I just heard of a customer getting nailed by a dandy April Fool's joke- customer called, reamed him for about 5 minutes about an install that he KNEW went fine, then at the end, the guy gave a classic pregnant pause then yelled "APRIL FOOL!!"
I know it's cruel, but they are (usually) funny after the fact...
-------------------- Steve Burke Cascades Inc NS Canada
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you Posts: 359 | From: NS Canada | Registered: Jan 2002
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My shop alarm was malfunctioning this morning. I noted the squeeling was coming from the smoke alarm. I ripped the sucker out of the ceiling. (literally, wires are still dangling) Didn't work. (doh!)
I called the alarm company while this thing is squeeling, Cody getting disciplined to STAY OFF my signs on the floor (that didn't work either and resulted in Cody joining in the squeeling), then getting an operator who took my whole sob story, ended up that she couldn't help anyway, so I had to start all over with someone else while all this dreaded squeeling is piercing our ears.
Then suddenly the thing stops. Cody stops. I stop. I heard no "April Fools!" from anywhere within this malfunctioning system, but I'd qualify this incident somewhere in the April Fools catagory anyway.
And good morning to all of you! (I need coffee BAD. Gotta go)
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I called my daughter tonight - she's in Panama City Beach on Spring Break - and I asked how things were going. She informed me that she had gotten a tattoo. Knowing she has a low pain threshold and suspecting a scam, I asked if it hurt. She came back quick with "I don't know, I was too drunk to notice." Ha, ha - what a jokester (I hope)
-------------------- www.signcreations.net Sonny Franks Lilburn, GA 770-923-9933 Posts: 4115 | From: Lilburn, GA USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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OH man... did Bruce ever get me good last year - so good, in fact, that no April Fools joke should ever be attempted, because nothing can top it (and he also fears for his life...!!!)
As most of you know, I left my ex the previous fall - and it wasn't pretty. He got sorta nasty on the phone with me while I was staying at my parents house.
I eventually moved out here - keeping details secret so he couldn't find me. He did call and bug my parents a few times, but they wouldn't give him the info. To make a long story short, there was a time when he said he would find me.
April Fool's Day came around, and that evening the phone rings - Bruce answered. I hear the following half of the conversation:
"Yea, she's here... who is this??
WHO IS THIS????"
Followed by a somewhat ranting short conversation, which has got me convinced that my ex finally figured out where I was...
Bruce hands me the phone and stomps out of the room, visibly upset. I compose myself, trying to figure out in my head before I answer the phone what the heck I'm gonna say...
I pick up the phone and quietly say... "hello??"
Followed by a pause...
Then I hear Bruce's voice on the other end..."APRIL FOOLS!!!!"
Without me realizing it, he had called our home phone from his cell phone in the other room!! Yep... took me a few days, but I got over it.
But he KNOWS he had better not even TRY to top that one, out of self-preservation, ya know...
-------------------- Dana Ferry St Cloud, MN Posts: 1556 | From: St Cloud, MN | Registered: May 1999
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Oh, man, bad Bruce....to the basement with ya!!!!
I got a call yesterday from Floyd in North Carolina.....he told me this rediculous story.......haha....got me....after I hung up ( I was out on a huge wall job) I had a good laugh, mostly, be cause his NC accent made the story so much funnier!!! Thanks Floyd....you made my day! A:)
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My friend and fellow sign artist, Bob Partlow, came over yesterday with a file he needed me to print for him on my Edge. Its a very long list of donor names for a new library sign, some sort of plaque. He started complaining about how many days it took him to enter all this very small text, Bob's not the fastest typer, and how many times he had to correct mistakes and get reapproved and so on. I opened the file, looked at it for a minute and with a very serious tone, said "Youre gonna have to re-type all this". I said I was kidding pretty quickly because he looked like he may have been having a heart attack.
-------------------- Chuck Peterson Designs San Diego, CA Posts: 1052 | From: San Diego, CA USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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story.......haha....got me....after I hung up ( I was out on a huge wall job) I had a good laugh, mostly, be cause his NC accent made the story so much funnier!!!
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