Normally, I go to the cafe at the grocery store to get my caffeine fix on weekends. However, this week they’re remodeling it, so I pulled out the old coffee machine and started a pot, then went downstairs for a quick smoke. Normally, I make 8 cups (out of 12) because that’s how much coffee I can grind at once. (Yes, I’m a real maniac about good coffee).
I come back and the pot has twelve cups of coffee in it! Damn! How’d that happen? I’m sitting there scratching my head for a half hour!
Of course, my son had added an extra four cups to the machine as an April Fool’s prank. Man, did I feel stooopid!
hahaha…that’s a good one. I like super glueing a few quarters on the ground for April Fools Day. It’s funny to watch people try to pick them up.
Never criticize a person until you walk a mile in their shoes… this way when you do criticize them you’ll be a mile away… oh… and you’ll have free shoes. :o)
I would just like to say that that is the most benign April fools prank I’ve ever heard of. If you son should ever need a stepfather, I would like someone to make coffee for me on weekends too
Mind you, your son aint that devious. I did a couple in my time as well. Hmmmm…let me see…
OH! I switched the sugar with the salt, and saran wrapped the toilet seets…and i put onions in my teachers coffee at school…and replaced my sisters tuna sandwich with cat food… I think that is about it.
It was tremendously devious. Think about it: An ordinary trick, the victim says, “Doh!” and goes about his business. This trick, I’m sitting there drinking crappy diluted coffee and scratching my head like a complete idiot for a full thirty minutes, while he’s in the other room chortling.
Gotta love a kid that a) manages to find a nice, benign prank that doesn’t hurt anyone, b) pulls it off successfully, and c) has the cojones to pull it on his dad.
I am trying to raise my kids to have a sense of humor. My kids will, I’m sure, inherit my family’s dry, caustic wit, which is fine. But the men in my family have this certain love of destruction (as most men do, I’ve come to realize). I don’t want to think about my children’s first April Fool’s prank. :eek:
This is my new sig. Thank Wally. It was his idea.
“I made my husband join a bridge club. He jumps next Tuesday.”
Well his first prank, when he was 8 or 9, was to take a travel alarm clock, set the alarm to 3am, and toss it under my bed. Now, I had one of those platform beds with drawers, so I had to pull the mattress off to get at the clock. My response was, “Ha ha, very funny, April fools… I’m not going to punish you, but if you do that again, you won’t live to pull another prank.”
I’m glad he’s switch from the terminally obnoxious to the subtle!
