# April Fools Gone Bad **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 1, 2021, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-gone-bad/939162 "2021-04-01T15:25:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2021, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-gone-bad/939162/10 "2021-04-01T16:39:09Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Does anyone have any personal stories about bad jokes you lived through yourself? I shared this story of how I managed to prank myself one April Fool’s Day in the other AFD thread: > [@April Fools' Day 2021](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-2021/939142/3): > > I think I shared it in on the SD before, but I’ll tell the story of the time I April Fool’s pranked myself: Years ago on this day, I tried to prank my wife with the classic “rubber band on the kitchen sink spray nozzle handle” trick so that when you turn the tap on you get sprayed. Hours went by in which my wife had not used the kitchen sink for any reason. SO much time went by, in fact, that I completely forgot what I had done, and went to the sink to get a glass of water. My little trick wor… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-gone-bad/939162)._