I have begun my plans for April Fools 2016. Every year I trick my boys….majorly. It’s gotten so bad that last year I found a purple post-it note on my sons’ shelf that said “April Fools Day-don’t be fooled”. Last years trick involved barbies, Teen Beat magazine and the frozen song. I’ll post that a little later this week. If you promise not to commit me, I will let you in on the first round of brainstorming.
Code name: BAG LADY
PLAN
I will hire a large, older lady from one of the many local theaters for April Fools between the hours of 2 am and 7 pm. I have taken the necessary precautions and confirmed the holiday is on a Friday and they are not off of school for some ridiculous reason.
PLOT
I will welcome the boys into the house like normal but ask them to sit down on the sofa because I need to tell them something. First, I will walk them through what it means to be generous and how we can find ways to help others, you know, blah, blah, blah. I will then tell them the story of how I was going through the drive-through at Wendy’s when I saw a Birkenstock clad foot peeping from behind the trash compactor wall. I was concerned for this person’s safety so I went over to check on them only to find Maude. Yes, I’ve decided to call her Maude. Don’t know why, it just came to me.
I want her to only wear moo-moos. For extra credit she will have those creepy glasses that turn from regular glasses to sunglasses outside. She needs to be loud, bossy and not grandmotherly at all. She will also have an obsession with cats.
I will continue telling the boys (this will be the fork in the road of either I lose my shit to a fit of laughter or continue with a well rehearsed poker face) that there were 3 kittens, all white, meowing around Maude. One was licking her face while the other was eating a chicken nugget that laid lifelessly in Maude’s hand. Maude was either asleep or dead and I needed to find out.
YWCA
I will let them know that Maude was recently evicted from the YWCA because of smuggling in Macklemore, Eminem and Yelawolf, aka, da’ kittens. She has nowhere to go for a week. Her daughter is working fast to make enough in tips to afford a bus ticket to Myrtle Beach.
Macklemore, Eminem and Yelawolf
“I know this is going to be somewhat cramped and you guys weren’t expecting this but I have offered Maude a roof over her head for 1 week. We have that air mattress and she will share a room with you guys. I figure we’ll put all of her things in one of your rooms and she can sleep in the other. I hear CPAP machines are pretty loud so whoever is her roommate, I will give you a set of earplugs. Maude is using your bathroom right now to take a bath but should be down any minute.”
This will be the que for Maude to make her grand entrance. It is imperative that she has one of her moo-moos on, creepy glasses and waddles (not walks) over. I need to find a way to photograph the look of disdain and fright on the boys’ faces when they meet Maude for the first time. They will be on guard since it is April Fools Day and wonder if this is yet another prank. Surely mom isn’t crazy enough to hire a very realistic actress to prank us. Because I’ve taught my children polite behavior, they will know better than to question Maude’s unfortunate circumstances or my act of goodwill.
Maude the Polite April Fools Guest
At first, I want Maude to be the sweet, polite guest allowing the boys to become comfortable with her. Once they are, then I want Maude to start barking orders and playing the “respect your elders” card at the same time. Various requests I would love for Maude to demand:
“Can you rub my foot? I have circulation issues.”
“Can you go upstairs and get my fanny pack?”
“Will you help me find my golden buckeye card? It should be in my purse.” Her purse will be a prop that is loaded with cookie crumbs, m & m’s, her pocketbook, a laminated A Cat Owners Prayer card and a back issue of Cat Fancy.
P and C’s rooms will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. I have decided the air mattress will be set up in C’s room. The mattress will be neatly made, complete with one of those bedspreads from the 1940’s and topped with embroidered cat pillows. Maude will have already put out tomorrow’s change of clothing which will be moo-moo #2, skin colored, massive old lady underwear and a cross your heart double Z bra.
In P’s room we will stow the luggage and all the cat things. Perhaps I need to check on E-bay for paraphernalia. Maybe I can borrow a cat tree from a neighbor and put that in his room. Again, live cats are still on the bargaining table.
I will need to acquire an immense amount of cat paraphernalia over the next 2 months. The first thing that came to me were cat pillows for some reason. I will buy the following products and stock in the boy’s bathroom: Hemmorhoid Suppositories, TENA Serenity Overnight Pads, past copies of AARP and Gold Bond.
Dinner With our April Fools Guest
When not wearing her signature moo-moo, I will have a Hanes sweatshirt with the most obnoxious cat image one has ever seen. I will pair this monstrosity with turquoise, elastic waist sweatpants, 1 size too small.
We will sit down at 4 for a hearty meal of peas and spaghetti noodles.
“I told Maude that because she is our guest, she gets to decide what was for dinner for the next few nights. Tomorrow is liver and onions. Now I don’t know how to make liver and onions but Maude has promised to show me”, I’ll say as I smile at Maude and the boys look at me horrified. I know it’s considered a talent to be able to cry on demand as an actor. I hope belching and farting on demand is an option too because I want Maude to do both during dinner.
After dinner, I think I’ll ask Maude to launch into a story that is not only unbearably long, but one that makes you feel extremely uncomfortable regarding the topic. I’m down with Maude adlibbing or I can create a story for her to memorize. I want it to be very Nutty Proffessor-esque when the family was sitting around the table discussing the topic of relations. I’m kind of going back and forth between an infected wart on her big toe or freezing her elder cat, C-Diddy.
I would now like to open the space up now for BAG LADY brainstorming, ideas and comments.
Sweet baby Jesus you are a little cray cray! lol and I -LOVE- IT! hehe! Are you seriously going to do this?
April fools has never been anything special in my family. This one year my brother and I told our parents that we popped their waterbed. I used to be able to cry on command so we were very convincing. April 1st is my dad’s birthday so that kind of over shadows the pranks lol
After holding back, I blew it and read this story to them because I couldn’t keep it in anymore. I think this worked to my benefit because now they think my idea has already been uncovered. This makes it even better b/c I intend to do far worse, I just haven’t figured out what worse is. It’s never mean spirited, just elaborate and funny. Stay tuned to what I did last year!
I can’t wait to hear all about it!! And to read about last year as well 🙂
Too funny!! It’s a shame we don’t live in the same area. I’d let you borrow my 79yo mother who would pull off the polite and old-lady demanding characteristics to a tee as that’s how she operates anyway. Don’t forget the hard of hearing thing… would be kind of cool if Maude’s teeth could “slip” or fall out during dinner. That’s kind of horrifying for a kid. AND, if she does have false teeth, it would be hilarious if the boys walked in on her while she was cleaning them… or she could just do it at the kitchen sink. Can’t wait to hear all about it!!
I blew it! I told them what I was planning on doing b/c I couldn’t stop laughing. Soooo…..the slate is clean and I’m ready to have my best year yet. Soon I will be posting my “Frozen” theme April Fools from last year. It was a doozy!
Awww, darn! Fabulous idea though!! And I can see how it would be hard to keep a straight face!!
I lost it after the kitten names.
LOL! Oh my word! your poor kids… But that is hilarious!!!!! You have to find a way to video that day!!!
Ha! All done in good fun. 2 years ago I had a massive empty box shipped to my home claiming I had won a bike from a bogus contest we entered. The entry was a phony video I had them do of a fake commercial. When I had them open the box and crawl into it, the only thing in it was a paper that read APRIL FOOLS. They were NOT pleased. Last year was a Frozen theme that I will be posting soon.
I love it! I think its great!!! I wish I could come up with some great ideas like that!!
Oh my word, you are some sort of April Fool’s Day genius! It would have been funny if Maude had decided not to leave though 😉
thank you!!! But yes, like move in or something? Ha!!
Yes, exactly haha. It sounds like a movie plot – April Fool’s joke gone awry!
I think you messed up when you named the kittens Macklemore and Eminem — it is quite OBVIOUS that these names should have been reversed. Sh*t, now I pissed at hell that you couldn’t hold your mess together and pull this off. Damn it! I <3 cats and was so looking forward to see what happened with this story. I finally had something to live for … now you've ruined it!
I hope you think of a another good or better (good luck) April Fool's story! I will continue to live as you plot your next ploy. In the meantime, I will go feed my controlling cats. I am only 48 cats away from being a crazy cat lady (I currently have two cats). Hubs has put the kibosh on having more cats than humans. Unfortunately, we have limits in OUR family. 🙁
Looking forward to 4/1/2016 Hotmessmemoir's blog entry.
Wait…what? Are we thinking Odell or Farell then? That would be kinda’ amazing. I need ideas here.
Sh*t man … you don’t need ideas! Your brain is so big it’s about to explode! You need a knowledge download … like drink some alcohol so you can dumb it down! 😉
But me drinky some alcohol right now. As pretentious as it sounds…..from a box.
Box is fine. I served it at my wedding … under the bartender table of course. Only problem with boxed wine is that is comes out too slowly. There isn’t anything wrong with the quality — it actually can be better because there is less air contact to degrade the wine. And screwtops for wine bottles are fine also. Too much cork is being used up … just a nature thing and now we’re completely off topic! Also there is a problem with “cork taint”. Drink up!
Here’s something for you: http://www.wineanorak.com/corks/introduction.htm
Cheers!
Couldn’t agree with you more. It reduces the carbon foot print….or whatever.
Cork taint = yuck. Screw top = easy access to wine. Box wine = bargain and to teach others not to be judgmental about boxed wine.
Cheers again! 🙂
PS: You have so many posts that I will have to catch up on tomorrow! Can you take a break and go clean your house or something? I’m behind in reading all your posts (et al)? Just wondering …
This April Fools needs to be epic. You guys are coumting on it and let’s be real, so am I. It’s gonna need unicorns and something completely random lime
this posted before i could correct. As I was saying, unicorns and something random like the cast of Facts of Life or something.
I wish we hung out!! 😀 Haha. Love it. I’m terrible at thinking up pranks.
Ah, thank you! Pranks are the best…contingent you are not on the receiving end.
You are crazy lady. I read the previous comments though, and saw that you broke down and read the post to your sons. This would have been so funny to read about what happened. I’ll have to find the post of what you really did for April Fool’s Day, 2016!
OMG….I know…I couldn’t keep it in. It was too funny to me. I really wish I would have though!
An absolute stunner and awesome way to go. As Jennifer said, I will have to read the real story as well. Flipped this
Please let me know if you need the link because it involves a video of the entire thing.
Yes please and thank you !
Enjoy!! https://hotmessmemoir.com/2017/04/02/operation-prank-my-sons-code-word-tat-a-success/
Awesome – thanks, will look at it tonight, as I am off to work now.
Have a great day!!
Toe fungus would be a great topic for Maude to discuss. Right before you get the boys lined up to do a foot massage. You are a genius! And this is hilarious.
I think she should smell of pee… she’s being paid so you can make her! She should scratch her pits snort and twitch at the same time and repeat every ten minutes. Get her to wink and tap her nose each time you look away as if there is a secret between her and the kids. Oh i am loving this… pay my plane fare I will be her!
OMG! If I were rich, you’d be on the first plane to Columbus, Ohio, prepared to be the nastiest woman on Earth! I just don’t know how I’m going to top this past year or even my idea from last year.
I’m having a hard time thinking of an appropriate comment (laughing so hard makes it tough to type). Let me just say that I once told my daughter that I was married before (true) and that I had several other children from that marriage (so not true). The look on her face! I wouldn’t recommend too many practical jokes like ours, though. Remember that they turn into teenagers, when they totally pay us back — and then some.
I am so sad that you blew this! It would have been SUCH a good story! I mean it is pretty amazing just as a possible scenario… 🙂
You need to do this next April Fool’s Day!