Yesterday (3/31) there was a wasp in my mailbox. Today is April Fool’s Day. I tried shooing the wasp out, but it just wandered up and into another area of the mailbox. (It’s an exterior mailbox for an apartment building, BTW.) If I leave a note for the mailman warning about the wasp, what are the chances he’ll dismiss it as an April Fool’s joke? Also, what are the odds that someone subsequent to me opened their mailbox and it just flew out? If that happened and I left a note, would the postman think that I’d been joking?
As a side note, has anyone out there had an implausible-yet-true statement ignored because of April Fool’s Day? Sadly, I don’t have enough experience with implausible events to have gathered much data.
After reading many posts about many interesting subjects, I can’t believe that this is the first thread I’ve actually started.
Bosda: Thank you for caring. I’ve never encountered anyone who actually got the reference. A strange coincidence, given a lot of threads on the boards right now: the first time I heard (or read) a statement to the effect, “I’ll protect this village even if I have to kill everyone in it,” was in a Groo comic back in the early 80’s.
To answer your question, though, here’s my line of reasoning:
Sergio Aragones is god.
I’m fairly sure I exist.
What should my name be?
I suppose I’d leave a note. If he believes it, great. If not, oh well, that’s his problem.
As far as an implausible-yet-true statement being ignored because of April Fools day, this happened to my mom, not me, but it’s funny, so I’ll tell it anyway:
When I was just a little Homer, we had a pool in our backyard. Since we live in Canada, it was still closed up on April 1st, with one of those old black winter covers over it. After my dad had gone to work, my mom looks out the window to see something swimming around in the cover! Turns out to be a muskrat, and it’s chewed a hole in the lining to boot. Mom’s not sure how to handle this (I think we had just had the pool put in the summer before, so we hadn’t experienced how much a pool attracts the wildlife yet*) so she calls my dad at work. Of course, since it’s April 1st, he thinks this is just a big joke to get him to come all the way home for nothing. Eventually, after many fearsome oaths being sworn, he believes mom, and then has to convince his boss that he really does have a critter eating his pool cover and needs to leave.
*The muskrat is lucky he decided to come around when mom was new at handling the wildlife invasion. A few years later we moved to a new house with a pool, in a new sub-division. Snakes would come out to sun themselves on the patio and take a dip. Mom hates snakes - so what does she do? Gets a snowshovel and starts kicking ass (so to speak). I’d come home from school and be greeted with a request to dispose of the now slightly flatter snakes in the backyard.
