The Glorious Fool

01-04-2010

Today is April Fool's day and you just know that The Jester likes this day. A day where you are required to prank people? Come on, that's like Jester Christmas!

Now, today, I was gotten by the lady friend who played on my good nature with this and I will admit that I was gotten fair and square.

Of course this could not stand, so I planned my revenge. See today just happens to be the day that the company I work for shut up shop as it was acquired (trust me I now know the meaning of that word after the two hour meeting we just had, it wasn't a merger it was an acquisition) by another company.

After the meeting, before I fully lost the will to live, I decided to prank the lady friend. I told her over chat that the meeting had been shit. That the new company has a group that does the exact same role as the group I currently work in and that they had given us a sixty day notice of work termination. I laid it on thick. In fact I laid it on so thick that she started to curse with worry, something that she never does. Curse that is, not worry.

Anyhow after a few minutes of this I figured I had my fun and owned up that it was an April Fool.

However I get told "April fools is dead and gone your the fool that carried it on" because it was past midday.

This point I argued, having no idea what the hell she was talking about. There is no time limit on April Fool's!

Supposedly you cannot do an April Fool after noon. I sought clarification on the rule and was given this link. Reading through the article it turns out that yes, it is true, you can't do a prank after noon.

In the United Kingdom.

But the very next line says that in Ireland the pranks can go on all day.

Now, last time I checked I was living in Ireland, born in Ireland and on the landmass that is Ireland. It is true that the lady friend was born in the North, which would count as the UK, so she had the correct form of the rule but just applied it in the wrong situation.

So how do you decide it? One person has grown up with one rule, another has grown up with a different rule and both are currently living and working in the land that the second rule is valid in. Being a person that likes to win I was adamant that the Ireland rule was the one we were using. Being a person that hates to lose, herself was claiming the UK rule.

I reckon we can call it a draw, just to put an end to the madness. Anyone else what to wade in on it?

Blue_jester

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