Foster’s April Fool’s Day follies remembered and shared

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Editor’s note: we had one submission for what we were hoping would be a full page of memories shared of past pranks and hijinks. The lack of stories aside, we got this particularly hilarious memory from Northside Elementary teacher and Cedartown Commissioner Matt Foster. If we missed any by mistake, we apologize. -KM

You want April Fools? Sit down.

My first good one, my grandmother helped me make a red velvet cake to take to work; only instead of a real cake, we made red-dyed cornbread, and covered it in icing. I took it to work (Northside Elementary), and set it out for my teacher friends to “enjoy.”

Last year, I brought doughnuts with “powdered sugar” (baking soda) and watched from afar as teacher after teacher fell right into my trap.

The year before, I brought a pair of jeans and work boots and set them up in the teachers’ restroom stall…I draped the jean over the cuffs of the boots to make it look like a man was in there all day, sitting on the toilet (you could see his “legs” from the space under the stall door).

After about four hours of the restroom being occupied by this stranger, another teacher finally busted in the office, saying “I’ve walked in there several times this morning, and that man is STILL sitting on the toilet; I asked if he was okay, and he won’t answer me!”

My best one nearly started an international incident between friendly nations.

A Canadian friend of mine and I started pranking each other years ago in Montreal, and when I came back to Cedartown, he pranked me online. He thought he was so clever, signing-up my email address on a Jewish dating service; so of course, I had to get my revenge.

A few years ago on March 31, while he slept soundly in his bed 800 miles away, I was wide awake and online in Cedartown, putting together an advertisement on Craigslist.

I wrote that I had all these hard-to-find items for sale, including expensive music equipment, furniture, decor, and I topped it off with tickets to the Montreal NHL team’s home games, at a ridiculously great price.

At the end of the Craigslist post, I included my friend’s phone number. Then I called it a night, and slept like a baby.

The next morning around 10, I received a phone call from my Canadian friend, letting me know that after having to apologize to the first twenty callers, he finally let his voicemail take over.

He received over 300 calls that day, mostly from people wanting those great hockey tickets, and he spent hours clearing-out his voice mails, only to have them fill right back up.

He hasn’t messed with me since.

April Fools should be a federal holiday. The best pranks do no harm, are not mean-spirited, and can be appreciated instantly; unless you’re a Canadian who messes with me.

Source: Cedartown Standard

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