Happy April Fool's Day!

​It’s April Fool’s Day and oh, how I love to pull a prank on those closest to me. And nobody is exempt from it.

I remember one that I pulled on Bob several years ago. It was ten years to the date to be exact. I wrote Bob a long email and I buttered it up, making it so believable that he was hooked from the beginning, up until he got to the end and realized that he was just a fool being told nothing but a story.

I told him that a madman broke into my apartment where I was living at the time and the intruder went plumb crazy. I told Bob the man got onto the couch and started jumping around on it, hopping from one couch cushion to the other and the whole time he demanded to know where all the cash was. He stated the only thing he wanted was money and a bologna sandwich, and he refused to get off the couch. Then, out of nowhere and without warning, he stripped down to nothing but his underwear, and somehow, he managed to pull a pistol out while he shed his clothes and threw them all over the place, and he started waving his gun around in midair. I thought to myself, those cushions are really taking a beating considering all the heavy bouncing he's doing on them. because he was not a small man.

This went on for about 15 minutes when he suddenly picked up his jeans that were lying on the couch next to him and he threw them up into the air. I told Bob that he threw them so high that they caught onto the oscillating ceiling fan and they started spinning around the room while they were attached to the ceiling fan, and all his loose change in the pockets of his jeans were falling out and flying all over the place. The man was so out of his mind that when the change began to fall, he thought it was raining money. That’s when he made the statement several times about how rich he was. It temporarily took his mind off the fact that he had just asked minutes before for all the money in the place, and thankfully no one had to go digging through their wallets to appease him.

I finally ended the story because it got so ridiculous and absurdly impossible to believe, so I said, “April fool’s,” and ended the email. Three days later, after sending that email to him, I received a letter from him saying he didn’t know what to believe when he got that from me. He was mad and reading it wanting to know the whole time why I didn’t pull a gun on the guy and shoot him, and then he got to the end and realized it was an April fool’s joke. 

What's a funny April Fool's joke that you've pulled on someone?