The thing about April Fool's Day is that it's not nearly as much fun when you're grown up and living alone. My sister and I used to get a kick out of pulling pranks on our mom (for some reason, I don't recall us ever playing tricks on one another). There was the year we put a rubber band around the kitchen sink sprayer so that it sprayed her in the face when she switched the faucet on. Then there were the times I set my mom's alarm clock and watch backwards or forwards to confuse her in the morning. We also never pulled tricks on Dad. Mom was always the target. I think there was also an episode with an exchange of salt and sugar. And then, in college, I called her and told her I was eloping to vegas with a boy I met at the coffee shop that afternoon. Now that I'm living alone, there's no one to prank. Nothing to watch out for either. Anyways, because of this I especially enjoy Google's yearly jokes. It must be so much fun to work with such a creative group of people. If you haven't read about CADIE yet, you should. It's hilarious.
I encountered this quote the other day and it's exactly how writing is for me. Yet I'm compelled to keep at it.
"A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." - Thomas Mann
My siblings and I used to play pranks on each other too. We would go into each other's rooms and turn everything upside down, things like that. I miss that sometimes.
ReplyDeleteI must have had the most boring childhood, no pranks received or delivered. I guess that I was paranoid without it. :)
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