Similar to December, the joy of stepping into the month of April is plenty and at times, overwhelming. The joy comes from the thoughts of our friends and family's reaction when we prank them and tell them April fools while laughing like we just won the lottery.
During my kid days, I used to start my pranks during the ending of March because I can't actually wait. When it's March 29, I will start pranking people, mainly my friends.
Speak of March, when I was a kid, there was one trend that happens during the early days of March. When I ask my friends what the month is and they tell me that it's March, I will step on their foot and run away while they pursue me. You get? The month is March and they asked me to "march," so, I marched them. Most times, I do forget that it's March, and I get a taste of my own medicine.
It's really amazing how we had fun when we were kids. No phones, laptops, mobile games, not even a big television, but we were very happy in each other's company. To me, that's the most perfect childhood I could ever get.
When I came to work this morning, before the arrival of patients, my colleague and I were reminiscing of the days when we pranked our friends and when we were equally pranked.
Coming online to see this prompt is actually nice. The organizer heard my conversation and wanted me to talk about it through my fingers.
One of the major fun activities I did when I was a kid was to prank people during the month of April. I have been pranked countless of times, and I have pranked other people too. That's the fun of it. Though it's cool to be the guy pranks other people, but it's sad and embarrassing to be the pranked. Haha.
In many families, the father is responsible for disciplining the kids. When the father comes back home, order is restored, rooms are arranged and everyone becomes a well behaved child, but that's not the same for my family.
Instead of my dad, my mom is the one in charge of every disciplinary actions. One look from my mom can send shivers down our spines and restore order to the house. I've said this in a previous post I made - my mom is a type of person that believes that; "it is better to break your legs and you become useful than for you to have your entire body intact but be useless to yourself and the society." ~ my mom.
With full knowledge of this, I do use it to trick my elder brother when the month of April arrives.
My elder brother another stubborn person we have in the house. At a very young age, he goes out and comes back very late in the night, sometimes, by 10pm or 11pm. My mom on the other hand will stay awake with a car engine belt prepared to serve as a cane. Untill the cane breaks in his body, she will not let him go.
One day, he went out again without taking permission from my mother. He stayed out late and my mom asked me to check in his usual spots to see if he's there so that she'll sneak up to him and start the flogging from there (she does this a lot). I went to the different places where I know he used to be, but he was not there, so, I came back to report.
One thing led to another, and she decided to call her good friend. She asked if my elder brother was there, and her friend confirmed, so, she became at ease and her anger vanished. She trusted her friend, and that was the only place we could go and stay till the next day without having to face her wrath. She may just scold us if we don't tell her before we went.
So, my brother came back that same day but very late. By mom was already sleeping, but I was awake, playing with my kid bro.
When I saw my elder brother, I began to infuse fear into him by telling him how prepared my mom was, to flog the living hell out of him for going out without telling her.
I told him that she tied to canes (car engine belt) together, she prepared a mixture of warm water and pepper. I also told him that there was a rope that was prepared to tie him up while he received the beating. I took him round to show him the materials (which I placed myself to make the prank realistic).
Fear gripped him as he began to ask many questions. He even refused to eat his dinner. (One thing I love my mom, no matter how annoyed she is, she will never starve her children). Throughout the night, he could not sleep because he was scared that my mom would wake up in the night and commence the beating.
When morning came, I reminded my brother about what I told him last night and he became even more afraid. when I saw that the fear was getting overwhelming for him, I shouted April fool and bursted out laughing with my little brother.
Though the fear subsided, my brother still didn't believe me. When my mom woke up, she behaved normal and was not hostile towards him. She asked about what time he came back, and he told her. She just gave a light scolding and asked him not to come back by that time again. That was when my elder brother relaxed and started behaving normal. He came into the room and began to shout angrily while I was laughing with my other brother. I ran away from the room and went to my mom cause' I know that he can't hit me when I'm with her.
It was a very good experience and it actually made my day. Even up till date, I do tease him with that experience.
Though some people take things too far, April fool, just as Christmas, has become a very vital part of the society. I don't think it should be removed from the society as most of us had good memories and are making good memories with it.
Thank you for reading.