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April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894
The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected. ~Will Rogers
A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark. ~Henry Louis Mencken
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. ~Douglas Adams
I have great faith in fools - self-confidence, my friends call it. ~Edgar Allan Poe
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Ah . . .April Fool's Day . . .the day of jokes and pranks, of salt in your coffee, of cars full of popcorn and spiders crawling through someone's hair. I remember my kids always, year after year, putting salt in my coffee that morning and dying of laughter at the look at my face. One year, I decided to get even. The night before, I switched the salt in the shaker for sugar and put salt in the sugar jar. I figured, I'd get my coffee sweetened 'just right' and they'd get the joke on their cereal. That was the year, they didn't do that joke and the morning they all decided on freezer waffles. I still ended up with salty coffee and they went off to school trying to figure out who pulled the joke on me. That was the year, I think, that I switched to sweetener in my coffee!
My ex left on April Fool's Day, sneaking away in the middle of the night, leaving a note, his dirty laundry and a house strangely peaceful. I spent a day insisting it 'had' to be a joke. The divorce was finalized a year later, to the day. The joke, much to his dismay, was finally on him!
Dad used to play reverse jokes on us kids. He'd come up with something outrageous that everyone thought was a joke, but in reality, wasn't. I'll never forget the time my car (a beat-up, on its last tire, held together with love and duct tape old chevy) refused to start one morning. I was going to be late for real estate classes I was taking to get my license to help mom out at work and freaking because mom would be mad at me if I mess it up. I woke up my dad to ask him for help. He looked at the car and declared it dead. I made the 'Yeah, dad, I get it April Fool, but I need to get to class.' comments to no avail. I was told they both needed their cars that day and I was out of luck. Furious and hurt that they were being no help at all, I headed for the garage seeking something that might get my car running again, or something to put it out of its misery for good. Inside was a brand new car.
April Fools jokes abound in our everyday world, and there is no reason they cannot be incorporated into writing as well. A joke can be used to further a storyline, add dimension to several characters and even inject a bit of humor as well. It could be a breaking point, a diffuser of trouble or an emotional release. It could be the basis for a short story. Consider the beleaguered heroine named April! I'll never forget the year of the April Fool Storm that buried the north-eastern US under two-plus feet of the predicted couple of inches of snow or the glitch that sent the military scrambling when no one got their pay checks on the first as was expected.
There are numerous ways that April foolery could be used within the framework of a story line. Don't be foolish. Use them!
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