Give your secretary administrative assistant a note after lunch that reads: L.C. DeCauw called and wants you to call her back. Then write down the number for your local Borden Milk Company. Gets ‘em every time!

We have done so many over the yrs. Our motto is Go Big or Go Home!!! This has a few listed but they have been the talk of the neighborhood, HS, even church !!

Long, but worth it (imho).

As our teenage daughter (the oldest) was sleeping we tied the yellow construction caution tape (not sticky) all around her bedroom. Since she is such a deep sleeper we were able to string it so thick like a web that she really had to work to even get out of bed let alone.

Same day we did the same to our neighbors front yard. We connected the garage to his suv in the driveway — the garage door to the front tree — the front door handle to …. you get it yellow everywhere. Honestly it looked like a crazy crime scene at first glance. It was easy clean up but had a big impact. We spent extra time on his vehical. Made sure the tape was not so quick and easy to get off. The wipers were tied to the door handle – his luggage rack on top only made it better for us. I still remember my husband and I hiding and waiting outside for Art to come out. All the neighbors drove by real slow to see. My husband always leaves earlier so he stayed late for this one. We came out and had a huge laugh with them. Yes, we stayed and helped with the clean up. We are friends after all.

Put chicken boulion into the showerhead. Same daughter as above – HS yrs. My husband tightned it as best he could but it wouldn’t have a tight seal. We were pretty sure she would not fall for this one. She went in for her usual morning shower – she got in and was trying to tighten the shower head since some water was squirting out. She came down to the kitchen and asked her dad to come and tighten the connections since it was squirting out. So he went up was able to tighten it down a bit a temp fix for her (boulion was still there — it was the block not powder — she got back in and finished her shower. She went to school as usual. That night we started asking a few questions trying to get her to connect the shower with a prank. She said I thought I smelled chicken but then figured it must have been something else and kept showering. We went up and removed the remaing boulion cube. She couldn’t get over the fact that some was still there. That ment all the soap, shampoo she used was rinsed out with broth. She couldn’t believe we let her go to school like that.

Our middle child (around 8-9) also a good solid sleeper. We waited untill she was fast asleep in her bed to transport her to the bathroom tub !!!! I had laid pillows and blankets all over to make it soft. We didnt want her to roll over and clunk her head. It worked perfectly. When she woke she was in the tub and it took her abit to get her berrings. She came down to the kitchen to tell us what happened – she didn’t realize April Fools – just perplexed on how she got there. When we started laughing she figured it out. She still loves that one.

Oldest daughter, Senior yr. She was pretty popular, played sports, involved with school stuff – everyone knows her and her car well. I went to the a local shop that sells donated items for hardly anything – to help the community. I found the largest pair of grandma undies ever, and a bra also oh, and something black. I think it was 3 bucks total. Then my friend and I went to the HS parking lot and found her car. We could do something to the front of her car since she would walk up to it from the rear (never see the front). Well we stuffed newspaper into the cups of the bra and streached it across her front grill, taped it on and got out of there. I was suprised how at well it showed up. The newspaper added some dimension. She got out and took some friends out to get lunch and went back to school. She had to drive through campus since she parked in that location. Lucky huh ?? Later she drove to a few places in town before coming home. When she got out of her car at home she finially saw it. Oh my what a hoot. She could hardly bear the thought of driving all around with that big bra. It was all good though, she knows we love to pull pranks. This was a big one.

Since we could not use the panties on her car (she would have noticed them) they were left over…..

We also hung some fancy black + lacy undergarments out of the back of a dear friends mini van. She had errands to run.

Well, I didn’t get my husband that yr at all. I wanted to connect the huge undies to his front grill of his big man truck but after thinking of him driving up to the jobs where the guys would see – well I just couldn’t do it – I do have a limit after all !!!!!!! I love this man dearly.

NEXT DAY —- April 2nd. All is free and clear I made it through the day without falling victim. My day goes as usual. Take middle child to school and then I go and pick her up. This school has a loooong carpool line and it moves pretty slow since they have staff members make sure each child gets to the correct adult (safety). Any way. I am up at the front doors – aahhh there is my little cutie – I dont even have to get out since they open the doors say a quick hi and send us off. Very nice. Before we leave middle child says to me Mom you have something wrong with your car. The some teachers saw IT and told her to her tell me. Well, I am thinking is something wrong with my car??? The very car I love so dearly. Silver Eclipse – super cute car. Was my muffler falling off or something worse (I really loved this car) so I was a bit worried. I get back there and see those HUGE WHITE UNDIES HANGING OUT OF MY TRUNK !!!!! I was so shocked to say the least – this is the 2nd – no pranks allowed thats the rule. Well I was stunned, shocked and OH MY then I realized I sat 30 min. each time am + pm in the carpool line and had no idea what I was sporting in the back. My husband and the kids got together and set this up. They figured I am always watching and expecting it on the 1st – I would never suspect anything on the 2nd. So true. My oldest loved loved it that she got me back with my own props. I have to say I deserved it. The bra thing was a whopper even for our family!!! We still laugh so hard when we remember.

We have so much fun and never want to go to far but yet get each other good. I have done some great ones at work and we hit the oldest with one on her 16th birthday.

Thanks for letting me walk down memory lane – we have such a fun loving family and they have not disowned me yet. I am a lucky woman.

Have a great day,
Donna

1. Telling the kids the amusement park has been re-located.

2. Ketchup on the finger. Ouch.

3. Fake fly in the coffee.
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An April Fool-
Feels silly and uncool.
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Mary Elizabeth Rumsey
Three by M.E./Rhymes of the Times
Porter, Texas

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The second one was about the “Whistling Carrots” My daughter came into the kitchen with a carrot and it had a bunch of holes in it. She said that the Cargill corp. had developed these genetically engineered carrots to whistle when they were boiled! That they wanted kids to have fun with vegetibles and when boiled…they would whistle. then I told her about the left handed Whopper from Burger King..then she told that Big Ben in London was going to replace the clock dial with a huge digital read out…then I told her about the recalled underwire bra that were made with copper and would heat up and burn the wearer…we went back and forth…chip off the old block!