This year is an unusual year, in the fact that Ash Wednesday was on Valentine’s Day, and Easter is on April Fool’s Day. We plan to celebrate Easter AND April Fool’s Day. When I was a child, we lived on a farm. Before breakfast, Daddy would be down by the pasture, feeding the cows. Every single year, we would call for him, and tell him that there was a phone call for him. He would come all the way in from the pasture, and answer the phone as we giggled and giggled. What a patient man he was!
My sister, Toni Wood, seemed to take April Fool’s Day a step or two farther. After we were grown, mind you, she played bad tricks on me. Yes, I fell for it, every time. I’m so gullible! One of her milder tricks happened when we were visiting the farm. I received a phone call from the local florist that I had a bouquet to pick up. Wow! Neat. Well…it was a bunch of dead flowers. Thank you, sweet sister!!!
Another time, we had kept two gentlemen from Japan for a two week stay. On the day they were returning to Japan, I was teaching. I was called out of class to answer the phone. There was a very official sounding man who told me the information had reached him that we were harboring an illegal alien. WHAT? They were going to have to take him to jail, and we might be called in for a trial. Oh. My. Gosh. Then I was told that it was an April Fool’s joke, and it was my sister’s co=worker that she had told to call me. GRRRR.
Once when I was in KC visiting my sister, she told me that they were looking at new houses. She had a pager with her. The real estate person was going to page her when the house was ready for us for viewing. Yes, her husband had had a really good few months, so they wanted a bigger place. As we drove out to the country, she casually said, “Did I mention they have a pool?” No…as I grew green with envy. “Um…there’s also a barn, with horses, and lots of land.” I’m trying not to show how envious I am. Then we approached the house…a very BIG, beautiful house. The realtor’s car was already there, and she was getting out with her briefcase. We went inside and it was beautiful. Spacious and beautifully decorated! As the realtor showed us around, it suddenly clicked to me that the realtor was one of Toni’s good friends that I had seen in her photo album, the night before. I called them out on it, and it was the friend’s house. They had planned this to the hilt!!! They were highly amused. I was highly relieved.
So…it will be April Fool’s this Sunday. What will my sister do to me this year?
What shall I do to her????
What are some of the April Fool’s jokes that you have played on someone? What jokes have been pulled on you?
“Virtue is its own revenge”……E.Y.Harburg (1898-1981)
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