April fool's day

[DrummerDeanna]

I HATE April Fools Day. Mostly it seems like day to do cruel things to people for a laugh. I hate cruel humor.

That said, NPR does April Fools stories every year on ATC and they are really funny - so that part is ok.

I was never allowed to "celebrate" it or I guess participate is a more appropriate word....because of a horrid experience my mom had when she was little:

My great-grandma (grandpa's dad) was a mean old lady who hated my grandma. Well on April Fool's Day my mom and aunt were at her house - and my great-grandma told my mom that it would be funny if she ran home and told my grandma (her mom) that my aunt got hit by a car and was dead in the road.

So being a kid my mom did what her grandma told her to do....

Naturally my grandma was FREAKED OUT then madder than a poked hornet. No April Fool's day in my family from that year forward.