What are you doing for April Fool''s Day?

[Regular Guy]

OK, I''m off to wake up my boys, telling them they''ve just missed their bus, and are late for school.

Help me figure out what''s next.....!

 

[Fly Girl]

I''m shovelling out from a winter snow storm. No fooling.... Were you wanting real jokes, or just the one mother nature played on us here?

 

[777_LDY]

Heehee, that''s funny Regular Guy! I forgot about it this morning but my boys would have gotten a kick out of that if I did it! Did your children fall for it?

FG, that stinks you got snowed on, I hope it warms up for you!

 

[Elmorton]

Oh dear...we''re going to go look at a house for the first time. This isn''t a bad sign, is it??

 

[lyra]

I hate April Fool''s. I''m a fool every day of the year, and I hate surprises. Bah humbug!

 

[ephemery1]

I'm with Lyra, April Fool's Day does nothing for me. I've always thought there was a very fine line between tricking somebody for your own amusement and being downright cruel for no reason, so I don't even go there at all.

I would, however, fully support a day where we purposely made people feel good about themselves, instead of making them feel like a fool so we can laugh at them! April Empathy Day rather than April Fool's Day, perhaps.

Maybe I'll give it a try.........

ETA -- Can you tell I'm a therapist? I don't do well with the idea of people hurting in any way!

 

[CrookedRock]

Never cared much about April Fools Day. But now it is a celebration for me bc our chocolate lab Jackson turns 2 today! So today is all about him. Doggie park... Doggie Bakery... Doggie walk... Anything doggie!

 

[bee*]

Date: 4/1/2008 10:26:25 AM
Author: lyra
I hate April Fool''s. I''m a fool every day of the year, and I hate surprises. Bah humbug!

I''m the same-I hate April Fool''s day! Just don''t get the point of it!

 

[Nicrez]

How cute Ira!!!

Huge April Fool's Day fan. No one has gotten me in years. Literally. I never take the bait.

Got my sister and mother this morning. I am not a prankster, but it's just such a silly lighthearted way to say it's OK to laugh at ourselves every so often.

It was my father who tried every single year to get us as children. He had as a child instilled in us a deep seeded fear of his phone calls every April 1st. One year to get him back, I did a marvel of a trick. I had school letterhead and envelope, and typed an official note from school signed by the principal (me) letting my parents know that I was expelled. I was always a top student, and propriety was his biggest rule, so it was the IDEAL joke. It was SO good, that it had to be delivered convincingly or the joke was lost.

So, I sealed the envelope, and inked over a stamp and actual postage stamp as if it was real (painstakingly). I opened the envelope and wrinkled it, then hid it in the couch, so as to seem like I was hiding it. A corner was sticking out. When he sat down after dinner to watch his favorite business channel, there it was. I was in my room and I could hear the thunder of his voice when he discovered it. I don't think I was ever more terrified and entertained. It took several minutes of my mother and I trying to persuade him it wasn't real. To this day he LOVES that story and always vows to get me back with the same level of invention. He actually brags to people that it was the most impressive joke he ever had played on him and it had him fooled 100%.

So far, I win!

It's getting harder and harder to get good ones nowadays though...

 

[Independent Gal]

Well, being the dufus I am, I wrote my name wrong on the wedding registry when we got married this weekend, then had to scratch it out and re-write it, so our April fools trick is that we''re phoning our parents to tell them that we heard from the government and our marriage has been annulled because of the mistake.

Hahahaaa! We''ll let them off the hook immediately though. Too mean otherwise.

 

[VegasAngel]

I''m not doing anything specifically for April Fools.

I''m going shopping. I heard on the news that cops will be out in full force today & I am totally due for a ticket, please let this not be the day.

 

[Skippy123]

Date: 4/1/2008 12:17:25 PM
Author: SanDiegoLady
As I was sitting in traffic this morning, I saw this Jeep Cherokee with a weird, weird paint job.. as I got closer I was like, that’s odd paint.. got closer.. someone had put POST IT NOTES all over the vehicle hundreds of them simply covering this car.. Top to bottom, bumper to bumper; starting with yellow, then to orange then pink all round the bottom.. I laughed all the way to work. Now that’s just funny.

Michelle, that is so funny and cleaver. hehe

Ira, you sound like a totally fun dad! My dad was good at April Fools too when we were teens! My sister and I would always pull pranks on each other too; if she wasn''t so busy at work I would try and pull one on her today! I do it to hubby too or he does it to me; we always try to get each other which is so much fun!

 

[Miranda]

My son gets of earlier than I do. When I woke up and came downstairs he told me there was a tsunami alert for our area. This was pre coffee so I fell for it...For a second. When I realized DH was exercising and my other son was upstairs reading I knew he was full of bologna! What a meanie!

 

[LegacyGirl]

Hiding in my office from my coworkers because they are EVIL!!!!!

 

[Dee*Jay]

I was going to post that I was finally ready for another upgrade -- and of course a new custom made setting -- but I figured you guys would hunt me down and beat me!

 

[LegacyGirl]

Date: 4/1/2008 12:12:24 PM
Author: Nicrez
How cute Ira!!!

Huge April Fool''s Day fan. No one has gotten me in years. Literally. I never take the bait.

Got my sister and mother this morning. I am not a prankster, but it''s just such a silly lighthearted way to say it''s OK to laugh at ourselves every so often.

It was my father who tried every single year to get us as children. He had as a child instilled in us a deep seeded fear of his phone calls every April 1st. One year to get him back, I did a marvel of a trick. I had school letterhead and envelope, and typed an official note from school signed by the principal (me) letting my parents know that I was expelled. I was always a top student, and propriety was his biggest rule, so it was the IDEAL joke. It was SO good, that it had to be delivered convincingly or the joke was lost.

So, I sealed the envelope, and inked over a stamp and actual postage stamp as if it was real (painstakingly). I opened the envelope and wrinkled it, then hid it in the couch, so as to seem like I was hiding it. A corner was sticking out. When he sat down after dinner to watch his favorite business channel, there it was. I was in my room and I could hear the thunder of his voice when he discovered it. I don''t think I was ever more terrified and entertained. It took several minutes of my mother and I trying to persuade him it wasn''t real. To this day he LOVES that story and always vows to get me back with the same level of invention. He actually brags to people that it was the most impressive joke he ever had played on him and it had him fooled 100%.

So far, I win!

It''s getting harder and harder to get good ones nowadays though...

That is one of the best I''ve heard!!

 

[Elmorton]

One of my friends has a totally prankster dad - I totally look forward to April Fool''s to find out what he cooked up. One year, he very painstakingly stayed up to coat a bar of soap in his daughters'' clear nail polish so it wouldn''t lather (that''s my hands-down favorite). He even managed to come up with something when he was serving in Iraq (even though she was totally ready for it).

In college, my mom called me on April Fool''s day to tell me that my dad bought her a cadillac. Being very aware of the calendar date (since the aforementioned friend had been on her toes all day), I laughed her off. A few days later, my g-ma called and mentioned that my mom had a pretty nice new car - OOPS, mom was totally telling the truth!

 

[lotsofsparkle]

My fiance actually called me and told me my e-ring setting I''ve been waiting on for the last 4 weeks arrived early (it''s supposed to be here at the end of the week). I of course completely fall for it and get super excited only to hear snickering on the other end...

 

[777_LDY]

Date: 4/1/2008 9:09:24 PM
Author: lotsofsparkle
My fiance actually called me and told me my e-ring setting I''ve been waiting on for the last 4 weeks arrived early (it''s supposed to be here at the end of the week). I of course completely fall for it and get super excited only to hear snickering on the other end...

Oh my goodness, that''s soooo cruel, but I had to laugh, sorry! They just don''t get it do they!

 

[gwendolyn]

I flew across the Atlantic Ocean...? Nothing too tricksy about that, I''m afraid.

 

[baby monster]

I leave the house first in the morning, so I sewed shut the bottom of one leg on bf''s jeans. He didn''t call me during the day at all so I thought he didn''t wear the jeans or didn''t get it. When I came home and started changing into my workout clothes, I found that he sewed the tshirt to the sweatshirt. Very sneaky!

 

[LegacyGirl]

Date: 4/2/2008 1:34:41 PM
Author: baby monster
I leave the house first in the morning, so I sewed shut the bottom of one leg on bf''s jeans. He didn''t call me during the day at all so I thought he didn''t wear the jeans or didn''t get it. When I came home and started changing into my workout clothes, I found that he sewed the tshirt to the sweatshirt. Very sneaky!

Awhahahahahaha!!! My FI would have KILLED me!!

 

[Harriet]

A few people spent the day pranking the Coloured Stones forum.

 

[anniee19]

I couldn''t come up with anything too clever, but since I work at a hospital, I mixed some liquid thickener into my boyfriend''s soda...he wasn''t too impressed!