Tell us about your best April Fool in real life.

None of this web stuff, now, a REAL LIFE April Fool.

I'll start. Last year I very calmly went into my boss's office, closed the door, and solemnly informed her that I'd need to be making some changes in my life as I was pregnant. That I was thinking about cutting down to a four day work week, etc., and I'd be glad for her support. Very serious and solemn, her eyes got really big, and she was nodding and being very supportive and congratulatory. And then I just busted a gut laughing and said, APRIL FOOL!

I wasn't. We still laugh about this.( we are married for many years now) Most effective April fools ever.

1. I arrived at school a bit early and stood around by the lockers until some other students who were in my first-hour English class walked by. "Guess what," I said, "We've got (name of the most hated substitute teacher) for English today."

They all started groaning as they walked toward our classroom, only to find amiable Mr. M, our regular teacher, at his desk as usual.

2. My family took a spring trip South when I was in eighth grade, and on that leg of the trip, no one else seemed to have taken notice of the date. As we drove through a mountainous part of Tennesee, I suddenly gasped and said, "Look at all those deer in the woods!" Everyone else turned to look, but of course, there were no deer.

For some reason, I have been unable to manage that casual, straight-faced approach to April Fool's Day since then.

Six years later, I still love him just as much as when we first met.

seven (count'em 7!) teenagers. April 1st fell on a Tuesday that year. That morning I got up and couldn't stand the total chaos of the campsite. Swimming suits hung over every available space, dirty dishes from last night's talk fest, sleeping bags, blankets, pillows scattered everywhere. Dirty clothes just left lying around. You get the picture with seven (7!) teenagers. And I'm a person who likes a little order in my madness (and it was madness to take teenagers camping during Spring Break).

I woke all of the kids up and told them that there had been an serious outbreak of violence overnight with some Spring Breakers in Panama City and Orlando, that a crowd of people had gotten totally out of control. And the governor had closed the state to tourists for the rest of the Spring Break season for safety reasons. Said there was considerable property damage and injuries and we had to leave immediately. We had until noon to get on the road home before the State Police started cracking down on violators. We had to get stuff packed up, straightened up and get moving before we get fined (or worse - let that hang heavy in the air, what could be worse?). Those kids kicked into high gear (after considerable griping about losing their week of sun and fun) and got the campsite immediately in order. They washed dishes so we wouldn't have to deal with them once we got home, policed the site, rounded up the dirty clothes, folded sleeping bags, blankets, stowed them away and in short order we were nice and tidy again.

Once that once done I calming looked at the little boogers and said, "April Fool's!" For a second they just couldn't get what I was saying and it took them totally by surprise. We have laughed and laughed over that - they bought it hook, line and sinker that a governor of a state that depends on tourism would close down the state. One interesting side benefit - once they realized how quickly they got things cleaned up we didn't have any problems with too big a mess the rest of the week. Had a great time. Just don't want to take seven (7!) teenagers camping ever again.

I'm looking for a really good trick to pull on the grandkids today. Have racked my mind and so far nothing comes to mind. Have to get them good.

All of mine were way too mean, so I won't cite them here, out of sheer embarrassment.

Good to hear someone put one to good use!

and that it had been totalled. I was working two jobs at this point in time, was really exhausted and it hadn't crossed my mind all day that it was April 1.

I burst into tears and started running outside to see the damage. He followed me to tell me it was a joke. I was so upset thinking that I'd lost my car, I got a nosebleed (this happens to me when I get upset.):nopity:

:hug:

Did you laugh about it after wards?

I was really embarrassed, though. :)

my younger brother got up early and put
marbles in the Cheerios.

#1 - While living in Sydney as a kid a local entrepreneur covered a barge with white plastic and shaving cream foam -- hid it outside of Sydney Harbor the night before April Fool - then had it towed in through the heads the next morning at daybreak and claimed he had brought an iceberg back from the Antarctic. It was really, really stupid -- but he had 100's of employees calling local radio stations and pretty much the entire city was fooled.

See: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/28/1048653853668.html

#2 - While working in the dot.com era I worked for a company called, "marchFIRST" (Ironically(?) the day we were founded). As a joke, one of our competitors copied our website and launched a spoof equivalent, on April 1st. They copied all our content, style sheets, the whole shebang ... then registered the domain 'aprilfirst.tv'... and on April Fool ... launched one of the funnier "high tech" pranks.

The second one's pretty good too. Companies can do some fun stuff, eh? Remember the Taco Bell April fool ad?

which I had nothing to do with, but it freaked most everyone out! I was flabbergasted by the claims made in the article.

The first letter of every word of the subtitle spelled out "April Fools". LTTE the next week or so were scathing!

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