Tell us your best April Fools story.

[953 nut 55,210]

About eight years ago Karl @admin pulled off an April Fools stunt that took us all by surprise.

 

[Ed Kennell 38,162]

My standard trick was to tape down the lever on the kitchen sink sprayer to give Mrs.K an unexpected shower when she filled the coffee pot.   It doesn't work now with the sprayer on the spout.

When I was still working and carrying a lunch, there was always a strip of cardboard in my sandwich on 4/1.

 

[squonk 41,092]

Call in sick. Boss thinks you're fooling. Then don't show up. Jokes on him. He can't fire you because you did what you're supposed to. 

[Darb1964 1,042]

One April first I'll never forget was1997 if my memory is right. I had a large plow rout at the time and worked full time night shift for Crane paper. The forecast was for rain so my plow was not on my truck. Needless to say it snowed, heavy wet snow. I had too drive home and put my plow on, usually a fifteen minute drive, the snow was deep and the road's not good took me an hour and still coming down hard. When I pulled up to the plow I was six inches too high because of the packed snow, had too chisel the hard packed snow, another hour. By the time I was done water was running down the crack of my A. First two driveways  I got stuck, as soon as the tires spun ice. I always had sand but it still took some digging. Decided to put chains on, hour later hands frozen, water running down my A. Phone ringing of the hook, where's the plow guy, snowing so hard taking forever to drive between driveways. At least Im not getting stuck, get to one costumer who's neighbor is a jerk and don't want me putting snow on his land, the line is just off the end of my customers drive so I have to turn hard and put snow on customers lawn. Almost done lawn ripped and plowed up, tires sinking in. Jerk neighbor, you put some on my land, now all there is is woods where his land is. I tell him it's in his best interest to go back in the house, he invites me to get out of my truck, didn't have too ask twice. It was so slippery neither one of us could stay on our feet. I finally was able to get a grip on my door and get back in, he was using my back bumper to stand. I yelled get the F back in the house, he did, I plowed the rest of the snow on his land as he watched from his house.

Glad I gave up plowing a few years later, that customer called me a few days later and said they were getting a snowblower for next season, don't worry about the lawn. The last storm we got two weeks ago brought that memory back.

[ri702bill 8,316]

Not eaxctly an April Fool's joke, but one that never got old. After the Automation Company I worked for closed, My old boss and one of his friends, Mark, started their own 2 man show. Problem was my old boss was the seldom seen Sales Bee, and Mark was the worker Bee.... Mark had the tool to lift the buttons off a Microsoft keyboard - every now and then when he had had enough of his partner, Mark would switch 2 sets of buttons on the other guy's keyboard!

The best part was the other guy was a 2 finger hunt and peck typist - would not realize the errors until using spellcheck!! He would throw a fit and grab the spare keyboard out of the closet and plug that one in. "Mark, there's something wrong with my keyboard - can you look at it??" Mark replies"not now, I'm busy - later"

The other guy was always a late arrival at work, that gave Mark the time to switch the buttons back the following morning.. Best part, Mark never told him that is was him messing with his keyboard and it NEVER got old...!!

True story...

Edited April 1, 2023 by ri702bill

[rmaynard 15,444]

April 1st, 51 years ago, I got married.

[Ed Kennell 38,162]

14 minutes ago, rmaynard said:

April 1st, 51 years ago, I got married.

Congrats Bob and Mrs. M.         Would you be fool enough to tell....who got fooled 51 years ago?

[Achto 27,570]

While working at a motorcycle shop, my co-worker was putting together the top end of a Harley engine. After he had the rocker boxes on and was about ready to put the gas tank on to finish the job up I heard "SON OF A B----!!!" I walked over to his bike lift to see what the issue was. When I got over there he is standing there holding a wrist pin clip in his hand. "I forgot to put a wrist pin clip on when I installed the pistons" He tore the engine back down to discover that all of the wrist pins clips were installed. Now he was just furious. 

I never told him that I threw a wrist pin clip on his bike lift when he wasn't looking. 

 

Same guy, same shop a year later. He was helping me push a full dressed Harley from the parking lot into the shop. I'm pushing on the handle bars he's pushing on the back. The whole time he's complaining how hard this bike is to push. When we got it into the shop he was huffing and puffing and took a break. I pushed the bike up onto the lift by myself with no problem. He asked  "How did you push that up there so easily?" This time I admitted that I was riding the front brake and letting him do all the work in the parking lot. 

Edited April 1, 2023 by Achto

[WHX?? 48,815]

Happy anni Bob... me thinks she was the one who got the joker... 

[squonk 41,092]

Not April fools but I had a roommate in college who was a PITA. The whole floor hated him and he STUNK! He would stay up late every night bothering everyone. He had one of those cheap $2 plastic alarm clocks and he set it for like 6AM even though he didn't get up until 10. He would just keep hitting the snooze button. Finally I had enough so I tore his clock apart and moved the hand that set the alarm. So if he set it to 6 it wouldn't ring until 2.  So he kept missing classes . He figured something went haywire with it so he figured out where to set it so it would go off at 6 again. So I changed it so it would go off at 2 again. After a couple of days of that I walked in to see him throwing the clock out the window! 

[rmaynard 15,444]

3 hours ago, Ed Kennell said:

Congrats Bob and Mrs. M.         Would you be fool enough to tell....who got fooled 51 years ago?

 

Well, I got the better of the two halves, but she kept me, so I guess she...

I better leave it right there. 

 

[rmaynard 15,444]

3 hours ago, Achto said:

While working at a motorcycle shop, my co-worker was putting together the top end of a Harley engine. After he had the rocker boxes on and was about ready to put the gas tank on to finish the job up I heard "SON OF A B----!!!" I walked over to his bike lift to see what the issue was. When I got over there he is standing there holding a wrist pin clip in his hand. "I forgot to put a wrist pin clip on when I installed the pistons" He tore the engine back down to discover that all of the wrist pins clips were installed. Now he was just furious. 

I never told him that I threw a wrist pin clip on his bike lift when he wasn't looking. 

 

Same guy, same shop a year later. He was helping me push a full dressed Harley from the parking lot into the shop. I'm pushing on the handle bars he's pushing on the back. The whole time he's complaining how hard this bike is to push. When we got it into the shop he was huffing and puffing and took a break. I pushed the bike up onto the lift by myself with no problem. He asked  "How did you push that up there so easily?" This time I admitted that I was riding the front brake and letting him do all the work in the parking lot. 

 

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Try to fool me a third time and you are taking you life into your own hands.

 

 

Edited April 2, 2023 by rmaynard

[8ntruck 6,999]

I got the robotics team captain with the 'old as dirt' your shoe is untied trick today.  We were at a robotics meet today, standing in the pits discussing an upcoming match.  I casually mentioned that his shoe was united.  He denied it, so I glanced down at his shoe.  He took the bait and looked down, as I reminded him what the date was.

 

Last year, he didn't fall for that gag.  Old age, patience, and treachery won out - again.

[squonk 41,092]

I didn't do this one I was just a friendly observer.

 

Back in my GM days the guy working next to me was replacing an engine in an S-10 Blazer . Normally when one of us did that we'd have parts strewn allover and around the bench. Pretty much everything has to come off unless you raise the body off. He gets the new engine in and is running out of parts to reinstall when he starts pitching a fit. He found the flywheel he had forgotten to install. So he had to tear a lot back down to get the flywheel in.

 

Here's where the joke comes in:

 

A few month's later he's replacing an engine in another vehicle. Another guy across the way was doing the same but was waiting for parts. The first guy is almost done and goes and get a cup of coffee. The 2nd guy grabs the flywheel of of his engine and carries it over to the first guys bench and leans it against the leg of the bench. First guy comes back with his coffee and sees the flywheel and is like WT.... I CAN"T BELIEVE I DID IT AGAIN!!!  Then he calms down remembering he bolted the torque converter up so someone was pulling a fast one on him! 

[Beap52 811]

Many years ago we were building a house and the bricklayers were working on-site.  They would put sand in the bottom of the fireplace to keep any mortar from sticking to the firebrick that might drop as they were laying the chimney.  After the bricklayers left for the day, I went down and gathered up some multi-colored mud and formed it into--well I'll let your imagination as to what it looked like.   I put it in the sand on the floor of the the firebox then backed into the fireplace opening and left my boot prints in the sand. 

 

The next morning we were shingling the roof.  The bricklayer climbed up our ladder, came up on the roof with us mad a all get out.  "SOMEBODY TOOK A DUMP IN MY FIREPLACE!"  He was really ticked and went on and on who would have done such a thing and how that was just awful.....  Johnnie continued to tell us how he made Willie, his hodman scoop it up and take it out and bury it.  He said "Willie said that was the stinkiest thing he every smelled!"   He said "That man's boots were huge and I don't know how a man that big could get back into then firebox and do that"! 

 

CJ and I just sat there listening to him acting like we didn't know a thing.  After Johnnie returned to work, we decided not to let anyone know who the culprits were.  Them boys were much bigger than we and Willie didn't have a pristine record.  Years later we told Johnnie what we had done and we all got a good laugh out of it. 

[TJ5208 1,824]

No story for me.

Edited April 2, 2023 by TJ Salyers

[squonk 41,092]

Same GM garage. The store was owned by a family and it was run by a woman named Jane. Jane had a Schnauzer dog. Can't remember it's name. The General Manager was a nice guy named Pete. Pete wore $1000 suits and his hair was perfect (Like The Werewolf of London)  I think he got it cut every other day. One of Pete's jobs was to take the Schnauzer out to do it's business. Pete went on vacation so that job was passed onto the sales manager who was a dork. 

 

I was working on a used car and found some fake dog poop in the trunk. When Jane went to lunch I snuck into her office and put the fake poop on her nice rug. She came back from lunch and we could hear WWIII starting up in the showroom. They found out it was fake when he went to clean it up so now the hunt was on to find out who did it. Trouble was there was like 8 of us who would have done it. After Jane calmed down I couldn't keep a straight face anymore. She goes YOU!!!! DON'T TELL ME YOU JOINED THE ROMPER ROOM TOO!! 

Edited April 2, 2023 by squonk

[8ntruck 6,999]

The engineer in the cubical next to me used to have a box of notebook paper reinforcement rings in his pencil drawer.  He had spilled them a couple of times by sliding the box open wrong side up.  To solve this, he carefully labeled the top of the box.  Wellll,  this was just too easy.  After he went home one evening, I got the box out, carefully slid the cover off of the box, turned it over, and replaced it in its original position in the drawer.  Was several days before I heard a reaction to that one.  Didn't get caught, either.