April Fool(s Day)

Originally published at iam.anewlis. You can comment here or there.

Many, many moons ago, I, along with my sister, decided to play a practical joke on my mother.  I positioned myself all twisted and skewed, on the stairs in front of our house.  My sister then, ran to the door and called out to my mother 'mom, Lisa fell'.  My mom, as you might imagine, was horrified when she saw me.    I continued to lie there listening to her yell for help.  I was then embarrassed AND scared to move and let her know that I was fine.  But I also knew this was only going to get worse if I stayed there.  So I got up and let her know it was 'only an april fools joke'.  I looked at the panic AND relief on her face and felt absolutely horrible!  All she could do was go back into the house.

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I was working at a small company where everyone basically new each other.  I had been there a few years so was extremely comfortable with everyone and would often move away from my desk without locking my computer.  Upon returning on this day, one of my co-workers, a manager in operations came into my office behind me.  He said 'I didn't realize you felt that way'.  I'm wondering what he's talking about, but since his demeanor was pleasant I didn't think to much about it.  Then he asked if I was interested in going out.  Uhm... huh?   Mind you, I'm married, and even if I weren't, I wasn't interested and had never acted in any way that would make him think so.  That was when the Director of Operations walked by, with a stupid smile on his face.  He asked the manager to excuse us and then proceeded to tell me that he had sent an email from my computer, from me, to home dude telling him that I liked him.  Wow.

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I looked up 'April Fool's Day' on  Wikipedia then decided I didn't care?  Practical jokes can hurt people.  And that is the last thing I want to purposefully do.