…just about every day is April Fool’s Day where I work, but maybe I’ve just gotten acclimated to being tricked. We have a couple of zany pranksters on the staff who are fond of that old form of April Fool’s “joke” that I’ve never understood. Maybe you’re familiar with this hilarious, knee-slapping joke. See, what they do is, they come up to someone who trusts them, and then they tell that person a reasonable, perfectly believable and usually horrible thing, that isn’t true. And then the stupid idiot believes it and reacts with shock and horror! Isn’t that hilarious?
(furrowed brow) “Hey, Jim. Did you hear about Shari?”
“Shari? No. What about Shari?”
“She… she just got back from the oncologist. They found a tumor in her lung.”
“Oh my God. That’s awful! She has two small children! And she just quit smoking like two weeks ago…! That’s the worst thing I’ve ever heard. I’m going to go kill myself.”
“Ha ha ha ha ha ha! APRIL FOOLS! HA HA HA HA HA HA!”
“Wha… oh! HA ha ha ha ha! You guys! Ha ha! I get it. You violated my trust! That’s hysterical. Ha ha ha! That’ll teach me to form relationships with other humans! You scamps! Ha ha ha!” (punch)
-jimski.net, April 1999
