April First
I’m not a big ‘prankster’. I have never been really good at it, and when I am in the middle of pulling off some sort of prank, I usually feel bad and then tell someone. I suck at it really. Except for last year. Anyone remember this?
Here’s the funny thing about that prank and what happened after. See, Kristin didn’t think that keeping it going very long was a good idea, and like normal, she was probably right. I pulled the plug earlier than I was going to and told everyone it was a joke. Come to find out that there were literally people all over the country gathering money together to help me stay out of jail. See how awesome you people are?
Now, that story is an example I have used a million times in meetings with people about starting blogs. That’s an amazing community and it completely blew me away that readers of this thing would offer to give money to keep me out of jail. Even if it was a joke and they should hate me for it. I love the new faces that have shown up since then, and the folks that for whatever reason keep coming back.
And since I’m not that great of a ‘prankster’ I want to hear some of your stories. What’s the best prank you have ever pulled off, or had pulled on you?
Ready? Go.
Never pulled any pranks (I suck worse than you think you do) and can’t recall any that have been pulled on me. Just think how many people would try to keep you out of jail if you had pulled that stunt this year. You have a show to be at on Friday! That was actually pretty funny. With all the goofy guys you’re traveling with (Travis, Bart, Mike) I would think you’d be glad not to be on the road with them on this particular day. I can only imagine (pun intended) the pranks they would try to pull.
Enjoy the rest of your time off.
No pranks from me. I’m just like you! lol
Every year my sister in law calls and tells me that they are expecting a new little visitor and I start crying thinking I have a new niece or nephew on the way. Once I’m nice and emotional, she tells me they are getting a cat, a snake, or a bug…whatever. BRUTAL!
She knows I forget every thing, so I am an easy target. BUT. I’m ready for her this year. Your post jolted the memory and I’m not going to fall for it.
Hurray Brody and Ginkgo Biloba!
I dozed off before you posted your PPT. Well, it could be both! It was positive this year. Apologizing all over again. This is quite a community I’ve been introduced to. I even had a new visitor to my blog that “got here through Brody”.
I’ve never done a prank. I don’t like them. Someone always seems to get hurt feelings. Although, like Lisa, you HAVE been keeping company with some pretty amazing, well-known pranksters.
Can hardly wait til Friday. My daughter is embarrassed that I’m making a shirt. Why? It’s not like any of her friends are going to see me in it. Plus, it’s not embarrassing! Hope to find you in a crowd of thousands. If you need any help, I should be there by 2! Ha, ha, ha. I’ll just tell them my name is Gene!
I always forget and someone at a random place like Target will do something random to me and I’m left more confused than pranked. I use to dream up ways to prank people (i had brothers) so we had lots of ideas, but I can’t remember one of these days where it was an actual “I got ya!” moment….hmmm I think instead of Fool’s Day we should have April Snooze Day (everyone takes the day and naps).
Wow, I can’t believe people bought that. I pretty much just assume anything I read on April 1 is a joke unless they clearly state otherwise. And even then I’m suspicious.
I’m a big prankster. My whole family is. Today is one of my favorite days of the year. I do the whole nine yards, prank calls (http://www.prankdialer.com), fake emails, crazy blog designs (http://www.bradruggles.com). So much fun.
On a serious note, that is awesome that you’ve developed such a strong community that people were willing to pool money to get you out of jail. Shows you how tight the blogging community is.
I remember that jail joke so vividly…that’s why I’ve been careful about who and what I believe today. I will not let that happen to me again! Haha.
I mean I didn’t give you tons of money or anything, but you should’ve seen how concerned I was. I was all like, “It must be so horrible for the kids and Kristin…I should pray for them…blah blah blah” It was supposedly only for 12 days but I tend to over-worry about little things. Hehe.
It sort of made me a little mad, but I must admit that was a great prank.
Not very good at it but yours was the best so far, seriously!
I made it a point to stop by the blog today, just to see if you would do something as crazy as last year …
I’m not really good at the whole prank thing either. I did get my friend to believe I got engaged this morning though….
When I was a senior in high school my Government teacher was the teacher we played pranks on. The first day of class when he called my named he actually said “oh no you’re not so and so sister are you?” and the answer was “yes I am”. That was a warning to him that he was in for pranks. The thing was he was known for having a good sense of humor about pranks that were funny and not harmful!
The best one we played was the week after the Northridge earthquake-this was in southern California. He had stood in front of the entire class during a 7.1 earthquake and didn’t budge while we all dove under our desks. He didn’t even realized we had an earthquake! So the following week we all agreed that the first time he pointed at the map with his pointer we would all dive under our desks and claim there was a big aftershock!
It worked–he actually had us file out of class and didn’t realize it was a prank until we were all out of class and no other class was coming out to join us. We thought it was quite funny, he thought it was a waste of time but laughed anyway. This was only one of the many pranks we played on him throughout the year.
So I just realized–it was the Whittier Quake–the Northridge quake was a few years after that =) Though the prank was still as funny at the time.
I don’t have a great story. But today I thought about calling my wife and asking her to pick me up from work (I have a company vehicle) because I got laid off. Then I realized that she probably would have gotten really emotional and it wouldn’t end up being that funny at all. I just didn’t have the heart for this kind of joke.