Are you a master prankster or are you the frequent victim of an Ashton Kutcher wanna-be?
Either way you could win a fun prize from the YDR.
The business staff wants to know about your April Fool's Day shenanigans. Leave a comment telling us about your best workplace prank or your most embarrassing moment of gullibility. The more details the better.
We'll announce the winner by the end of the week.
If you're looking for inspiration check out a few of these ideas from an article in the Washington Post:
* Placing a pair of pants and shoes inside the only toilet stall in a men’s room to make it appear as though someone was using the stall. They sat there for hours until someone called security to check if the person had died.
* All the women in an office individually spoke to the president, confiding their pregnancies. By noon, he “knew” that all of his female workers were pregnant but could not tell anyone because each had asked for confidentiality.
* A vending soda machine filled with cans of beer.
* Placing a sign on the rest-room door that read, “The Company ran out of toilet tissue; please use your own resources.”
If you can top the last one, you just might be our winner.
I came into work this morning.. knowing in my head to expect anything throughout the day because after all it is April Fool's Day! When I reached the front door there was a sign on it that read, "So, I was really bored last night ... and we had a bunch of cups at home.... sorry guys" Signed Randy Clark, the president of our ministry Global Awakening. Ok, I go inside the building, and as i go to head upstairs, where all of the staff's offices are, I see another sign in front of the stairwell.. it says the same thing. So by this time I'm like.. a lot of cups? Ok? I open the stairwell door and there are signs posted all along the stairs, claiming to be from different staff members. "Didn't anyone ever tell you pregnant women do weird things?" from Micah Joy, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink"-Phong and Ryan, "These drinks are on us..."- Bill Johnson and the Bethel Crew, "We have little kids at home, we would be too tired to have done this... Or perhaps crazy enough!?!?!?!?!" Jeff, Andre, and Andrew, "I have calculated that someone has spent exactly ... $29.64 on plastic cups and approximately 3-4 hours of their time....Wasn't Me!" -Angie (our accountant). Drinks? I was thinking...Are our desks going to be covered in drinks? Or something? Alas! At the top of the stairs i come to the upper door.. And much to my dismay though my hands are full and I can barely manage all of my day's supplies .. I see it! There were cups Filled with water, spread out in front of the doorway spaced just far enough so that no one can get their feet in between 2 cups without knocking them over! I peeked around the corner... sure enough the floor in front of the elevator has been jinxed too! What are we going to do?!?! No one can get to their desks for work! And who REALLY put all of these cups in front of the doors?... The prank we're still trying to figure out who is responsible....
Excellently done!
I posted the following "article" on a very popular river fishing website. Alot of guys on this site have just bought high horsepowered jet boats in the past few years.....
I came across this article and had to post it. I myself will be at this meeting. Anyone else planning on attending, Please post,e-mail, or PM me and we will make plans to hook up.
Pete
By RICK LEE Daily Record/Sunday News
Article Last Updated: 03/31/2008 08:56:26 PM EDT
N E W S R E L E A S E
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA
Department of Conservation
and Natural Resources
Commonwealth News Bureau
Room 308, Main Capitol
Harrisburg, PA 17120
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: (DCNR) April Full
(717) 772-9101
PUBLIC MEETING TO ADDRESS NEW BOATING HORSEPOWER RESTRICTIONS ON THE SUSQUEHANA
(Harrisburg, March,31) -- The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) and the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) have scheduled a public meeting to receive comment on the changes to boating horsepower limits in sections of the Lower Susquehanna.
"Due to the amount of accidents and complaints in the past couple years, we have been forced to put a 20 horsepower limit on some sections of the Susquehanna",said Robert A. Bachman, Commissioner of the 6th District, "and one section will be designated a "slow-no-wake"area. This includes jetskis and all other personal motorized watercraft. These areas are in the most shallow and rocky parts of the Lower Susquehanna Basin, and are temporary at this point."
These changes will go into effect on April 15, 2008. There will be signs posted at ramps in these areas, and enforcement at this point will be in the form of a warning only, until we feel sufficient time has gone by and everyone has gotten fair notice.
The areas effected:(from the most northern point south)
Rockville Bridge(rail) DOWNSTREAM to the southern point of Sheets Island
York Haven Dam DOWNSTREAM to the Route 462 bridge (Wrightsville Boat Launch)
Holtwood Dam DOWNSTREAM to the southern point of Upper Bear Island
Slow-no-wake area:
From the confluence of the Swatara Creek(Royalton) DOWNSTREAM to the southern point of Shelly Island(there is NO hp limit here)
There will be a public meeting regarding these changes.The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. Monday, April 14, at PFBC headquarters, 1601 Elmerton Ave., Harrisburg.
We served an April Fool's lunch to the senior center members of: Strawberry juice with a straw in it (jello), mini hamburgs (vanilla wafers for the roll, chocolate mint cookies for the hamburg, icing for mayo and ketchup and green coconut for lettuce), grilled cheese sandwich (pound cake slices toasted and spread with orange icing to look like cheese), sunny side up eggs (french toast slice with spoon of vanilla ice cream on top and a half peach on top of ice cream), popcorn (cauliflower), and a cupcake (mini meatloaf in cupcake paper with mashed potato frosting colored with food coloring)
I got my whole family pretty good. I first called my husband Ray in the morning and told him I got a call from the middle school and that Jordyn (his 13 year old daughter, my step-daughter) had been kicked off the bus for a week for smacking another student in the back of the head. He was so mad. I asked him what we're going to do and how she's going to get to school and back home. I asked if he had any ideas.
He said "Well i guess I'll have to drop her off before
6(am) and she'll have to sit there until the school opens and wait after school until I can pick
her up"...He was so angry I could hear the steam whistling from his ears. So when I said "April Fools", he called me a few choice names. It was truly entertaining. He said we'd have to have a family meeting since that's actually something that Jordyn would do!
So, since that one went so well, I called my 11 year old daughter Sydney on my way home from work at her Dad's house. I told her Dreamwrights (the community theater where she is currently a stage manager)had called and indicated that the other stage manager for the play couldn't make it, so she had to go from 6-9pm. That evening would have been her only day off out of 5 or 6 days. She was so disappointed, but sadly said, "ok". I told her to tell her dad because he'd have to take her (since that was his day to spend with her)I heard him in the background rather annoyed off, saying "OH COME OOOONNNNN". I left them off the hook (two birds with one stone). Her father told me the next day that he was mad about that for about an hour!
By now I feel I'm on roll so I went home and Jorydn was in a good mood and
carrying on with me. I told her to knock it off that I wasn't in the
mood...That I had received a call from school to let us know she currently had a "D" and an "F" in two subjects, but that I was so upset about it, I had forgotten what the subjects
were. I told her I talked to her dad and he was angry and disappointed as well and that she was grounded to her room. She headed upstairs to her room, and before she made it there, I told her "April Fools". She wasn't exactly amused.
Only one more to go. At 6pm when my 15 year old step-daughter Brooke got home from play practice, I
told her I'd heat up
her dinner while she had to go clean up her bed. I explained that one of the cats got sick up a few times all over it and it was disgusting. She was freaked out and asked what she was supposed to do. I told her she'll have to clean it up the bet she could, then wash her comforter. She slowly made it up to her room, dreading what she'd find, which was nothing.
Who says moms can't be fun? I was told I was mean. But in my opinion, I was participating in/celebrating a holiday. Nothing more. Besides, all the grief I have taken from these people, I figured they deserved it! This may be my new favorite holiday.
I was up early on April Fool's Day in 2006 very pregnant and ready to burst. Our employees were filing into the office to get directions from my husband for the moving job of the day. Comments were being made about my size and when our daughter would arrive. I walked to the door too look outside then turned around announcing my water had broke! The front of my shorts were soaked. My husband John turns to the men and says "well I guess I'm going to the hospital!" Everyone began talking at once with bits of advice to "grab the suitcase and go!" I couldn't hold back and started laughing like crazy. I had tucked a small bag of water in the waist of my shorts then popped it with a needle at the bottom to make it look like my water broke. I apparently did a very good job!! Tesla Rose wasn't born for 23 more days.