24 Responses to “Fool Me Once…”

1. When they were in elementary school my children loved playing April fool’s jokes on me. They did everything from screaming that someone was hurt to telling me they were failing a class in school. They loved to watch my face and then they would yell, “April fool’s!”

   by Maureen on April 1st, 2006 at 6:59 am
   
   

2. Hi,
   When I was a junoir in HS I was a cheerleader. Anyway, I was practicing in our basement and I did a round off right into our piano and managed to only break two toes!! This took place on March 31, the next evening, April 1 was the “Sports Banquet” where all the atheletes etc… get their awards. I came limping in everyone thought it was a big joke!! Unfortunately , the joke was on me!

   by Laurie on April 1st, 2006 at 7:12 am
   
   

3. Hi,

   I read something today on AOL news and I was quite surprise, because I forgot it’s April Fool’s day.

   Here in Germany the birthrate is decreasing drastically. The news headline was that the family ministry decided to increase the price of condoms ten times, so that the Germans won’t become an endangered species.

   by Danny on April 1st, 2006 at 7:54 am
   
   

4. My local country radio station played a contest that you had to call in and say who was singing the song and name the artist after they played a couple seconds of the song. Well, the station dragged the contest on and on all morning and acted like they still didn’t have a winner when the song was really EASY (it was a Garth Brooks song). Sadly, I was one of the callers who tried to get through all morning to tell them my guess…and then 3 hours later they said April Fools. The contest was fake and they thought they were really funny. I had forgotton that it was April 1 and so from now on I don’t believe anything anyone does or says on this date!!:smile:

   by Kathleen on April 1st, 2006 at 8:54 am
   
   

5. Here in North Carolina, they just started offering the lottery this past Wednesday.
   So this morning, my husband went out and bought several scratch off game pieces. He started dancing around the kitchen telling me we won $10,000. I was really getting excited until I looked at the game piece and he said - April Fools Day! I wanted to pour his coffee on his shorts!

   by Sandra M. on April 1st, 2006 at 9:17 am
   
   

6. Happy 4/1 Day.

   Not to me that I can think of. But one of the sales reps in the office was told that paperwork that he submitted was never rec’d for a whole bunch of transactions for a particular day. They let him stew about it for quite awhile. We do financial planning so there is lots of paperwork and checks involved.

   Poor Guy. They got him good.

   by Pat on April 1st, 2006 at 9:38 am
   
   

7. It is early morning here and the phone rings. My brother tells me that his daughter(my niece) went back into the hospital last night and had her baby around 3 a.m. this morning. I said what was it; he said a boy. My mind is whirling b/c I have this bright pink gift bag filled with ‘girly’ baby items seeing
   she was told in all liklihood that it was a girl(after 2 boys). I say oh, yeah and then it hit me and I say to him ‘that April Fools right?’ and he laughs and says yes.
   *the hospital sent her home last evening b/c she wasn’t progressing enough after they induced her and several hours later she had to go back and she had her baby at 3 a.m. - Haaven Elise… For a split second he sure got me.

   by Robyn on April 1st, 2006 at 9:59 am
   
   

8. When I was a teenager my mom left for work early and it was up to me to wake my brothers and sister. Well one of my little brothers came home and fell asleep a few hours later it was getting dark outside, so I woke him up told him to hurry and get ready for school because he was late. He got all ready and was about to go out the door when I said April fools, it was so funny,at least to the rest of us kids.

   by Dena on April 1st, 2006 at 10:19 am
   
   

9. My brother once put a rubberband on the sprayer attachment to a kitchen sink, so whoever turned the faucet on next would get sprayed in the face. Only he thought my mother would be next, instead my grandmother turned the sink on and got sprayed.

   by Jennifer Yates on April 1st, 2006 at 11:12 am
   
   

10. When I was a little girl my father was always playing April Fool’s tricks on my sister and me . He would make us these outlandish promises and greedy, gullible girls we would fall for them. He really enjoyed seeing us so irritated. We eventually got wise to it and would not fall for it anymore. Our mother helped us play a trick on him one time for April Fool’s Day and that cured him from wanting to play anymore tricks on us. It was a Saturday and we made him believe he was late for work. The look on his face when he realized we fooled him was priceless.

    by Cherie Japp on April 1st, 2006 at 11:20 am
    
    

11. When my first set of step kids were young (8&9), I’d wake them up telling them it had snowed overnight and that sort. But one year, when the April Fool’s thing was going to reverse itself and have them play tricks on me (when they were 10&11 or so) there was the (now infamous) “McDonald’s Monopoly Sweepstakes”. Previous to that, I had been keeping a gameboard, and had kept it at work. (The sweepstakes contest in general is now famous because the big prizes were all directed to friends of the people running the contest, but of course nobody knew that then). I always had one or two of the spare game pieces in my wallet, and that Saturday morning, we were all awake and I was “idly looking through my wallet” and lo, there was a game piece I had put in my wallet I didn’t notice before! We had won a really cool prize! (Not the grand prize of a million dollars, but something like a jetski or something). To make sure, I announced I had to go into work right then (on a Saturday!) and retrieve my game board with the rest of the pieces on it!

    The two kids then dashed off excitedly. My (then) spouse and I put on our clothes and got in the car, not starting it, and we waited. The kids dashed out of the house, now fully dressed, and hurried into the car. I sat there, the car not yet started.

    And waited. The kids hadn’t caught on, but clammored for me to start the car. I paused. I turned around in my seat and looked at them, said, “Why?” and gave them a long, raised eyebrow look. Oh, it wasn’t a stupid, “It’s snowing outside!” quick trick. This one got them good. Their mother and I snickered and laughed, and then had to dodge two very upset children the rest of the day.

    by Walt on April 1st, 2006 at 11:29 am
    
    

12. I’ve been trying to think of something and I honestly don’t remember ever having an April fool’s joke played on me or playing a joke on someone else. hmmm….now I’m wondering exactly why that is. haha!

    by KimW on April 1st, 2006 at 12:28 pm
    
    

13. My local radio station announced that a Beer truck tipped over on the highway shortly after leaving the Busch plant (st. louis) and that to help clean up the mess they were giving away free cases of beer from the truck. I caught on right away that it was an April’s Fool joke but lots of callers called in saying that they couldn’t find the truck. I think the station even kept saying different locations that the truck was located. Listeners had a good laugh at the people trying to locate the free beer:smile::smile:

    by Patricia on April 1st, 2006 at 12:52 pm
    
    

14. Each year in grade school and highschool I think I had at least one teacher try to give a pop quiz or test on April Fool’s Day. At first I thought it was funny but by the time I was in high school it was NOT as funny!!!

    by Maureen on April 1st, 2006 at 12:54 pm
    
    

15. When I was in elementary school my class went for a class trip for a week and as it happend April Fool’s Day was on that week and our guide managed to fool most of us that day, including our bus driver. We even warned him (your wife isn’t calling you, really!), because one of us had been fooled only moments before, but he went to answer the phone, anyway. When the bus driver came back, he said “of course my wife couldn’t have been calling me. She doesn’t even know where I am!”.

    by Minna on April 1st, 2006 at 1:38 pm
    
    

16. A classmate told me a teacher was looking for me and asked me to go to one of the lecture theatres. When I got there, she and a few other classmates jumped out and shouted, “April Fool’s!”

    by Jenny on April 1st, 2006 at 3:50 pm
    
    

17. My oldest, now married, as a child told me there was a spider on my pillow. As I jumped up he said “April Fool’s”!:razz:

    by Joyce on April 1st, 2006 at 4:03 pm
    
    

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    by KIM H on April 1st, 2006 at 4:04 pm
    
    

19. I remember that when I was in grade school my friend brought in a box with a finger in it that was on a piece of cotton. She said she found it! Then I realized that the blood on the finger wat ketchup and that she was sticking her own finger up through the bottom of the box! For a few minutes she had everyone fooled!

    by Carol on April 1st, 2006 at 5:03 pm
    
    

20. When my children were young they would play April fool’s jokes on me. They would say they lost an epensive sweater or damaged a expensive vase at a neighbors house. One time they put a plastic mouse on the floor of my bedroom. I almost had heart failure. I thought it was real.

    by Karen G on April 1st, 2006 at 5:43 pm
    
    

21. There are three of us girl cousins who are the same age. One of the other two was born on April 1st. We always teased her that she was her mother’s April Fool’s joke.

    by Ruby on April 2nd, 2006 at 12:28 am
    
    

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    by KIM H on April 2nd, 2006 at 9:39 pm
    
    

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    by Dena on April 3rd, 2006 at 11:05 am
    
    

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    by Eugene on April 27th, 2006 at 6:33 am