The good news is...it’s April 1st!
The bad news is...it’s April 1st….
Which means it’s also April Fool’s Day…the day when all the fools come out and try to fool you…and me, which isn’t that much of a big deal since I get fooled every morning when I get out of bed.
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“You mean this isn’t a dream???”
Some of you, for whatever reason—a wayward upbringing, I suppose—actually love to play practical jokes on people.
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Like the time my friend Joey told me that pants weren’t allowed in school anymore and we all had to wear navy blue jumpers like the girls.
Of course I wasn’t that dumb, not yet, anyway, and I immediately figured out that Joey was pulling my leg because the girls had stopped wearing navy blue jumpers and switched to plaid skirts the year before.
So I didn’t look that out of place….
I don’t know…I just don’t understand the concept of making someone else look stupid, just for my own amusement.
Why would I want to go to all that plotting and planning, when I can make myself look stupid anytime I want...with very little effort?
Not that I haven’t tried to pull off a good April Fool’s, myself, on occasion.
Like the time I called the fire department and told them I accidently set the cat on fire, while I was ironing the kinks out of its tail.
That wasn’t appreciated by the fire department at all…let alone the cat.
But I did get a big howl out of the dog.
And of course the time I covered my cousin with mustard and told everyone his liver had failed was a classic!
And my Aunt recovered within the month.
It’s just an odd concept...April Fool's.
I tried to look up some info on the origins of all this April Foolishness but, unfortunately, I didn't have much success. The history is pretty sketchy and speculative at best. Something to do with….
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