So April Fooled... Big Time!

So every year without fail my wonderful Dad plays an April Fools joke on his children. To elaborate, every day before school I would ask my Daddy how the weather was going to be. That day, April Fool's Day, he told me it was going to be so sunny without a cloud in the sky. He actually encouraged me to wear some shorts, it would help me enjoy the gorgeous day. So I got dressed and headed outside to get in the car with my dad. When I stepped outside... IT WAS FREEZING, CLOUDY, and WET. I looked at my dad so confused and he just pointed, laughed, and exclaimed APRIL FOOL'S. 

Years later on the same day we call came down to breakfast and noticed there was a piece of paper towel on the ground. We asked what was underneath it and my dad told us to be very careful our dog, bandit, had had an accident and it was very large and underneath the paper towel. The whole morning my sister, brother, and I tiptoed around that piece of paper. I think it stayed there until we got back from school and someone was finally brave enough to look underneath. We revealed a big spot of NOTHING. Dad was there to point, laugh, and exclaim April Fool's!!

So needless to say this year at 23 years old I braced myself for that awaited day. I just knew my dad would have something clever this year, but I didn't know what. He had done everything from telling me I had no money in my bank account to "hey you have something on your shirt," so I just didn't know what he had left. All day I shared with my co-workers my dad's infinite array of April Fool's pranks and they all awaited what he would do that day. Well the day came and it went. Nothing... NOTHING. Nothing happened. I couldn't believe it. I went home and Brett asked me what my dad had pulled this year and I said NOTHING. I thought maybe just maybe he was holding out for April 2nd. It came and went, the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th went without one word from him. 

Today I called my dad to ask if him and my mom would like to go out to lunch with me. I talked to my mom about Easter weekend plans and then I asked her to pass the phone back to dad. I was going to let him know that his April Fool's jokes were a thing of the past because this year he simply forgot. I told him I waited all day to hear from him and couldn't believe he 

didn't do or say one little thing. 

He said, "I know... APRIL FOOL'S!!!!!!!!!!!!" My dad is one of the most clever man I have ever met. He waited 9 days for me to take the bait and I took it, hook, line and sinker. I couldn't believe what had just happened. He told me he kept that one just for me, and as aggravated as I was to be fooled once again, I have never felt more loved by my one and only daddy. :)

P.S. My sister was taking her temperature at their house on that faithful day, my dad told her it was a rectal thermometer. Classic dad!