<p>Here is an interesting link that gives the history of April Fools Day. The day came about because of the change in the calendar. It is interesting to read about how the "Butt of one’s joke also came from April Fools. </p>
<p>This got me thinking about what April Fools jokes have been played on me. I guess the best one was when I was around seven years old and April Fools was right after Easter. My mom packed a colored egg in my lunch. It was a rain day and we had to eat at our desk. I can still remember cracking the egg on my desk and the egg was raw making a big gooey mess. My mom laughed pretty hard on that one. </p>
<p>My wife cut green paper and used as lettuce in my kids lunch sandwich one year. Any good stories or good ideas for this year?</p>
<p>I remember one year when my kids were young I sewed the top of their shirts shut. Since they went to put them on first thing in the morning they didn’t realize it was April Fool’s Day and were a little disturbed.</p>
<p>My father gave me an ice cream cone with a scoop of ice cream - except, it wasn’t ice cream, it was mashed potatoes. I’m told that my expression was priceless.</p>
<p>My S1 was born at 12:45 am on April 1. The joke is that if he had arrived 46 minutes earlier, he wouldn’t be an April Fool. :D</p>
<p>My D has put saran wrap over the shampoo & bath gel bottles’ openings, then replaced the caps & trimmed off the excess. </p>
<p>She loves doing this & it turns up about every 2 years.</p>
<p>Same D and I were in charge of the snack at a Girl Scout meeting which happened to be Apr 1. We went to the supermarket that sells sushi & got empty sushi trays, chopsticks & foil packets of soy sauce. We also got fruit roll-up tape stuff, and gummy candies that were pliable when warmed.</p>
<p>Then we rolled out the fruit tape to be thin, and we used the gummy things to make wasabi, rice, pink stuff that looked like raw fish, yellow stuff & slivers of green to look like cukes for the Calif rolls. Rolled them all up & placed in the sushi trays and brought to the meeting, announcing we had picked up some sushi for the snack. </p>
<p>It fooled them and they loved it! Especially good were the reactions of the “I don’t like sushi” crowd. They were really upset --until they realized it was candy. </p>
<p>The kids who were used to sushi were giving it funny looks as soon as they saw it — not quite the right colors. But a good appearance.</p>
<p>my oldest daughter put green jello (powdered) in the shower heads so when we turned the water on, green everywhere! She also greased the doorknobs with vaseline , interesting morning!</p>
<p>I had a friend who would take a bite out of her kids’ sandwiches when she packed their lunches on April Fool’s Day. Same mom would stick a strip of toilet paper in the back of the kids’ pants as she hugged them and sent them off. I do not think I could do the toilet paper, but I think my 17-year-old would think the bite out of his sandwich would be funny. Too bad he has spring break this week.</p>
<p>My best April Fools story occured two or three years ago. A friend/co-worker had purchased a mink from someone on eBay and instructed UPS to deliver it here at the school rather than leave it on her front porch. Because my clinic is located next to the office, I see the UPS man when he is here. My friend asked me to call her the minute he arrived with the delivery. Not being able to pass up the opportunity for a good gag, I accepted the package when it arrived, carefully opened it without altering the shipping tag, removed the mink coat, placed it in a locked office, put a dirty coat from the lost-and-found in the box, and called to tell her the package had arrived. Our school receptionist is a great actress so I invited her to take part in the gag. When our friend opened the box, I thought she was going to pass out. She kept saying, “I don’t believe it!”, “I’m going to be sick!”, and “I just got screwed out of $700!” We acted just as shocked as she did, tried to console her, suggested she call the seller, etc. After three or four minutes of this act, I excused myself, went to the locked office, put the mink on and walked back in to the clinic. The look on my friend’s face was priceless! That story is frequently told and we still laugh almost as much as we did that day.</p>
<p>DH uses Scope on a daily basis. When DD was about eight, she poured out the Scope, mixed up some salt water, added some food coloring and laid in wait. That is DH’s favorite April Fools story.</p>
<p>H usually gets me but I got him last year with one I think I got here on CC. I turned the computer screen upside down just by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Down Arrow at the same time. When he sat down to go online, it really threw him! (To undo, press the same keys with the up arrow)</p>
<p>Best April Fools joke in our family was the arrival of my second son. Three weeks early, almost born at the fire station. To this day a close friend cracks up over the fact that she ordered flowers, then canceled them…3 times, because she thought it was an April Fools joke. Ummmm…NOT!!!</p>
<p>What I’m second most proud of in my entire professional career? The April 1st I had every female in my office, sprinkled throughout the day, go into the boss and tell him she was pregnant. About 3:30 he grabbed one of the other men and went across the street to have a beer. This man does not drink. Not ever–before or since.</p>
<p>(The postscript is several weeks later I found out I really was.)</p>
<p>Called my DS on April first when he was a freshman in college. I told him his grandmother had won the lottery. Had him going for a good five minutes before I reminded him of the date I think he had already spent the money he was sure she would give him!</p>
<p>One of my neighbors borrowed a “For Sale” sign from a realtor & put it in her front yard. Her kids first saw the sign when they came home from HS and thought their house was being sold out from under them. Then they remembered the date.</p>
<p>Did anyone ever hear about the famous Swiss spaghetti trees?
<p>The big thing at work is to rearrange keys on peoples keyboards, or tape something to the bottom of a mouse so it doesn’t work. I’m thinking about sneaking into my boyfriends house and putting the top layer of clothes in his drawers inside out. He always grabs whatever is on top and I think it would be hilarious to see if he notices it. :)</p>
I think he had already spent the money he was sure she would give him!</p>