This morning dawned with all the greatness of a really bad April Fool's Day - Mother Nature overnight dropped a couple of inches of the white slushy wet stuff, and it wasn't cream cheese frosting. The boys tried to convince me that it was a snow day and school was cancelled - April Fool's!!
I've never really liked April Fool's day. I've never really liked Hallowe'en either. I think it comes from detesting trickery and not liking deceit. Or else it's because I'm such a perfectionist that I wanted the PERFECT trick and deceit. Or else I'm just a wimp. Take your choice.
The best April Fool's joke I remember - and it wasn't mine - was in middle school when some kid showed up with a bunch of stale mini-marshmellows and put them on the chalkboard ledge, replacing the chalk. When the teacher picked up the mini-marshmellow, it felt like chalk, but didn't write on the board. The teacher went through a couple of "chalk stubs" before realizing the joke.
See - to me, that's clever and no one gets hurt - the perfect April Fool's joke!
Though when I was teaching, I hated April Fool's even more. And Hallowe'en - I never volunteered to supervise the Hallowe'en dance at high school, and they let me get away with it because I supervised more than my fair share the rest of the year. But there was no getting away from April Fool's.
So today my kids tried to fool me several times with the still sleeping joke, the "I can't find my clothes" joke and the "my tummy hurts" joke. Oh wait - none of those were actually tricks... that's our normal morning.
Ah well - the Internet has made April Fool's all that much easier to bear. I can see what the various big sites are doing for their pranks - Google usually has a good one and this year, Groupon trademarked April Fool's. That's kinda cute. But I can watch these from the safety of my own home office, and not have to worry about someone swapping out the sugar for salt in my tea.
Have a good one y'all!
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