April Fools Day

[Dead2009]

What's one of the worst pranks you pulled on your friends in relation to April Fools Day? What had them believing it so bad that it legit affected them?

 

[A Maybe Baker]

One time in college I told them Mitch Hedberg died.

 

[Ben]

One time I spent about 9 months convincing this community of aging-gamers I'd been part of as a teenager that I'd changed my ways and was no longer a huge asshole, just so that they'd trust me with administrative permissions again and I could begin the cycle of power abuse once more.

April fools.

Okay, just a little power abuse...

 

[Gloom-is-good]

A few years ago I told my coworker that I had put in my notice. She was very upset when I told her it was just a prank. She said she'd tell her mom on me

 

[Crystal]

aging-gamers

 

[Ben]

You can shorten "aging gamer" to "a ging-er".

 

[Crystal]

You can shorten "aging gamer" to "a ging-er".

 

[The Eye in the Sky!]

Lol, 12 years ago on April fools Day I got married.

...I guess the prank was on me.

 

[A Maybe Baker]

Lol, 12 years ago on April fools Day I got married.

...I guess the prank was on me.

Happy Anniversary

 

[Ben]

One time on an April 1st, I got suspended from a shitty job selling doing customer service for dick pills* because of my attendance (kid was always making me late.)

They sat me in a conference room and had the team lead tell me. I then for some reason told her "hah, missed opportunity to tell me I was fired for April Fools."

She left to tell her boss, then came back and just fired me. Whoopsie.

*direct marketing company that sold natural supplements. Memory supplements for old people, weight loss stuff, and of course penis growth/performance supplements advertised in porn mags. I was terrible at selling since I knew it was bullshit, but CS wasn't much better since you had to convince people not to return a bullshit product.

 

[Benzine]

I started writing about why I got kicked out of my university hall, but decided that I best not, even though I didn't do the bad thing.

 

[Mark]

One time I spent about 9 months convincing this community of aging-gamers I'd been part of as a teenager that I'd changed my ways and was no longer a huge asshole, just so that they'd trust me with administrative permissions again and I could begin the cycle of power abuse once more.

April fools.

Okay, just a little power abuse...

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Convincing? Who says it wasn’t just a scheme to drum up more activity? It’s also not an abuse of power if name changes for him are part of the gig… you’re just doing your doody at that point.

Lol, 12 years ago on April fools Day I got married.

...I guess the prank was on me.

Congratulations, and condolences on the grays. You’re outnumbered, if they haven’t turned yet, they will.

One time on an April 1st, I got suspended from a shitty job selling doing customer service for dick pills* because of my attendance (kid was always making me late.)

They sat me in a conference room and had the team lead tell me. I then for some reason told her "hah, missed opportunity to tell me I was fired for April Fools."

She left to tell her boss, then came back and just fired me. Whoopsie.

*direct marketing company that sold natural supplements. Memory supplements for old people, weight loss stuff, and of course penis growth/performance supplements advertised in porn mags. I was terrible at selling since I knew it was bullshit, but CS wasn't much better since you had to convince people not to return a bullshit product.

Those ten minutes you wasted wondering whether or not you should elaborate on the whole “dick pill dealer” thing you aren’t getting back. You should have just refused to elaborate, like those Nigerian shaman you see in Facebook comments in news stories about totally unrelated topics.

I started writing about why I got kicked out of my university hall, but decided that I best not, even though I didn't do the bad thing.

Okay, so don’t share with the class, then. Dick. Everyone else has a story here.

As far as me…

 

[The Eye in the Sky!]

Congratulations, and condolences on the grays. You’re outnumbered, if they haven’t turned yet, they will.

I only notice it when I don't shave for a few days. My hair has some gray, but its not too noticeable. But when my facial hair goes beyond 5 o clock shadow it gets gray fast. My wife has a thing for Patrick Dempsey types - silver foxes if you will - so she is fine with it.

After I posted, my daughter got us both with an official looking disciplinary form from school that the principal gave out to students. Basically a letter saying her and her group at the lunch table were disrespectful and cannot return to school without a parent conference.

Flipped it over to sign it, and it said "please sign here to accept that you were just pranked for April Fool's Day" in small wording above a typical parent signature line.

I went from furious to chasing my daughter and tackling her and tickling her until she couldn't breathe. I have to get her next year now.

 

[Mark]

I only notice it when I don't shave for a few days. My hair has some gray, but its not too noticeable. But when my facial hair goes beyond 5 o clock shadow it gets gray fast. My wife has a thing for Patrick Dempsey types - silver foxes if you will - so she is fine with it.

After I posted, my daughter got us both with an official looking disciplinary form from school that the principal gave out to students. Basically a letter saying her and her group at the lunch table were disrespectful and cannot return to school without a parent conference.

Flipped it over to sign it, and it said "please sign here to accept that you were just pranked for April Fool's Day" in small wording above a typical parent signature line.

I went from furious to chasing my daughter and tackling her and tickling her until she couldn't breathe. I have to get her next year now.

Niiice, was she able to sell you on it? Or did she just kinda dump it on y’all to read and piece together yourselves?

 

[Ben]

Convincing? Who says it wasn’t just a scheme to drum up more activity? It’s also not an abuse of power if name changes for him are part of the gig… you’re just doing your doody at that point.

 

[Mark]

Look, you could have been just stopping by to visit and then told “well, you work here now” like the rest of us. At least someone WANTED to add you.

 

[dimmerwit]

*cute story*