My Last April Fools Joke Was In 2010

"McMike" (mcmike) 04/01/2014 at 09:26 • Filed to: april fools

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There was a thread going around the neighborhood about beautiful beer weather, and that on Thursday, we were all going to get together and play some cornhole, horseshoes, etc on the block (this happens often, but this time it was planned)

Emails were flying around all week, and everyone was looking forward to it.

This is what I sent.

To: Everyone

Subject: Thursday Night Beers

Hey guys, Might have to back out on the cornhole tonight. Had a little car trouble on the way to work this morning. I had some errands to run over in the Vienna/Fair Lakes area this afternoon, so I drove to the Vienna Metro. Some jackass in a minivan decided to cross the center line this morning and run into me. I'm typing this from my laptop while in the hospital for "observation" (what ever that means). I was obviously OK enough to take some pictures with my phone.

I don't know if I'll be more sore from the accident tomorrow, or the fact that it looks like the van has seen it's last road trip. No word on if the non-english speaking driver has insurance yet. People in Fairfax can't drive worth a shit. I should have known better. Although I'll need a beer tonight (or now), we may be spending this afternoon/evening getting stuff out of the car (if we can find where they towed it to). If you don't see me tonight, have a beer for me.

~Mike

(then I included these photos I found on the internet)

When I wrote this, I only sent it to the boys, and tried to make it appear that everything (except for the car) was fine. I'll be home later, and there was nothing they could do.

What I didn't count on was them talking to their wives, and telling them what happened. Since the women didn't pick up on the "I'm fine, see you guys later this evening" tone, they went straight into support mode and started calling me and Mrs McMike, asking if there was anything they could do, if we needed dinner, if I needed a ride home from the hospital, etc..

I was expecting the guys to say, "Man, that sucks..." and go on with their day. I didn't even tell Mrs McMike about it. I learned of the wives offering to help when Mrs McMike called me and asked why the hell everyone was calling her about an accident I had.

It was a great prank, but it backfired on me. I felt really bad.

Edit: I forgot about last year.

I had created a burner account, using hardibro's display name and avatar, and started recommending everything I could find.

The editors were pretty quick to notice and started deleting them.

I could have done it all day if I wouldn't have gotten cocky and started replying directly to Travis and Patrick.

Jagvar > McMike 04/01/2014 at 09:32

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A girl in college (who was editor-in-chief of the campus newspaper, no less) decided that, as an April Fools Day joke, she would tell her mom that her car had been stolen. Her mother responded by running out the door, driving through the night (9+ hours) and showing up at the campus in tears looking for her daughter.

Things did not go well after that.

48 Spoons > McMike 04/01/2014 at 09:36

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Seems like the red minivan pooped itself in fear.

jkm7680 > McMike 04/02/2014 at 06:25

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Yesterday I placed blank folded pieces of paper under the windshields of every car in the parking lot at work. I am a very evil man, Haha.

scoob > jkm7680 04/01/2015 at 18:26

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SCOOB LOOKING INTO THE PAST TROLOLOLOL

jkm7680 > scoob 04/01/2015 at 22:25

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OOOOOHHHH YOU BAAAAAADDDDD!!!!