I havent really done an Aprils fools joke for many years. In fact, the last time was about fifteen years ago. And it wasn't even my fault, I was just roped into it by The Riddler....
Here's what happened....
Date: April 1st 1990 Time 1:30am
I got a phone call from a mate, who I shall call the Riddler (It's quite close to his surname) He has never really phoned before but he told me he needed to see me urgently. I invited him round, worrying about what his emergency could be. He came round at about 2am and I made him a cup of tea. He asked if he got me out of bed, I said he had. I asked what the emergency was, he said there wasn't one and did I know what the date was. It was then I realised he had got me up at 1:30 as an April fool's joke. I wasnt annoyed by it though. It was then that we started planning what we were going to do to our other friends.
Now if you are the type of reader that finds silly practical jokes disgraceful, then it's probably best you don't read on...
Firstly we boiled some spaghetti and found some string and pins. We went to a neighbours house and pinned some string across the doorway and draped spaghetti across it. So the first thing they would see when they opened the door was a curtain of spaghetti.
Then we took a creme egg. sliced the top off and scooped the insides out. Then we took a raw egg, cracked it and poured the yolk into the creme egg shell. We then soldered the top back on. We gave that to a friend of ours...
We then went to another frineds house, rang the doorbell and pie'd her. I think I may still have the photo of that. Oo-er that could be considered Happy Slapping now !!!!!
And then, finally we decided to wind my brother up. We got a large box and filled it with paper, and in it put a rose. We then wrapped it up to make it look like a present. I went round to his flat (By now it was about 11am) Five minutes later The Riddler came round on some pretext but this time he had left the present on his mat. Now my brother at the time believed there was a girl that fancied him, so I had primed The Riddler with a full description. He then convinced my brother that he had seen a girl leave the box and then managed to describe the girl perfectly. The fact that I had just got there 5 minutes before and there was no box lent weight to The Riddlers story that he had seen someone deliver it- plus he had no reason to make it up as he didn't know the girl. My brother opened the box and found the rose! He spent the next half hour worrying about what to do about the situation! Then at twelve we owned up and he was fine about it!
And that was my eventful April Fool's day
