The only thing I came up with early this a.m. when I read it was that Lio was ready for April Fools’ Day pranks, but . . . nothing happened.
Along the same lines, but funnier, was Frazz:
Lio saw the picture in his calendar showing the nuclear mushroom cloud and is disappointed the world still exists?
Hmmmmm?
Lio, being a Weird Kid, wanted to be pranked…and the world did not oblige.
I agree with Dvandom. The world is treating him well on April Fools Day–that’s the joke.
Someone (I think maybe Isaac Asimov) wrote about his brother who told him several times, in the days leading up to April Fool’s Day, that he had a prank lined up for him and would fool him better than he had ever been fooled before. So little Isaac got up cautiously on April 1 and was vigilant all day long waiting for the prank. Nothing happened. Late that night, as Isaac was lying in bed, he wondered whether his brother had not fooled him after all, or whether his brother had in fact fooled him in the most extreme way by making him expect the fooling that never came. Was he fooled, or was he not fooled?
My mom would wake us on April 1 when we were kids by telling us it had snowed and school was closed – and it was always not true. When we got married she would telephone early and tell us that we could not go to work because…
She did not call this year in the morning. However in the early evening we had two calls we thought (in one case hoped) were jokes. Mom called and said that husband’s sister (who with her husband is always on the edge of bankruptcy) had handed her an envelope with cash in it – too much cash to be appropriate as a gift for the occasion and mom wanted to return most of the money to husband’s BIL (his sister wastes money which is a good part of their problem). I kept waiting for the punch line. When I realized it was not a joke, I told her I would ask Robert how we could reach his BIL without his sister. (We can’t he switched companies and we don’t have the new phone number or his cell). I still have to call her back and tell her.
About half an hour later his sister texted (she does not call – she texts, even when her MIL was hospitalized after BIL’s nephew blinded her) that one of the drivers at husband’s new business had an accident with a truck and what should they do. Despite thinking this was a bad April fool joke (as the possibility of this had been discussed at Christmas) it was not.
Oh, this year has started oddly and badly and continues to be one bad joke – just not an April fool one.
Tangent, Meryl, but why would BIL change phone numbers just because he switched companies? Here in the USA at least you can take the number with you, with certain uncommon exceptions
carlfink -I guess it made to sense to me, but would not to anyone who can’t read my mind.
The companies mentioned were not his phone companies, but the companies he owns/ed and works/ed at. He owned a business that his dad had bought for him and it ran it into the ground and sold it for nothing – so that phone number stayed with that company and it is the one we have for him.
He now has a new business – which has a new phone number. We have no idea what the name of it is or if it has its own phone number or shares one with the other similar businesses in the warehouse it is in as they are companies delivering for Amazon and it is Amazon’s warehouse.
So we don’t know how to call him without his wife (R’s sister) knowing. In the interim my mom decided to keep the gift in full. Good idea. She will put it to much better use than BIL or Robert’s sister would.
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The only thing I came up with early this a.m. when I read it was that Lio was ready for April Fools’ Day pranks, but . . . nothing happened.
Along the same lines, but funnier, was Frazz:
Lio saw the picture in his calendar showing the nuclear mushroom cloud and is disappointed the world still exists?
Hmmmmm?
Lio, being a Weird Kid, wanted to be pranked…and the world did not oblige.
I agree with Dvandom. The world is treating him well on April Fools Day–that’s the joke.
Someone (I think maybe Isaac Asimov) wrote about his brother who told him several times, in the days leading up to April Fool’s Day, that he had a prank lined up for him and would fool him better than he had ever been fooled before. So little Isaac got up cautiously on April 1 and was vigilant all day long waiting for the prank. Nothing happened. Late that night, as Isaac was lying in bed, he wondered whether his brother had not fooled him after all, or whether his brother had in fact fooled him in the most extreme way by making him expect the fooling that never came. Was he fooled, or was he not fooled?
My mom would wake us on April 1 when we were kids by telling us it had snowed and school was closed – and it was always not true. When we got married she would telephone early and tell us that we could not go to work because…
She did not call this year in the morning. However in the early evening we had two calls we thought (in one case hoped) were jokes. Mom called and said that husband’s sister (who with her husband is always on the edge of bankruptcy) had handed her an envelope with cash in it – too much cash to be appropriate as a gift for the occasion and mom wanted to return most of the money to husband’s BIL (his sister wastes money which is a good part of their problem). I kept waiting for the punch line. When I realized it was not a joke, I told her I would ask Robert how we could reach his BIL without his sister. (We can’t he switched companies and we don’t have the new phone number or his cell). I still have to call her back and tell her.
About half an hour later his sister texted (she does not call – she texts, even when her MIL was hospitalized after BIL’s nephew blinded her) that one of the drivers at husband’s new business had an accident with a truck and what should they do. Despite thinking this was a bad April fool joke (as the possibility of this had been discussed at Christmas) it was not.
Oh, this year has started oddly and badly and continues to be one bad joke – just not an April fool one.
Tangent, Meryl, but why would BIL change phone numbers just because he switched companies? Here in the USA at least you can take the number with you, with certain uncommon exceptions
carlfink -I guess it made to sense to me, but would not to anyone who can’t read my mind.
The companies mentioned were not his phone companies, but the companies he owns/ed and works/ed at. He owned a business that his dad had bought for him and it ran it into the ground and sold it for nothing – so that phone number stayed with that company and it is the one we have for him.
He now has a new business – which has a new phone number. We have no idea what the name of it is or if it has its own phone number or shares one with the other similar businesses in the warehouse it is in as they are companies delivering for Amazon and it is Amazon’s warehouse.
So we don’t know how to call him without his wife (R’s sister) knowing. In the interim my mom decided to keep the gift in full. Good idea. She will put it to much better use than BIL or Robert’s sister would.