Reply #21: My only successful April Fool joke [View All]

[Lydia Leftcoast]

When I was in seventh grade, there was a frequent substitute teacher, whom I will refer to as Mrs. Barnum, although that was not her real name, and she was universally hated because she always walked into the classroom looking as if she was just waiting for an excuse to bite someone's head off. No offense was too trivial to set her off.

So that April 1, I arrived at school a little early, put my stuff away, and walked towards my first hour class, English. I got to the doorway, stopped as if shocked, and ran back to the locker area, where a bunch of classmates were standing around talking.

"You guys!" I said in a stage whisper. "We've got Barnum for English!"

They all groaned and moaned, and a couple of them started talking about skipping first hour. They even told some newly arrived classmates the "bad news."

The warning bell rang, and so we all trudged off to class, with everyone except me expecting to be chewed out for cutting our arrival time too close.

Of course, our regular English teacher was seated at his desk as always.

April Fool!