What was your best April Fools Prank?

[WDWHound]

Have you ever pulled a really good April Fools prank. Has someone ever really zinged you on April 1st? Inquiriing minds want to know.

I pulled one of my favorites 14 years ago on Lindsey, a friend of mine who had just been hired at the company I worked for. I had known Lindsey for years, so I thought I'd welcome him to the company with a little April Fools joke.

Back then, everyone ran MS DOS on their computers (Windows was not yet ready for prime time). On April 1st, I arrived early for work, made a minor alteration to the autoexec.bat file on Lindsey's computer and shut it off. When Lindsey arrived and booted his computer, it displaid the message "MEGA FATAL ERROR!, Press any key to try again". Pressing any key simply resulted in the same error message being displayed again.

Poor Lindsey was frantic. He came to me for help, but I told him I had never heard of a mega fatal error and suggested he call the help desk. The folks at the help desk knew something was up from the name of the error, but they were laughing too hard to help him for about five minutes. They finally walked him through booting with a floppy and repairing the autoexec.bat file.

Lindsey was a good sport about the whole thing. We laughed about it a few years ago, just months before he passed away from colon cancer. He always vowed to get even, but never did. I shudder to think of what prank awaits me many years from now (hopefully) in heaven when I finally see him again.

So, have you ever pulled or been the victom of a great April Fools joke?

 

[~*Belle 2003*~]

I've just got off the phone to DH before he leaves the office to come home and told him it looked like our our fridge/freezer had packed up. I was telling him how I was defrosting it and we had better eat all the remains of the fridge as they are now all over the kitchen worktops getting warm.

It was so funny when he said "I heard it make a funny noise, like a small bang last night" - how I kept a serious conversation going I'll never know!

In a couple of hours he will know the truth!

 

[MosMom]

When I was about 15, I put white powder all over my face and stood inside the bathtub so you couldn't see my feet were touching and made it look like I hung myself in the shower. I screamed to get my little brother to walk in and he about had a heart attack.

I also told the same brother that he would have to wear tampons one April Fool's too. He really believed it and later asked my dad where they would go because he thought that might hurt. LOL

My poor brother, it is amazing he is relatively normal today.

 

[Tuffcookie]

This was years ago...Oldest DS and I taped Jeopardy. Therefore we knew all the answers! We used black tape to cover all the lights on the VCR and played the tape at the appropriate time it would normally show. He amazed his dad when he rattled off the answers!!!

TC

 

[goodferry]

When I was little, we lived in a busy city and had to park along the street. My dad had just awoken when I called "Hey dad, somebody slashed the tires on your truck" he ran out on the front porch in his underwear. He will never live it down. To this day, I call him every April Fool's Day and say "hey dad, check your tires"

My mil is a devoted Regis fan. One April 1 morning I called her early, around 8 am and told her that there had been breaking news that Regis had been killed in a bizarre murder-suicide. I figured she would watch the show and figure out I was kidding. Well I didn't realize that she had an insurance agent there at the time, so by the time she got to turn the TV on to see what was going on, Live with Regis and Kathy Lee was on and there were two guest hosts. (I hadn't known about this) She spent the whole day calling everyone she knew trying to figure out what happend to Regis. The next day she called me and said she still hadn't seen anything on the news. I had to tell her then, of course, and she had to call everyone in our town back and tell them the truth.

 

[MosMom]

Originally posted by goodferry
When I was little, we lived in a busy city and had to park along the street. My dad had just awoken when I called "Hey dad, somebody slashed the tires on your truck" he ran out on the front porch in his underwear. He will never live it down. To this day, I call him every April Fool's Day and say "hey dad, check your tires"

My mil is a devoted Regis fan. One April 1 morning I called her early, around 8 am and told her that there had been breaking news that Regis had been killed in a bizarre murder-suicide. I figured she would watch the show and figure out I was kidding. Well I didn't realize that she had an insurance agent there at the time, so by the time she got to turn the TV on to see what was going on, Live with Regis and Kathy Lee was on and there were two guest hosts. (I hadn't known about this) She spent the whole day calling everyone she knew trying to figure out what happend to Regis. The next day she called me and said she still hadn't seen anything on the news. I had to tell her then, of course, and she had to call everyone in our town back and tell them the truth.

Ooooh you're good. The running out in his underwear kills me. LOL

 

[Maleficent13]

My best one was two years ago. I work for a company that had just converted to a new software system. All my employees were complaining constantly about the computers crashing and the software not doing what it was supposed to. For months all we did was fix computer issues. We're a big company that relies on computers for EVERYTHING we do.

So on April 1, I sent an email to all staff saying that upper management had heard their complaints and we were going to get a new system...BUT, in order to stop paying the maintenance fees on the current one, we were deleting it from the servers immediately, and everyone was going back to legal pads, pencils, and typewriters. I even included a request to the office supply person to get me prices on typewriters ASAP and make sure we ordered a few more pencil sharpeners. I told them IS support would be up to collect their PCs by the end of the day.

As unbelievable as it sounds, they all bought it, hook, line and sinker. They roared when I sprang the April Fool's on them. The only problem is, I've never been able to fool them since.

 

[faithinkarma]

I worked in a lab with a bunch of young chemists who enjoyed playing practical jokes on one of the older employees. They once took his phone apart and wired it so that you could only hear out of the speaking end and talk into the hearing end.

Another time they took apart one of the testing machines and put a flashlight behind the on/off indicator light. That way when the machine was turned off at the end of the day, the light still said it was on.

I was young and new, but I knew they deserved some of thier own medicine. The best I could come up with was to sneak into the hallway several times during the day until I had managed to completely sew up the insides of the sleeves on their jackets.

 

[momm2four]

These are all good! I really like the Jeopardy one. That's creative!

Lori P.

 

[ericamanda01]

Just this morning I set all the clocks ahead 3 hours. When my dear, sweet DH-2-be woke up he asked me if the time was right. I said yes but I thought he only had a half day, that's why I didn't wake him up. Even though I knew he was to meet the president of his company today. As he was running into the bathroom, swearing up a storm, I asked if he was alright. He was jumping into his clothes staring at me and asking why I was laughing. When I broke the news to him he just smiled and vowed to get me back!

 

[kadaten]

Well, someone pulled one on my dad once, but it wasn't that funny.

He did a lot of handyman work in the evenings after his regular job. He had a lot of tools in his car and would usually park at the back door of a business so he could go in and out to get the things he needed for the job. Well, one April 1st he calls my mom telling her she has to come get him from the restaurant where he was working.....because someone stole his car. He said he parked at the back door as usual, but left the keys in it, and when he came out to get a tool, it was gone. Well, this was late in the day and LOTS of pranks had been pulled by all, so my mom says "yeah, right, I'm not falling for that one. see you at home tonight." Welllllllll.....turns out the joke was on my dad, not mom...and he was telling the truth! Someone had stolen his car! A few weeks later it was found, stripped, and missing all the tools (about $5000 worth). Car wasn't all that wonderful to start with, but in the early 80's, that was a LOT of money in tools and dad was, of course, uninsured for them. We don't do many April Fool's jokes anymore....

 

[mkcp91]

One year when I was working in an office, me and a co-worker changed all the clocks ahead one hour during lunch time - the office emptied out during lunch. We changed the phones, the computers and personal clocks on people's desks. We also changed our own clocks and watches.

No one noticed for over an hour! Eventually, we heard someone call out over the cubicle wall, "wow, it's 3 o'clock already" or something like that. Of course, someone with a watch replied, "no, it's only 2 o'clock." Well that started a HUGE debate on what time it was. One person even suggested that the computers had changed time on their own in anticipation of daylight savings time! It was SO hard not to laugh and just call out, "well MY watch says 3 o'clock!" We never did confess - just enjoyed the chaos that ensued! Eventually someone called time and temperature to get the right time.

Not the best April Fool's joke, but it made the afternoon go fast!

~Heather

 

[lulugirl]

This morning I called Dh at work and told him I was pregnant w/ twins!!!! His secretary said he turned white!
I am pregnant but just one baby!

 

[chadfromdallas]

What was your best April Fools Prank?

Told my mom she was a grandmother.

 

[Mishetta]

Anyone who knows me knows that I'm scared to death of any bugs & definitely rodents!! Anyway, I was working in this big factory (in the office area) & we all had cubicles. There had been lots of stories about rats being seen in the building. I became overly cautious & started looking around my cubicle before I'd put my purse down & sat down to work. Well, 2 of the engineers I worked with rigged up a rat on a string & they had it all arranged for my boss to call me into his office at a certain time. So, my boss calls me into his office, I start walking towards his office & suddenly this RAT went right over my feet (it was being pulled by the engineers in the next cubicle). OMG!! I screamed & screamed & screamed with my eyes shut so I didn't see what they had done (wish I had seen all their faces when I started screaming like that!) Anyway, I was turning all red & started to break out in a sweat & the 2 guys came running over to see if I was okay & they were holding that darned RAT! I realized then it was a toy thing & I have to admit, I was really mad for a while but then everytime I thought about it, I had to laugh.

I was quite embarrassed when I looked in the general bay area of the office & absolutely everyone was standing up looking at me. Some people were even standing on their desks to find out why this crazy secretary was screaming holy murder!