From: Jenny
To: Jay
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 2:10 PM
Subject: bad news
The accountant just called… it turns out he mis-typed one of the numbers on our tax return when I was there. He just re-did it and we actually OWE $980.bummer.
I wait an hour, but no response. Another hour goes by… still nothing.
I pace back and forth. I check my email. Nothing.
When will he respond?
Finally, at 5:10, I call him.
Jay: Hello?
Me: Hi! It’s me.
Jay: Oh. Hi. (sounds very gloomy)
Me: Did you get my email?
Jay: You mean about our taxes? That we actually OWE money instead of getting $5,000 back? (sounds super-duper down in the dumps)
Me: APRIL FOOL’S!
(SILENCE)
Yeah, I totally got him.
But isn’t April Fool’s day supposed to be fun? Cause from over here it just feels kind of MEAN.
Hmph.
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April 1, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Oh painful! You owe him, Bon-Bon!
April 1, 2008 at 9:54 pm
That’s better than telling him you won the lottery. I’d rather be freaked out and then relieved any day.
April 1, 2008 at 10:49 pm
I tried to tell my husband I was pregnant.
He looked at me and told me I have to go poop. That is a new saying in our house, so I thought about it for a second and realized that he was telling me that I was full of crap.
Yeah, April Fools Day prank- fowled.
April 2, 2008 at 7:43 am
Oh,that was a bit mean. I’d kick Wally’s butt if he did that to me. Oh wait! I have to handle ALL financial dealings in our life. sigh
April 2, 2008 at 8:46 am
brilliant!!
April 2, 2008 at 9:27 am
But on the bright side, THEY STILL OWE YOU MONEY, hooray. That never happens to us. Sigh. :D
April 2, 2008 at 2:15 pm
If my husband did that to me I definitely would not have laughed. Money = no laughing matter.
Of course, it would have been kind of fun to do it to him…
April 2, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Mr. AFRo would have killed me. Seriously.
April 2, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Oh my gosh you’re terrible. Did he laugh? I think my husband would have exploded.
April 2, 2008 at 4:29 pm
My sister always pulls an April Fools joke on my mom. This year she told her she was calling off her wedding. My mom found that very NOT FUNNY. I thought that was way meaner than yours, so don’t feel so bad!!
April 2, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Ouch!!
April 3, 2008 at 5:15 am
If he fell for that, on April Fool’s Day, he deserved the discomfort!
April 6, 2008 at 11:21 am
HA! That’s GOOOOOOOD!