests rodents of any variety and one year he came home from work and found me, DS and DD laying on the floor of our bedroom with our heads stuck under our bed and tupperware containers in our hands. At the time, we had a cat that was a ferocious hunter and oh! the critters that cat drug into the house! They are too numerous to name.
Anyway, when we told DH that the cat had brought a mouse in and managed to get it all the way up the stairs and into our room before we noticed and we were trying to catch it, he totally wigged out. I think he would have checked into a hotel rather than sleep in a bed that had a mouse hiding underneath it.
Today, we celebrated DS' 12th birthday. (It's actually on Tuesday -- he was born 4-4-94 at 1:40pm!) He'd been whining about how he should get his birthday presents today since today was his birthday celebration. I have this thing about gifts -- birthday presents get opened ON the actual birthday, NOT before. Likewise for Christmas presents -- they wait until Christmas morning to get opened.
So ... I put a tube of toothpaste and a pair of lacy pink bikini panties in a gift bag and gave it to DS today to open at his 'celebration'. His face was just about the color of those panties. DD was in on it and we both got a big April Fool's tee hee out of it before I handed over his 'real' gift.
Yes, I am surprised your friends and family aren't on to you by now! It must be just like dh's coworker - the time gets away from them and they let their guard down.
I made the call for dh and left a message on her machine. It was actually pretty lame, and I'm guessing she didn't fall for it. Our exchange student was fairly amsued by the whole thing...
Oh yeah, I'm sure the time gets away from them. That's one reason I sent my e-mails out at 12:30 a.m. They don't even realize it's April Fools Day when they grab that first cup of coffee and check their e-mail early in the morning!!
zz
How funny about your DH and the "supposed" mouse! I would have reacted the exact same way!
When I was 18, I set out on my own. Refused to let my parents know what kind of conditions I was living in. It was nothing unusual for the mice to run through the living room, all over the kitchen, the attic just rumbled. You just couldn't kill them fast enough.
Anyway, one night I heard something slip in under the bedroom door. I just froze. I heard it jump onto the nightstand next to the bed and walk over the magazines there. Still frozen. That mouse them jumped square into my hair and I went SCREAMING through the house like a crazy person!!
SOOOOOO, I would never sleep in a house with a known mouse in the bedroom!! Never never!!
I crack up just picturing ya'll under that bed! Haha!
zz
O-M-G! I think that would have done me in for mice, too. DD and I tend to think they're kind of cute, furry defenseless little things, but in my hair? I would have done exactly the same thing you did!
When DH and I were first married, we lived in Saudia Arabia. We had a cockroach problem there. Actually, I don't think it was just us, I'm pretty sure the whole country had a cockroach problem. One night, as I was washing my face, I reached over for the hand towel with my eyes still closed and still bent over the bathroom sink. I started to dry off my face and felt something hard fall against it. I opened my eyes and there was the hugest cockroach I had ever seen scuttling around in the sink. That thing was nearly 3" long! Eeeww!
One year we had ordered a new refrigerator and it was scheduled for delivery on April 1st. I wasn't thinking about anything that morning I took off from work to wait for the delivery except how excited I was about having a new fridge when the phone rang. It was a delivery guy claiming that they had attempted to back into our driveway when the fridge fell out of the back of the truck and was now dented on one side and in the back. Would I accept the fridge as is OR deny delivery and wait 6 weeks for a new one? Well, needless to say, I was shocked and outraged and almost started to cry when I thought of waiting another 6 weeks (our current fridge used to whistle it's fan all night) and started asking lots of questions like, Why would it take 6 more weeks, are you sure you're at the right house (It never occurred to me to go outside and check). I finally felt anger and started ripping into this guy. The phone went silent and suddenly I asked, "Is this PJ working with my H by any chance?" and then the laughter began! It was a co-worker of my H's!! The KNOWN king of practical jokers.
Another year I was at work and my co-worker transferred a call to me. It was a co-worker of my H's. He was hysterical yelling into the phone that my H had fallen off a roof and was in the hospital - that his roofing gun had went off and he had a nail in his butt cheek!! I immediately remembered that it was April Fools day and asked him, "Is this for April fools' day?" and he denied it was. He told me I had to come down to the hospital. I was skeptical and hung up. Then I called back the hospital and asked if my H was there, I was transferred to the ER and a male nurse answered the phone, this nurse sounded like a friend of ours so I asked to speak with my H. I was told he wasn't available and was having x-rays done. Hard to believe I know, but I still thought it was a hoax. Begrudgingly, I left work, picked up my dd's from the bus and went into the city to the hospital, where I was certain I'd be met by H's co-workers all having a good laugh at my expense. I even stopped at Wendy's with the girls for lunch. When we got to the ER and I asked for H, there were no questions asked or anything, and I was told to go to the end of the hall and make a right and that I'd find H on a gurney in the hall. I thought "that was too easy". Well, doesn't that sound suspicious??? I was smirking as I turned the bend and saw H lying on a gurney, without his pants, HUGE bandage on his left butt cheek and a DR and nurse hovering over him. He looked out of it. His pants had a HUGE hole in them and my smile faded. It was not an april fool's joke!! But I felt like a fool! My H was laid up for about 2 weeks. Heehee.
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