Thursday, April 1, 2010

just a joke? really? then why am i not laughing??

so today . . . is the worst holiday ever. i don't know whose bright idea it was to make up a holiday where the way you celebrated was by lying to other people . . .

i've been trolling facebook today, and i haven't found anyone yet who was the victim of an april fool's joke and enjoyed it. the tricksters sometimes find themselves hilarious, but the victims report feeling anger, sadness, fear, and worst of all . . . momentary joy (until their unexpected happiness is squashed when they learn "it was all just a joke.")

i have played more than one prank in my life--i know this is shocking to all of you except wendy, who has been my victim on occasion--so i'm not against playing jokes. i'm just against playing MEAN jokes. and that seems to be what april fool's jokes have become . . .

it makes me sad.

3 comments:

Al said...

noooooooo. you have to tell us what the prank was to make us feel for you. that was sooo open ended!! =(

mom said...

I played one April Food joke many years ago and it backfired and I have never even tried to play an April fool joke since then.

Wendy said...

I miss you playing jokes on me! But do agree with everything you said!