I used to enjoy April Fools but I haven’t been able to for years and unfortunately find it a day of frustration now.
I just realized I didn’t encounter any tricks this year. I’m thinking part of that is I’m spending a lot of my time on services I host so less chances for others to add the tricks.
It feels like rain on my roof. April Fool’s disruptions happening outside of the space I’ve made while my life can continue as I like inside, undisrupted.
My favorite April Fool’s joke was convincing my then-elementary age kids that they missed April Fool’s Day. Somehow I managed to do this completely deadpan. Them coming home from school and immediately yelling “DAD YOU TRICKED US” was the icing on the cake. They’re teenagers now and still talk about it. Good times.
Recently though, I’ve grown a distaste for AF jokes in general. I fell for two of them within 10 minutes of waking up. One was a youtube creator (miniminuteman’s “Atlantis” episode" that he’s actually been working on for months), and the other was a buddy of mine on a Discord we’re in telling us that he blew his engine in his only vehicle.
To be fair though, in years past I would find a photo of a wrecked vehicle that matched one of mine, same year/make/model/color, and post it on social media captioned with something to the effect of “well that was short-lived” or “luckily it was just me” or whatever. The last time I did it was a few years ago, my wife (then girlfriend at the time) called me within 10 minutes of posting it, clearly panicked, and demanding to know if I was at the hospital 😂 I should have looped her in, in hindsight. But I don’t do it anymore anyway because 1) everyone caught on 😅 and 2) fuck Facebook.