I've just had the nastiest April fool whatsoever

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Friend is on here but I'm sure she can cope with me being 'public'. And hello, my darling!

But phone went off middle of the night telling me childhood friend had died. Turns out this is nonsense. Isn't that a really cruel thing to do to someone? I was throwing up. I'm not sure what I'd gain from posting here just a bit of feather soothing and 'relax'. I don't want anyone to say they deserve a kicking I just think that was a horrible thing to do

I threw up when my XH announced out of the blue that he didn't love me any more... it is a perfectly normal reaction to shock news.

OP, your friend is sick, that "joke" is in no way funny and you need new friends.

I hope that they have apologised for being such a twat.

I generally hate pranks anyway, they are based on making someone feel something negative and even when they find out its not true they still went through whatever it was
But that is beyond shiity OP, really fucking awful thing to do to anyone

That’s awful. Who would make something like that up and expect sometime to find it funny? And in the middle of the night?

I remember one my sister did. I was in my first year at uni, so 18 years old, 500 miles from home so hadn’t seen my horse for a while - he was on loan to a friend of my mother. My sister phone me on 1st April to tell me he was dead. WTF?!

What a piece of shit this so called friend is!
That’s not something anyone with any decency would even consider doing let alone actually do.
They’d be a former friend of mine I’m afraid for that stunt as it’s unforgivable

Good grief

How awful. Not funny

Agreed, Who finds these things in any way funny? Why is watching someone else be tricked amusing? Why is someone falling on a banana skin funny?

That's not funny at all. The person who did this is not your friend.

Holy shit that's revolting behaviour, that's not an April fool it's plain nasty

I threw up when my son died. What's your issue with it?

For me April fools is the news reporting about a spaghetti tree, or that chocolate milk comes from brown cows as it is obvious it is just something silly. Anything that involves emotion is not a prank, it is cruel. I don’t get wanting to upset someone for laughs. I also don’t get the funny videos of people falling down a manhole or whatever.

Oh how dreadful - you poor thing

Oh and I threw up when grandad died and I wasn’t the only one in the house doing that - it’s quite normal

I think I stay at least twice a day people are Fckn nuts. At what point do you think that’s funny?

This is absolutely vile. Not a joke at all.

My guess would be this ‘friend’ has never lost a loved one, and lives a very sad life.

That's not a friend or a joke!

I think it depends on the joke, @JudithWithABigKnife. When I was at Sixth form, one of my classmates closed the school gates and put a For Sale sign outside the college on April Fool's day. Everyone thought that was funny, and no-one was upset by it. I've seen pranks in the media - like the BBC's Spaghetti harvest/trees story - that were just funny and harmless.

That's not April Fool material sorry. Your friend is a tool.

??? Who the fuck does that?

As someone who has lost a close friend this week - that’s deplorable.
please take care you have experienced a shock and a trauma and your body will be processing that.

This is an April Fool I think.

That is just utterly deplorable, so nasty

That’s just completely unacceptable. My best friend actually did die out of the blue last year, it was horrendous it’s really not something to joke about

Deliberately cruel.
wrecks your night.
wtaf

Can there be an overreaction to death?

Why do you think this, @JenniferandJuniper?

Sadly I think it is perfectly plausible that someone would joke about a sudden death, as an April Fool's joke - some people are just that cruel and insensitive.