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\"harley-quinn\"<\/a>Last night, Katherine asked across the dinner table, “Is it okay, since tomorrow is April Fool’s, if I do some pranks?”<\/p>\n

“Like what?”<\/p>\n

“I don’t know.”<\/p>\n

I pondered a moment.\u00a0 “It’s okay, if<\/em> …”\u00a0 I started ticking off on my fingers.\u00a0 “… it doesn’t make a mess.\u00a0 And if it doesn’t hurt anyone.”\u00a0 There, I thought.\u00a0 That covers the bases.<\/p>\n

Kay pondered some more.<\/p>\n

“And,” I suddenly piped up, “only if the person would be likely to laugh about it as soon as they learn the joke.”\u00a0 Yeah, gotta cover the emotionally harmful pranks, too.<\/p>\n

She nodded.\u00a0 “What about … something with whipped cream?”<\/p>\n

I gave her an eye.\u00a0 “That sounds messy.”<\/p>\n

She grinned and laughed.\u00a0 “Yeah …”<\/p>\n

\n

Note 1.\u00a0 I confess I did engage in an April Fool prank today, this one<\/a>, at the office.\u00a0 I have no idea if it caught anyone, or just caused a smile or two.\u00a0 I thought it was pretty funny just to read.<\/p>\n

Note 2.\u00a0 To make up for the above, I used April Fool’s Day as a safety topic in two conference calls I was on, suggesting that if a prank had any sort of physical component or might leave any mess, to give it some serious consideration as to whether it was really safe … and, if unsure, figure out something else to do.<\/p>\n

Note 3.\u00a0 I would suggest that if we could avoid making unsafe messes, hurting each other, or doing anything to each other that wouldn’t cause a mutual laugh afterward, the world would actually be kind of a cool place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night, Katherine asked across the dinner table, “Is it okay, since tomorrow is April Fool’s, if I do some pranks?” “Like what?” “I don’t know.” I pondered a moment.\u00a0 “It’s okay, if …”\u00a0 I started ticking off on my fingers.\u00a0 “… it doesn’t make a mess.\u00a0 And if it doesn’t hurt anyone.”\u00a0 There, I … Continue reading “April Fool”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68,21,23,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays","category-job-jollies","category-parenting","category-religion-me"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/harley.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45973,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/16\/in-a-world-where-food-court-pranks-occur.html","url_meta":{"origin":17012,"position":0},"title":"In a World Where Food Court Pranks Occur","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 16-Oct-14 7:18am","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, on the one hand it's stupid and annoying. 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