I hate hate hate HATE April Fools Day
I’m a pretty gullible, hyper person to begin with — put me in a news environment, multiply that by four. PUT ME IN A FUCKING NEWS ENVIRONMENT WHERE EVERYBODY AND THEIR GODDAMN AUNT WAS PUTTING IN FAKE PRESS RELEASES AND MY HEAD NEARLY EXPLODES. On my to kill list at this current moment, Engadget and Tribune Co. — more Engadget and their news post about Verizon buying AT&T for $25 billion dollars WHICH IF IT HAD SAID “SPRINT” I WOULD HAVE SENT FUCKING HEADLINES sdlkfjweaoidlfkdjf. THIS HOLIDAY SUCKS.
As a fellow fairly hyper, gullible person, I COMPLETELY AGREE. GOD. IT IS THE SUCKIEST HOLIDAY EVER.
I agree. Especially since people seem to confuse “mean” with “funny” today!
I loathe this day. I spend the entire day on guard for any tricks and generally encourage the little voice in the back of my head going “Remember, it’s April Fools. Watch out. Remember, it’s April Fools…” and so on.
This has nothing to do with April Fool’s, but it makes me happy, so mebbe it will make your head less explody.
Listen to “The Last Saskatchewan Pirate” by the Arrogant Worms really loudly in your room, and things just might improve.
See, the problem I have on this day is I think *everything* is a prank, so when my editor came to my desk and told me I had to go to a *health commission* meeting because the *mayor* was going to be there (really? I’m now covering the health commission because the mayor says so?) I assumed he was joking. And then I almost started crying in the stairway when he told me I’d have to write 15 inches.
So yes, HATE.
(Nice to see you back again!)
Several years ago I heard an NPR April Fool’s story about a shortage in maple syrup, culminating with a clip about maple furniture being recycled to create syrup, and I thought that was so strange I *told someone about it.* Someone I was attracted to, to make it worse. “I think that was an April Fool’s story,” he said gently.