April Fool’s went by this year uneventful for me, no practical jokes and no annoying pranks. At least so I thought. I have a group of guys that I lead in a bible study on Monday nights. Since it is Spring break this week, we talked about moving our usual meeting day and time. After several emails and conversations everyone agreed that we would keep it our normal time.
I showed up, as usual, about 15 minutes early to shoot the breeze with some of the guys. Our 7pm meeting time came and went and no one showed up. I thought out of my 8 guys that at least half of them would show up. Soon it was 7:05, then 7:10 and still no one so I decided to call the guys and see if anyone was going to make it. Each call ended in their voicemail so I decided to pack up and head home a bit perturbed.
At that point they snuck up behind me and royally scared me. The guys decided earlier in the day to come up with a prank to pull on me after one of them found a website with the top 100 April Fool’s jokes of all time. (My favorite of the top 100 is the 1st one – The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest, pulled off by the BBC in 1957).