I'm no April fool

I've never been a fan of silly hijinks and pranks. People call me a spoilsport, a wet blanket, killjoy, party pooper and even Debby downer. I don't really care because what it all comes down to is I hate being tricked. Tricking somebody is akin to lying and I loathe liars.

Today was April 1st and I knew I needed to take everything with a grain of salt. I dodged my manager texting to say we all could take the day off, I ignored a coworker who tried to convince me we were getting bonus checks, I avoided my cubicle neighbor when she told me she was pregnant. It's not funny to lie about things that affect people, why don't they get that?

Even my ex husband got his new wife and our kids to play along. First it was Sarah had failed her grade and needed to repeat it, then Jason had gotten detention for writing on the bathroom walls. My ex Chris and his wife Angelica told me they wanted to move to Canada and take the kids. The lengths to which they were willing to go just disgusted me. I'm sitting here in my room just seething about their latest attempt to fool me. They are trying to convince me somebody killed my son in "detention". They went so far as to make it look like there was an intruder in the school that had some grudge with the teacher holding detention. Like anybody would believe that!

They started with phone calls, crying and screaming there was an active shooter at Jason's school. I hung up and preened at not letting myself get worked up over their nasty little jokes. Then Sarah called me crying and telling me Jason texted her that he was hiding in the school. SURE HONEY. I told her she was very funny and hung up on her too. They even got the school in on it, surrounding the building with "concerned parents" and police. They're really going all out to trick me this year. When the police officer showed up at my house about an hour ago I told him to come back tomorrow since this was SO SERIOUS. He looked at me so funny, but he walked away.

I'm not falling for any of their nonsense or tomfoolery this year. When all is said and done, they'll see I'm in the right. Come tomorrow they'll drop all these silly shenanigans and we can go back to being a normal society that doesn't make light of serious things. After all, I'm no April fool.