The April Fool's joke I DIDN'T play on my mother
I chickened out this year. I just don’t have the heart to continue doing this to my mother, year after year.
At least not this year.
After the fake pregnancy, the fake engagement and a coupla other ones I can’t remember, I don’t think my mom deserves the fake DUI.
But I had a fanTASTic plan. Here’s what would’ve happened:
Ben Neff would’ve called from his work phone (a 317 number, which would’ve thrown my 989 mother off the trail) to say that I hadn’t come into work today, and that she was my emergency contact. This would immediately prompt a call to my cell phone (which would be off). I’d wait 30, 40 minutes before calling from a 317 number she wouldn’t recognize … and cry about how I was in jail after a DUI.
And, like all my other April Fool’s jokes, I’d immediately give it up when she started crying/fainting/hyperventilating/screaming.
All of those things just didn’t seem like something I wanted to deal with today, but it was worth the loving thought, eh?
joe.shearer : RE: The April Fool's joke I DIDN'T play on my mother More..
I’ve always thought April Fool’s Day jokes have to be more innocuous and off-putting than anything. My favorite one was the one I played on my wife shortly after we got a new car, which she was adamant that she drive. I finally talked her into letting me drive it (it was a 97 Grand Prix, which I think we bought in 2001), coincidentally on April Fool’s Day. I went to the Qdoba on Indiana Ave. and parked next to a motorcycle, and I had the proverbial epiphany, and I knew what I had to do.
After lunch I called her and told her that the motorcycle next to our new car fell over on the car and smashed a hole in the door. When she asked if I got the insurance information from the guy, I told her that I waited around for about 10 minutes but the guy never showed, so I just left.
She FREAKED, and of course I gave it right up. I couldn’t help but start laughing.
But if you’re not careful pranks like that can backfire. Last year on April Fool’s Day my wife told her parents she was pregnant with our third child, which brought that wave of emotion, and it backfired, because when she told the truth, they were disappointed.
Of course, karma came back to bite us, as a month later we found out we were unexpectedly expecting (after we insisted on being done after two kids, and having to resort to fertility drugs to get each of them). Of course, little Mason is a great joy in our life, but he’s also been the terror the other two were not, especially with his night-time habits.
Amy,
As you said after several years of your April Fools jokes, I was FINALLY going to out smart my very smart daughter. Last night I taped huge notes all over the house as a reminder of today. I put one on the bathroom mirror, then one on the kitchen counter, the back door leading to the garage, my purse & the steering wheel. Your Dad was so funny, when he got out of the shower & came downstairs last night, the first thing he said is “I don’t get it” I told him it wasn’t for him. It has taken me several years & several (not very funny) April Fool’s jokes but next time you call I will be ready.
I love you anyway!
Mom
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