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Tell me your funniest April fool?

70 replies

SapphosRock · 31/03/2023 19:35

I remember my older teenage brother having a long lie in the morning we were due to go on holiday. My parents drove the car with all our luggage around the corner, we moved all the clocks forward by 4 hours and then hid.

His face when he woke up and thought we'd left him behind Grin

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StevenB1 · 31/03/2023 19:59

Simple one for me was when one of my work colleagues at the time had bought another one a fake scratch card 🙃 that was it for him, early retirement, buying everyone something nice, he walked out and went home...he wasn't as happy after about an hour 😄

VeniVidiWeeWee · 31/03/2023 20:39

StevenB1 · 31/03/2023 19:59

Simple one for me was when one of my work colleagues at the time had bought another one a fake scratch card 🙃 that was it for him, early retirement, buying everyone something nice, he walked out and went home...he wasn't as happy after about an hour 😄

Really funny.

Did physical violence ensue?

glasshole · 31/03/2023 20:47

Years ago I stayed at a friends house as a teenager and somebody wrapped the toilet in cling film. Then put the seat down. Her older brother was the first to go the loo and the screams of horror were shocking. The mess was terrible according to the mum. But none of her other 3 siblings would own up to it.

shewhomustbeEbayed · 31/03/2023 20:59

One year when my 3 sisters and I were young my mum sewed up the legs on our pants, we were half awake and trying to get ready for school and couldn’t work out what was wrong 😂

Titsywoo · 31/03/2023 21:03

DH and the kids rigged up a cupboard with a box of cornflakes inside that was attached so that the packet would empty out when the door was opened. They were looking forward to seeing me get pranked in the morning. Unfortuantely for them I went out on the piss the night before and when me and my friend got home we had the munchies. They did all hear us shout then start laughing as we got covered in cereal at midnight!

BotterMon · 31/03/2023 21:03

Many years ago before the UK knew about the world as only very few people travelled, a newspaper published a photo and a story about spaghetti trees where all the spaghetti is grown in Italy. I think it was late 1950's.

Everyone fell for it. People were talking about for ages in a "Well I never knew that" way. I know today it sounds very tame but at the time it was brilliant.

UWhatNow · 31/03/2023 21:06

The news ones are mildly amusing but finding humour in humiliating other people I will never understand.

PussBilledDuckyPlait · 31/03/2023 21:09

that was it for him, early retirement, buying everyone something nice

It could have been worse - he might have done the whole 'Take your job and shove it, Jenny I've always hated you and Brian you smell of farts' thing.

Mostar · 31/03/2023 21:16

I liked the one about Aberdeenshire Council hiring a luxury cruise ship to deport nuisance seagulls to some windswept island way out in the North Atlantic.

Tellmethespoiler · 31/03/2023 21:19

StevenB1 · 31/03/2023 19:59

Simple one for me was when one of my work colleagues at the time had bought another one a fake scratch card 🙃 that was it for him, early retirement, buying everyone something nice, he walked out and went home...he wasn't as happy after about an hour 😄

Isn’t that a bit mean?

SeaDee · 31/03/2023 21:23

UWhatNow · 31/03/2023 21:06

The news ones are mildly amusing but finding humour in humiliating other people I will never understand.

Snap

dun1urkin · 31/03/2023 21:23

My favourite one to do (back in the days of working in an office) was to put a little post it note saying ‘April fool’ on the underside of all my colleagues’ optical mice. Watching them all shuffling their mice back and forth, and eventually, inevitably picking them up and looking underneath was a treat Grin

Tr1skel1on · 31/03/2023 21:27

My sister and I, aged approximately 9 and 10, told my dad we'd rode our bikes up the (extremely narrow) drive between ours and the neighbours cars, and our handlebars had scratched both! I've to this day never seen my Dad move so quickly 😂 I'm not far off 50

WitchDancer · 31/03/2023 21:28

At work the two owners snuck in and turned everyone's computer screen display upside down😂

Cigarettesaftersex1 · 31/03/2023 21:39

StevenB1 · 31/03/2023 19:59

Simple one for me was when one of my work colleagues at the time had bought another one a fake scratch card 🙃 that was it for him, early retirement, buying everyone something nice, he walked out and went home...he wasn't as happy after about an hour 😄

Awful, I wouldn't find this in the least bit funny, it's just cruel

delilabell · 31/03/2023 21:58

I told my chikdren there was the biggest b ive ever seem in the bathroom. When they rushed through it was a letter b. Laugh a minute I am. 😆

BettyBoopy · 31/03/2023 22:03

Put a leek (vegetable) in the shower or the toilet. Shouted to my husband 'quick there's a leak in the shower/toilet' he came running then boom!

NotCopingWell1 · 31/03/2023 22:03

I quite enjoy swapping a couple of keys on someone's keyboard. Most people don't look at the keys when they type and nor could they tell you exactly where a key should be they just no the general area. So you want to swap to next to each other round on a couple of rows.

Best in the office though! WfH will have limited this one.

thispostisaboutyou · 31/03/2023 22:10

A leek (vegetable) in the sink is usually funny and harmless

prettybluebell · 31/03/2023 22:21

StevenB1 · 31/03/2023 19:59

Simple one for me was when one of my work colleagues at the time had bought another one a fake scratch card 🙃 that was it for him, early retirement, buying everyone something nice, he walked out and went home...he wasn't as happy after about an hour 😄

Not funny at all. I like a good prank but this one is just mean.

user1471453601 · 31/03/2023 22:25

Years ago waiting for the tram to get to work. It was cold, It was raining and blowing a gale.
Tram turns up, we commuters pile on. We get to a point where trams usually wait for a few seconds (like a crossroad).

announcement from driver "this tram has to return to base, it is no longer operative.". So, in the rain and wind, we have to disembark?

announcement contintues. " if you wish to complain about this this, please contact our customer service manager , Mr King. That's Mr. Joe King".

and on we continued to our chosen destination. I've never seen a group of commuters laugh so much - once we got it.

PoseyFlump · 31/03/2023 22:28

SapphosRock · 31/03/2023 19:35

I remember my older teenage brother having a long lie in the morning we were due to go on holiday. My parents drove the car with all our luggage around the corner, we moved all the clocks forward by 4 hours and then hid.

His face when he woke up and thought we'd left him behind Grin

That's hilarious 😂

TwinsAndTiramisu · 31/03/2023 22:34

When I was expecting DTwins (boy/girl) my cousin announced that I had confided in him, the girls name, Denise. My mother, nan, aunts were all in discussion "I never thought she'd pick that... That wasn't on the shortlist was it? Etc"

A few hours later, he then told them he knew the boy's name too. De Nephew.

PoseyFlump · 31/03/2023 22:48

Oh I love these cheesy ones 😂