Sometimes I hate my mother
A few years ago, my family was spending the Easter holidays in a bungalow on Anglesey. I must have been about 9 years old at the time, and was sharing a room with my ten year old sister.

One morning at about 5am, my Mum burst into our room, almost giving us a heart attack and shouting 'Get up!! Get up!! You have to get up now!!'
We awaken, dazed, confused, totally unsure of what's going on, but my Mum is still there and insisting that we put on swimming costumes IMMEDIATELY because 'There are dolphins near the beach and this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to see them in north wales!'

She goes on to explain that she set her radio alarm wrongly, and woke up at 5am to a local news report that said they were there.
Naturally, my sister and I are incredibly excited by this, people at school have seen dolphins, but we never have. We get changed and in less than five minutes we're out of the house with my Mum, running the half mile or so to the beach.

When we got there, we run into the freezing cold water, looking for the dolphins that my Mum promised us, but strangely we can't find anything.

We return to my mum, confused...

Only to find her actually crying with laughter on the beach...

It was April Fools Day.


The worst part is that she still finds it hysterically funny, but it's been over ten years now and my sister and I have never quite recovered.
( Completely Underwhelmed, Thu 26 Jun 2008, 14:41, closed)

i like your mum
that's the kind of stunt i'd pull.
( Smash Monkey it's a bitch convincing people to like you, Thu 26 Jun 2008, 14:43, closed)

yay your mum
that is hillarious (well less so for you id imagine)
(pogo_it, Thu 26 Jun 2008, 15:05, closed)

Your mum's right
it IS hilarious. :D
( Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE(TM), Thu 26 Jun 2008, 16:22, closed)

*click*
*Takes notes*
( Agnostic Antichrist is still hanging in there..., Thu 26 Jun 2008, 16:26, closed)