April Fools Day is coming up. What stories do you have? Done by you, or done to you?

[Lil Missy]

When we were kids, my brothers and I would use food dye to things in the fridge. Like blue milk, green cottage cheese, you get the idea. Drove her nuts, LOL!

A couple years ago, my ex an I stood around the corner with a remote, and kept changing channels on mom's TV. She was baffled; kept changing back to her channel, and eventually started checking the hookups and cable wiring. When we couldn't hold the laughter in anymore, she finally caught us. ROTFLOL!

At work, well that allows new and improved possibilities! After I came out as gay, I announced one year that I was pregnant. Baffled the shit out of several people for a while.

:rofl: :rofl:

Some things done to me at work over the years:

Put lotion inside the phone handle, then call me. So I pick up the phone and gross out at what the hell is this greasy goopy shit all over my finger now? YUK!

Turned my dictaphone on speaker and LOUD, so when I went to do some dictation it screamed loudly all over the office.

Plugged one of my links into a program that went full blast saying, "HEY EVERYBODY, I'M WATCHING PORNO OVER HERE!" when I clicked on it. The volume itself 'bout made me fly outta my chair! Scared the piss outta me!

I date stamped the tape on my best friends' calculator once. I just figured she knew it was a joke and I'd stopped by to say hi. She had the managers and half the office excited about getting a date stamp, and all of them figuring out how she did that. LOL! Boy, was she ever pissed at me!

:rofl:

What are your stories?

:D

[Blue Diadem]

1. Our granddaughter put one of her elastic pony tail holders

on the kitchen sprayer to hold the handle in. She thought she'd get me, instead she got grandpa! :rofl:

She turned the sprayer so it didn't spray directly on him, but water sure went shooting across the kitchen.

[SacredCow]

7. Similar to mine, downthread!

Basically the same, but we always aimed for the person!

[Blue Diadem]

12. I'm not sure if the sprayer just turned that way or if she turned it.

I thought it was pretty clever for an 8 yr old. She went to school that morning so happy that it was April Fool's day, it took us 1/2 hr or so before we realized why.

Funny, my husband wanted to know if I had done it. :rofl: Nah, I would have made sure it got him!

[no name no slogan]

2. Planning, at work

I administer an intranet and a couple web sites for my employer. My cohorts and I have jokingly thought about re-orienting the intranet so that it's at a 90° angle-- you would have to tilt your head sideways to do it.

We have an idea on how to do it, but we don't think we'd get away with it (we work in government, and you've not yet a more humorless creature than the angry bureaucrat). Still it would be funny, for an hour or so.

[lunatica]

5. you could type in a space on the home page link and screw up the entire site

Then be the big hero of the day by doing some heavy duty relaxing while supposedly troubleshooting the entire site. Then you're the office hero when you 'correct' it by deleting the space.

[SacredCow]

8. The only computer one we ever did...

WAY back in the day of Windows 3.1 I believe was to change all of the screen colors (text, background, etc...) to white. It was a bitch for them to figure out what was wrong and how to fix it, IIRC.

[no name no slogan]

10. My CSS 2.0 is a bit rusty, but

there may be a way we can put a couple lines of code that would do the trick. I need to do some research on it, but I think in theory it's possible.

That's what I get for not spending enough time designing pages over the past few years. I've forgotten how half the stuff works.

[hatredisnotavalue]

3. My best one....

My friend owned a radio station here in Maine and about a week before April 1 he started doing psa's about the giant AFD parade on April 1 at 11 am in the neighboring town of 100. This town did not have a post office let alone a store or school. He got a bit over zealous about the whole thing and kept building it up each day until it was obviously unbelievable. The parade was to last two hours, have 100 marching bands from all over the country and appearances by guest celebrities (I seem to remember Tom Brokaw was one of them, but there were a lot of made up names too)

So April 1 arrives and he takes a ride over to said town at 11 am and there is bedlam. Hundreds of cars are lined up on the parade route.

I do really feel bad about the number of people who fell for the prank...but still it lives on in infamy as one of the best APD ever in this part of the woods.

[lunatica]

4. I get the same one every year and I fall for it every time. I get paid

[SacredCow]

6. My favorite:

Is a kitchen faucet trick. Take some black electrical tape and tape the handle of the sprayer down (or white tape if the sprayer happens to be white. If it's one of the newer, sprayer/nozzle combos, this won't work). Face the sprayer to point to where one would be standing when turning on the faucet.

The best part about this trick is, for some reason, most people- after being sprayed with water- try to turn the faucet on again (thinking it was some strange force of nature or something).

[Lil Missy]

9. LOL! That's a good one! But I'm the only one who uses that sprayer, when I dye my hair.

So it wouldn't work on my mother. And she'd probaly kill me anyway. LOL!

[Lil Missy]

11. Oh! Great one by a radio station years ago! World Series plays at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha.

This radio announcer advised that the World Series was going to move to Alaska from now on.

OMG! What an uproar! Baseball fans were ready to riot in the streets! Gawd that was funny, LOL!

[ogneopasno]

13. The night before,

I fill up the cereal bowls with milk and put them in the freezer. In the morning I put a layer of cereal on the frozen milk, a splash of "regular" milk to make it look real, and serve breakfast to the kids. For some reason they find this hilarious.

[Lil Missy]

14. Reminds me, my sister and I tricked our grandpa once.

At the end of the driveway, he'd turn right to park on some dirt place.

We dug a hole where his tires would go, and sealed the hole with mud packs so it would hold water. We filled up the holes with water, then covered them with dirt and leaves.

He pulled in, and got stuck. He was so goddamned mad at us, ROFLOL! But he was a soft touch to his grand daughters, and he'd melt at the sight of us. He was pretty ornery too, so we got it from him!

We'd also shoot him with water squirt guns through the screen door, while he was parked in his favorite chair. He'd go flying! LOL! I think he just figured karma came back to bite him in the ass. His grand daughters could do no harm as far as he was concerned. Now the boys, they'd be in deep shit!

I sure miss that old coot.

[davsand]

15. We got married on April Fool's Day.

I swear to you there were people AT THAT WEDDING who thought it was an elaborate prank. I'm talking a church and minister--a cake--the whole deal, and there were people who thought we were pranking them.

Several years later one of my friends told me they were convinced at the time it was a hoax that kev and I were pulling, and that they were still not sure even AFTER the ceremony.

It was very much a real wedding--we are still married after 14 years--but it may well have been one of the best pranks we ever pulled off because people THOUGHT they were getting pranked when they weren't.


Laura

[hobbit709]

17. We got married on April 1 too.

We always said we'd be fools to get married. The other option was Halloween, but we didn't want to wait that long.
We called it the Jerry Garcia Memorial Wedding and everyone had to wear tie-dye.

[Lil Missy]

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[Archae]

18. I pulled a dandy on my former neighbor.

When she was living next door to me.

Using a plot line from "MASH," where BJ pranks Hawkeye by doing nothing, but it reduces Hawkeye to a gibbering paranoid behind barb wire, I went through the whole day with my neighbor, doing absolutely nothing.

I had told her I was going to really "get her" that April 1rst.

She was also reduced to a paranoid.

Next day, I explained it, I swear my neighbor looked like she wanted to dig a hole in the back yard and crawl in. :rofl:

[AwakeAtLast]

19. My aunt's mother turns 104 on April 1st

She always said she was the best April Fool's prank ever played on her mother!