April fools joke gone horribly wrong
Many years ago I played an April Fools trick on my younger sister.
She had been moping around with a long face for a couple of days and any enquiry of "whats wrong?" was met with a sullen "nothing"
April fools day was a big thing in our family, everyone tried to catch each other out.
The day before April 1st, I bought a box of Roses chocolates, carefully unwrapped every one and made plasticine replacements, then refilled the box and wrapped it up in glittery paper, added a ribbon and a little card with nothing but a scrawled heart and a few X's inside.
On the morning itself I got up early to get ready for work, ignored the box sat on the kitchen table that was moving ever so slightly and the slices of plastic bacon and eggs in the fridge with a knowing grin.
Oh no, this year I was going to be household queen of the practical joke.
After sniffing the milk to make sure all was ok I made some tea and went up to wake my little sis, with the box of fake chocs.
A tale ready of how i found them on the doorstep.
Sisters little face lit up and she had the biggest smile I'd seen for days.
Ripped open the package, unwrapped a chocolate and stuffed it in her mouth.
I gleefully yelled "April Fool" and she absolutely dissolved into floods of tears.
After spitting out the plasticine, it transpired between hiccuping sobs that her BF had dumped her a couple days before and she thought the chocs were a 'sorry lets make up gift'.
So I broke my sisters heart for the second time in a couple of days :(
I felt such a shit and couldnt apologise enough.
Took days of grovelling and gift giving before I was grudgingly forgiven.
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 1:15, Reply)