April Fool's Day , Past, Present & Future stories, but no mean one's please.

[OhMari]

It was an especially cold snowy year in WI. I had the job to wake up my son to shovel at 6:00. I walked in his room and looked out his window and said, "Oh No, it snowed, you have to get up and shovel.

He sprang out of bed and said "No way", yesterday it was 50 degrees. He looked outside and went mom,

Happy fools Day!

and yes he went back to sleep for an hour.

 

[Val]

I am a college professor....unfortunately I do not have classes tomorrow (all lab all day) or I would be having fun...but, in the past I have walked into class with a stack of (old) exams and announced that today was the test. Go to start passing them out.....Just the look on the faces of a couple hundred faces is priceless!

 

[msdznyduck]

Where DH used to work, there was a pond.(Picture corporate building, pond, flowers, etc) Jokingly once he said maybe he would take his fishing rod to work one day, and fish during lunch. I told him I didn't think they would appreciate that. April 1st he gets his friend from work to call me at my work, and say he was calling from the police dept from the town he worked in. He supposedly was arrested for trespassing, fishing without a licence, resisting arrest. I would need to come right away with $500 for his bail money, so he could get out of jail. I fell for it completely....."but I don't have that much money in my purse, I have to go to the bank" (No ATM's at that time) I had to go to my supervisor and tell her almost the whole thing, so I could leave work right away to go to the bank and bail out my husband.(If you knew my DH, he is the most honest, law abiding person I know.) I was almost out the door, when the person that I had to get to cover my desk, called that I had a phone call.......it was them.........laughing their heads off.......Boy, did he get me good.
Then I had to go and explain, it was just a joke, etc.
ELaine

 

[RUDisney]

My network administrator wrote a program that made it seem to the person who hit the button that they had crashed the file server. It told them that in order to abort the format of the server's root drive, they'd have to hit 1, to continue, hit 2. Of course they'd select 1 and it said, "you have selected to continue with format. To escape, hold down both control keys on your keyboard." The theory behind this was to have them use both hands to do this since most hands aren't big enough to do that with only one hand. He programmed it to then claim to delete everyone's home directory. When it got to my boss' name, it paused... to make it seem like he had alot saved that was being deleted. At the end, it was supposed to come up and say, "Happy April Fool's Day!"

We had it all planned out. He went to another branch office. I went to our comptroller's office to hide. We changed the program path on an icon that we knew that one of my coworkers would go into every morning. She was having a panic attack that she just screwed up the server. She sent people looking for me.... but, the best part was that she escaped out of the file before it said it was a joke. When I found that out, I had the auditor and comptroller call her office to look for me. They told her that they couldn't login on the network. More panic.

I finally return to my office and slam the door so she'd know that I was back. The network administrator called me when she walked in. I played it like she was having a major catastrophe. Best thing was that it was also Good Friday and the bank was closing at noon. I told her that it looked like we wouldn't be going home early that day.

I went back to her office so she could show me what happened. It ran through the whole program again... even deleted the previously deleted home directories. I made sure she wouldn't hit any extra keys at the end, and she saw that we had played a major joke on her.

That is my best April Fool's prank.

 

[Kitty 34]

I've played many over the years. Tomorrow I have written on the board for my 7th graders, an Adjectives Test after they get done reading. They will absolutely panic!!!

 

[Disneyland_emily]

Well Ive been banned from playing April Fools jokes but Ive had some good ones in the past...

I go for inconvienance rather than mean- Course one may have gone a little too far but *If* Id known.... I decided to hide all the left shoes in the house- So after everyone was asleep I went and rounded them all up and hid them- Flash forward to the next morning- I had left early due to class (yes with both shoes on) didnt think much about it-- Well later that night I got a huge mouthful (and my banning) because well my husband hadnt told me of his rather huge business meeting that morning- He was soo mad he had to go to the store wearing 2 different shoes (same feet though) and buy himself a pair of shoes for the meeting...

Course he sent the kids to grandmas without any shoes that day...

Anywhoot I thought it was a laugh Then there was the time I sent my sister on the 7 hour goose chase all throughout the state of utah....

-em

 

[chichihoney]

i tricked my mom and dad

i gave dad a fake parking ticket wth the city police department

i gave mom a fake irs but it has internal prank services wit fake address

 

[RUDisney]

Since I'm the only person who is awake in my house now... yes, it's only 9:30... you really made me think about gathering up the shoes.... but, alas, we are a shoe type of family and I don't know where I could hide so many of them. Good trick, though!

 

[CdnDisneyNut]

While in high school our englisg techer liked his classroon nice and neat (desks all in straight rows). Before the teacher got in the classroom we turned all the desks arround (student desks facing the back and the teachers desk facing the blackboard) When he came in he did not say a word and taught the whole class the way we left it.

 

[Mimi Q]

My MIL told my DH his girlfriend was pregnant when he was a teenager. Didn't work that well though cause he knew it wouldn't be his if she was.

 

[Serena]

LOL, my worst one was NOT telling my oldest daughter it was April Fool's day. I didn't tell her until bedtime. She still has not forgiven me for that one.

 

[Stepharoonie!]

I gave one of my old friends a "fake" scratch off lotto ticket. I came into his work with 4 tickets....3 real, 1 fake...and said, "Here. Take these two. Whatever you win is yours."

So, he starts scratching them. Nothing on the first ticket.

On the second ticket, he scratches off the first box. "Ooh. 5 million dollars."

He scratches the second one. "Ooh another 5 million dollars."

He scratches off the third and just stands there. And stands there. And stands there. His hands start to shake. His eyes were HUGE. He starts shaking all over at this point of time when I ask him what the problem is.

"I WON 5 MILLION DOLLARS. OH. MY. GOD. IJUSTWON5MILLIONDOLLARS!!!! 5MILLIONDOLLARS!! AHHH!!"

He is now literally running around the store screaming this. He starts to name off everything he could pay off (ooh...I felt kinda bad when he did this) and everything that he was going to buy. He asked me how to claim the money, and I told him I guess he'd have to read the back of the ticket. So, he turns it over, and excitedly reads:

"Number one, fill out the back of this card. Number two, fill out an envelope to such and such address. Number three, call your mom and tell her what a sucker you are. Number fou....wait. What?"

I started laughing, yelled, "APRIL FOOL'S!" and he tore the ticket up in disgust, threw it at me, and told me to leave. He didn't talk to me for 2 or 3 days, but everytime I saw him after that I'd screech, "5 MILLION DOLLARS!!"

 

[Jolie C]

Holy cow, Stepharoonie! You are a hard core April Fooler!

 

[cati]

I go for inconvienance rather than mean- Course one may have gone a little too far but *If* Id known.... I decided to hide all the left shoes in the house- So after everyone was asleep I went and rounded them all up and hid them- Flash forward to the next morning- I had left early due to class (yes with both shoes on) didnt think much about it-- Well later that night I got a huge mouthful (and my banning) because well my husband hadnt told me of his rather huge business meeting that morning- He was soo mad he had to go to the store wearing 2 different shoes (same feet though) and buy himself a pair of shoes for the meeting...


I laughed soooo hard I cried. That is the best joke I have ever heard. I can just imagine your husband's face. My DH thought it was pretty good too. Thanks for sharing.

 

[my3kids]

My husband always complains about the quality of the local paper. One April Fool's Day I saved the paper, wrapping it in plastic wrap so it wouldn't yellow. Next year, I put it out on the table for him, just like I always did with the morning's news. He picks it up, starts reading....looks extremely disgusted with the paper. Pulls up each section getting more and more irritated. I cracked up and started laughing so hard he realized what I did.

This morning I think I'll glue my children's juice glasses to the table.

 

[my3kids]

You have inspired me. I just went in and poured the OJ into another container and hid it. I mixed water with yellow and a tiny bit of red food coloring and put it in the OJ jug. I decided it looked too watery so I added a tiny bit of milk it make it more opaque. Oh goodness, my boys won't like their juice this morning!

 

[BedKnobbery2]

No good prank stories, but today is my youngest son's birthday, and a friend of mine swears she will NEVER let me or him forget it's all my fault! I was 3 weeks overdue with him when my doc finally decided it was time to induce me....April 1 was the first day they could get me in the hospital, and I jumped at the chance! I could've waited another day, but nope--I wanted that baby born!
At least it is always easy to remember his birth date!

 

[wishuponastarforever]

One year I brought a fake arm to work. I put it in the microwave and waited for someone to warm their coffee. A few hours later, I had the expected reaction. Everyone thought it was funny.

Later, that day the joke backfired on me. I had put the arm in my drawer to take home later. I had forgotten about the arm being there and when I opened the drawer, I was the one who screamed.

Everyone enjoyed that much better.

 

[Pooh_Friend#1]

In elementary school, I had the same class and the same teacher for 5th and 6th grade. In 6th grade we had really gotten to know the teacher and we talked the Janitor into hiding all of the students desks and we greased his desk. Thank goodness he had a great sense of humor. When it first happened he seemed upset until he realized it was April Fools Day and he laughed it off. Not to worry, he got us all back later that day.

 

[Harley Chick]

Last year we told our supervisor that a customer had called and was irate and he had to call her right away at the number she left. He called and asked for "Myra Mains". The telephone number was for the local mortuary (May I please speak to my remains?) It was too funny.