April Fools Day Pranks?
Posted: April 1st, 2017, 11:55 pm
Today was April 1st! I don't know about the rest of the world, and I'm too lazy to Google it, but here in America that makes it April Fools Day. Anybody pull some good pranks? Anyone get a good one pulled ON THEM? Me, I did two.
First, I like to prank my readers (I write online novels) every year. Usually I write up a spoof chapter that pretends it's following the previous week's chapter, but then veers off into ridiculousness. This year, though, I just ran the entire chapter through a dozen languages on Google Translate. It ended up sounding *kind of* coherent, but still mostly gibberish. The best part was all the confused comments wondering what the heck had gotten into me (to which I responded after translating the comment multiple times).
Secondly, my parents invited me over for dinner. Later, they wanted to watch a movie, and they sent me to Dairy Queen to get some ice cream first. My dad freaking loves DQ. So I drive there, and while I'm waiting in the drive thru I call my dad and say, "Uh, Dad, you're not going to believe this, but the Dairy Queen is ON FIRE!" I tell him the fire department's there trying to put it out, so I'm just going to head back without the ice cream. He swallowed it up hook, line, and sinker, and when I got home (with the ice cream-- APRIL FOOOOLS!) my mom told me he'd been on the verge of tears ever since I hung up.
What about you guys?
First, I like to prank my readers (I write online novels) every year. Usually I write up a spoof chapter that pretends it's following the previous week's chapter, but then veers off into ridiculousness. This year, though, I just ran the entire chapter through a dozen languages on Google Translate. It ended up sounding *kind of* coherent, but still mostly gibberish. The best part was all the confused comments wondering what the heck had gotten into me (to which I responded after translating the comment multiple times).
Secondly, my parents invited me over for dinner. Later, they wanted to watch a movie, and they sent me to Dairy Queen to get some ice cream first. My dad freaking loves DQ. So I drive there, and while I'm waiting in the drive thru I call my dad and say, "Uh, Dad, you're not going to believe this, but the Dairy Queen is ON FIRE!" I tell him the fire department's there trying to put it out, so I'm just going to head back without the ice cream. He swallowed it up hook, line, and sinker, and when I got home (with the ice cream-- APRIL FOOOOLS!) my mom told me he'd been on the verge of tears ever since I hung up.
What about you guys?