Tell me about your most memorable April Fool's Day or how you feel about the day.

-- Anonymous, April 01, 2000

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The only time I was successful at pulling off something for April Fools Day was in my first year of college. I called my parents at 12:05 am, woke them up and told my dad I'd been caught having sex in a restaurant with some guy and had been arrested. I told him I needed to be bailed out. There was total silence on the other end. Then he said "I'll be right there" and hung up before I could tell him it was a joke. When I tried to call him back, the line was busy and I couldn't get through. I tried for an hour, unsuccessfully. Finally, some time later, I got through. My mother picked up and yelled, in a panic, "Where are you? Your father has been calling every police station and you aren't at any of them! They don't know of anyone being arrested for lewd acts in public." Ughh. I couldn't believe it! My dad had been calling and asking for his daughter that had been arrested for screwing a guy in public! I had to tell my mom that it was a prank, before my dad called another dozen stations! I heard her trying not to laugh, and then handing the phone to my dad while she lost it and began howling. My father was not pleased because he was very well known by the police. Many of them were his friends. That knew me. That came to our home for parties, dinner...with their wives and kids. When I told him it was an April Fools Day joke, he made this grunting noise and then sat in silence...waiting...waiting...waiting...for my apology. I wanted to get off the line as quickly as possible so it was like this: I'msorrydaddyI'mreallyreallysorrydaddyIhavetogoloveyakissmomcallyou tomorrowbye! It was months before my mother didn't think of it when she saw me, and laugh. It was several more months before my dad was able to think of it or talk of it without grunting. And giving me a dirty look. I've never tried any pranks since.

I posted this in my journal today. Nice and easy to copy and paste. :)

-- Anonymous, April 01, 2000

Unfortunately, I have yet to pull off the supreme April Fool's joke. The only one I remember doing was putting a ripe bannana in my dad's exhaust pipe. He was so not a happy person. But I do now have a great memory to add to my stock of happy thoughts. My roommate/housemate/employer (I am a permanent housesitter/cat watcher extraordinaire) and her new honey got married yesterday (April 1) and I was able to remind myself how okay it was to be silly. She got married in the old (read just about falling down old building full of dust) Piper's Opera House in Virginia City, NV, which she had filled with fragrant flowers, good food, good wine, humorous friends and relatives, plenty of satin, and centerpieces that consisted of old bottles filled with flowers set inside satin jester's hats that her nieces and nephews were able to take home. Her only party crasher was an orange tabby cat and all through the toast Liz was asking "can we gut the cake now?! NO? -fake sulk-...Can we cut the cake now? No? -fake sulk-... etc. She was too adorable. And perfectly comfortable being silly in front of 100 or so people. And as her program read, quoting Mark Twain, "The first day of April is the day we remeber what we are the other 364 days of the year." ;)

-- Anonymous, April 03, 2000

okay...my typo...Liz is a silly woman, but she never...so much as I am sure, asked to gut the cake. She is quite normal in wanting to cut cakes and other sugary confections. Although it does make for an interesting image.

-- Anonymous, April 03, 2000

The only April Fools Joke that I remember was when I was young...probably about 7 or 8 and my brother who is 6 years older than I am came into my bedroom where I was playing and said REALLY excitedly that Mom and Dad were taking us to Disneyland the very next day! I didn't have to go to school and we were going to spend the day down there and blah blah blah (we lived in Southern Ca. at the time). I got so excited and he let me believe it for a good 2 hours before they got home. Then, he told me "April Fools". I was heartbroken. It was awful! I will never forget that one. :O( --Nicole

-- Anonymous, April 03, 2000