Hive-Reachout weekly prompt 41//April Fool

Hello beautiful family of hive, this is Hive-Reachout weekly prompt 41. I welcome once again to a happy new month and to my space, I still remain @joshel. This week’s topic on the hive-reachout prompt is tagged “April fool” and I’m excited to share with you the little experience I’ve had and encounter with this topic.

April fool which is often an annual event that is observed every 1st April of the year is a day where friends, families, colleagues play pranks and make jokes on each other just to have fun.

I’ve not really experience pranks on April fool day before but I have pranked someone(my girlfriend) and my mom have been pranked by my neighbour before. These are the two occurrences that I can talk about.

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It was at the early hours of the morning around 7am when my neighbour rushed into our house and meet my mom. He told her that the doctor in the primary health care center within our community want to see her and that it was an emergency, she should hurry up and come to the medical center immediately. He also added that someone was rushed to the hospital and the person demanded to see her (my mom). My mom was trying to ask him who the person was and what could possibly be the issue but my neighbour was insisting that my mom should live whatever she is doing and rush to the center, it could be an emergency. He was too good with his acting you may never guess he was joking.

You know how some women can be when they receive such news. My mom without hesitation, didn’t even washed herself nor brush her mouth, hurriedly took my shirt and wrapper and head straight to the medical center. I accompanied her behind. On reaching there, she found out that the centre was still close, then she went to the doctor’s house since it was close and met the doctor. He asked her why she was here so early in the morning like that, hope all is well and she replied “you send for me sir”. He was confused and he replied “I didn’t send for you ma. It could be that someone is playing a prank on you since is 1st of April”. That was when my own consciousness came back to me. We returned home and when my neighbour saw us coming, he began to laugh and said “April fool”. My mom was angry inwardly but at the same time laughing about it then told him not repeat it again, he almost gave her a heart attack.

The second experience was when I pranked my girlfriend. It happens that on the night before April fool day, my girlfriend went to school to read and decided to go to her friends’ hostel to spend the night there. When she returned home the next day which was April fool day, I changed my countenance and pretend to be angry. I then ask her where she was coming from. She replied “I went to school to read and decided to sleep over at my friends’ hostel. I was like why are you lying, you were not in school yesterday, you went to see someone, a guy precisely. My friends who knew what I was doing decided to add fuel to the fire by saying, we saw you yesterday walking with a guy to his house, stop lying. She was trying to explain herself and was like she slept in her friends’ hostel and we should call her friend and ask her if actually she was there. Why are we lying on her now? Before you know tears started dropping down from her eyes. I still maintain my composure and told her lets’ call your friend and confirm the truth. Unknown to her, my guys have already call her friend and ask her to act normal and comply. So when we called her friend and ask her if my girlfriend slept in her hostel yesterday, she replied No!!! I haven’t see her throughout yesterday. She(my girlfriend) was confused and could not think that it was a prank. Innocent her, she boasted in tears. I could no longer hold myself anymore and boasted out in laughing and we shouted April fool. My God, she was so mad at us that day and refused talking to anyone throughout. I apologize tire that day until towards evening she decided to speak. It was an awesome experience and I’ve never seen her so emotionally like that.

That’s the two experience I’ve had and encounter so far in my life about April fool. In as much as playing pranks and jokes to people especially love ones can be fun, sometimes we need to be very conscious of the kind of prank or joke we are about putting on and most importantly, know the kind of person we are about playing such pranks and joke on, their emotional state, the way they will react and the possible outcome. Let’s play safe and be cautious.. Peace.