ah, the ultimate day of the year for the jokers out there! the day of the year that you can lie through your teeth as long as you finalize your conversation with, “april fools!” fantastic!
my step mom sal tries to get me every year. she has in past years only because she practices the number one rule in pulling off april fool’s gags… you gotta get ‘em early. catch them off guard. people are still unsuspecting until you get busted the first time.
i pulled off or helped pull off a few good ones today. first and foremost, i appreciate all of you that expressed concern and sadness toward my declared exodus back above the mason-dixon line. i posted in the status of both my facebook and myspace pages that i had enough and that i was moving back to pennsylvania. april fool’s my friends. i am not going anywhere. the CLT cannot get rid of me that easily and like one friend said, i still have a lot to do in this town…
i got a few co-workers with the quick hit by walking in their office/cubicle and telling them that it was nice working with them, but this was going to be my last day. a few priceless looks came from that one…
but the best one of the day was a coordinated effort with my buddy brian tuthill at work. my friend sherron is more than just a little gullible and i love her to pieces for it. b-hill and i discussed it all last night and coordinated a quick plan. we seriously came up with this idea in about five minutes. i had to take the MINI into the shop this morning to get the dent taken out of the front fender, but sherron didn’t know that, so that left us a perfect opening for a crazy reason for why i was not at work.
i set the alarm on my phone to call b-hill around 715am. the message, paraphrased, went something like this…
“hey there brian. i am not even sure how to go about this. this is so freaking embarassing. i need your help. i cannot call my family. i cannot call any of my other friends. my god, this is so embarassing. i was driving back from the bar last night after having a few and i saw this girl that i thought was in distress on the side of the road. i picked her up and next thing i know there are cop cars everywhere. i don’t remember discussing anything about price, but they are charging me with soliciting a prostitute. i have been here all night. i just need your help getting bail and keeping this quiet at the office. god this embarassing. help me out if you can brian…”
i had the shaky voice and everything. it was a good performance if i do say so. so brian plays this for sherron telling her he got it this morning. she doubts the authenticity of the call, but he immediately comes right back over the top with, “i called the courthouse and am going down to get him at 930 since they impounded his car.” the awesome part was that b-hill had a dentist appointment at 930 that he HAD to leave for.
she bought it. hook, line, and sinker. she even came into his cube a few times to talk to B about how crazy it was and how worried she was. so when i got into the office a few minutes before B did from his dentist appointment, i tried to lay low. she asked where i was and i old her that i wasn’t allowed to talk about the case.
when we finally let the cat out of the bag, she was floored. absolutely hysterical. best april fool’s i have participated in in a long time…