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To not tell my son I lied to him?

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DerekSprechenZeDick · 11/08/2016 09:15

And let him continue pretending to be poorly and see how far he goes?

I told him last night that he's back at school today. He has woken with a super bad fake cough, has complained about belly ache, his toe also hurts him.

I'm waiting to be told he has a broken leg Grin

How ill should I let him get before I let him know I was messing with him and he has weeks yet?

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ItShouldHaveBeenJess · 11/08/2016 11:15

I wonder how often the 'my child changed my rota' excuse has been used for a no-show at work.....because I'm definitely tempted!

HoneyDragon · 11/08/2016 11:15

Honey sure I will just run all future posts through you and you can then tell me what I actually mean, since you seem to know me so well

You forgot to preview you that one with me.

NeedACleverNN · 11/08/2016 11:15

When you get up in the morning, start pretending your really ill. Look at your rota and sigh loudly. You are so ill but you must go to work...see how long before he cracks

BadTasteFlump · 11/08/2016 11:17

Thank you Honey Smile

Ignore me I'm a grumpy witch.

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DerekSprechenZeDick · 11/08/2016 11:19

Trying to make me lose my job is too far. Pure evil Grin

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toadgirl · 11/08/2016 11:20

April Fool's Day is still okay, isn't it? Confused

IcedVanillaLatte · 11/08/2016 11:20

different strokes for different tribes

Very very true. I was very upset if I realised someone in my family had lied to me when I was a child, as I loved them and trusted them and didn't understand why they would find it funny to lie to me (especially as I was renowned for being particularly gullible). Another kid will find it hilariously funny. I don't understand their amusement at it, but I don't accuse them of lacking a sense of humour because they enjoy this kind of thing. People's senses of humour are different. It would be sadistic to play this joke on someone would be genuinely upset by it. Derek's son seems to share her sense of humour so it's okay. Safe, consensual and sane Grin

NeedACleverNN · 11/08/2016 11:20

Go and sit with him. When he asks why you are still around, tell him that since he wants you to lose your job, it's obvious he wants more time with you!

THirdEeye · 11/08/2016 11:20

I'd be inclined to actually putting on your uniform

AuntDotsie · 11/08/2016 11:20

D'you know, when I were a lass, my dad and I went to my uncle's for Christmas. I can't have been more than 8 or 9. I'd opened all my other little presents but was saving up the big one for last. It was huge. I'd never had anything as big as this. Was it a bike? Some amazing plastic toy? I didn't know but it was going to be good!

My dad and uncle and various other family members sat, watched and laughed as I unwrapped multiple layers of cardboard boxes cunningly disguising...a junior-sized badminton racquet. Because my dad wanted a badminton partner. I had no interest in badminton.

I've never, ever forgiven him for this. It was mean, he laughed at me, he didn't bring out a real big present. He tricked a kid, he made me feel stupid and greedy and disappointed. He's a mean old bastard. Relations are still strained (for many, many other reasons too).

But I think a jolly jape between family members like the OP's is fine! There's no malice, it's reciprocal, there's no power imbalance, I presume lovely hugs would be forthcoming if required. A prank is a bad thing if there's malice in it. I see no malice here.

PovertyPain · 11/08/2016 11:20

My middle DN was obsessed with Jammy dodgers and you wouldn't get a look in if you opened a packet. When I had the kids on hols I bought a joke jammy dodger and put it on the plate with other biscuits. Of course in comes dn, who spends a good few seconds determinedly chewing on the biscuit, before realising. Honestly, we were beginning to worry, it took that long for the penny to drop. He roared laughing, when he caught on. Now worrying if he was plying along and has deep emotional scars after biscuitgate. Confused locks away all knives and searches for emotional support for secretly distraught dn

HoneyDragon · 11/08/2016 11:23

Flump nor grumpy at all. My dads brother was one of those tossers. I had long hair as a kid and he used to put his foot on it if I was sat down so I'd fall over over when I tried to get up.

Then tell me I couldn't take a joke when I cried Hmm

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DerekSprechenZeDick · 11/08/2016 11:26

Aunt there's malice in his prank Grin

I've officially seen the rota. I sighed and said 'oh I thought I had tomorrow off, I was wrong!' And then sulked for a bit

He's cackling. He hasn't owned up yet so he's willing to play the long game

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MUjunkie · 11/08/2016 11:27

I do the xmas morning trick EVERY SINGLE YEAR!!! I hide his main present and come up with some excuse as to why I couldn't get it...give it half hour after he's opened everything else then let him accidentally find it!!! He's 15 this year and he's still gullible enough to fall for it every year!
The disappointed, gutted look on his face while trying not to look ungrateful! Yes I know it's mean...but then he's twice as happy and excited when he actually gets the one thing he really wanted! Grin

NeedACleverNN · 11/08/2016 11:27

My grandad was a classic joke pranker

When my mum was a little girl, he put a flake on top of the cupboard. He left it there for several days, and watched as my mum kept eyeing it up. One day he ate it and did the wrapper back up and placed it back where it was. One day she came in, and then asked if he was going to eat it. He said he wasn't and she could have it. Of course she ran over all excited, grabbed the wrapper and realised it was empty. Funnily enough she didn't hate her dad for it.

When my sister was a little girl, she used to run in the house and swig a couple of mouthfuls of his coke. So one day he put some whiskey in it and laughed when she spat it out. She never touched his coke again.

He also told her there was some chocolates in the conservatory. There was....whiskey liqueurs. She laughed and he laughed

It was a harmless joke and things we still talk about now. Grandad died in May and we look at these things with fondness

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DerekSprechenZeDick · 11/08/2016 11:29

My grandad got me with whisky chocolates when I was a kid. He left them out knowing I would sneak one.

Backfired on him though because I liked them and asked for another Grin

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NeedACleverNN · 11/08/2016 11:31
Grin

Yeah we wised up quickly and wouldn't eat or drink anything grandad offered us. He was a git but we loved him!

Spingroll16 · 11/08/2016 11:33

Some people seriously need to lighten up.

My parents did this to me once, told me on a Sunday that we were being called into school by the headmaster. They were taking us for a special day out instead.

I don't have trust issues with them?

LoisWilkersonsLastNerve · 11/08/2016 11:38

A lighthearted thread Shock

It can't be! Grin

99GBPChargeToUseMyPostsJournos · 11/08/2016 11:41

MUjunkie, I'd be scared to try that one with my son because chances are that the year he figured it out would be the year I really couldn't find the main gift!

MUjunkie · 11/08/2016 11:46

99GBP I have had occasion to panic thinking I can't afford that! Now what do I do? Lol. But I always manage to find a way, I'd die if I couldn't get it because every year I laugh at him and say "why do you fall for it every year?" He has no answer though, he just does lol

FairNotFair · 11/08/2016 11:46

we greet every injury with "Shall I bite it off?" and chase him around trying to gnaw off his body parts

When DS2 has a total overreaction to a tiny graze or scrape, we go through the following pantomime:
"Shall I fetch the big knife?"
"Noooo!"
"The big scissors?" Shock
"Noooo!"
"Not... ... the big axe???" Shock Shock Shock

I will stop immediately, lest he be traumatised.

HoneyDragon · 11/08/2016 11:49

We have the special super duper make it better saw in the school cupboard. No ones needed it yet though.

madein1995 · 11/08/2016 11:50

I think this has gone way over the top and the PO have managed to turn another lighthearted thread into a bunfight ... I wouldn't personally do this to my child, or have thought it funny myself as a child - but different senses of humour and all that, I'm not going to get up about another parent doing this Smile

My parents often used to fi/hide things from me - such as only announcing we were going on holiday the week before we went (otherwise I'd have kept on for bloody ages) and pretend they =hadn't got that christmas present I really really wanted - then after all the wrapping was put out in the recycling, give me that christmas present. We were on holiday once and I used to love going to the clubhouse, and kept pestering them, my mum said it was shut that night (probably wanted a night in front of the telly), at 2 I said no it wasn't because the lights were on, so that didn't work. I can't say the little fibs ever made me really distrust them, nor did father christmas or the tooth fiary.

MUjunkie · 11/08/2016 11:50

fairnotfair we do similar with my nephew! He doesn't like the noise of my dps electric saw so when he's playing up he gets "right, uncles getting his saw out"

Ok, maybe that's not so similar! Maybe a bit too harsh Hmm he soon sits down n behaves though! Haha