April Fool Joke - how would you feel?

[Kittymouse]

My 22 year old nephew played an April Fools joke on me that I am still trying to get over.
I am paying him to do some odd jobs so he can save to travel. He was painting the front fence with my 11 year old son whilst I was working in the house. I didn't notice that they both had disappeared to the local shop to buy supplies for the joke.
The first thing I know is my nephew came bursting through the door yelling at me to ring an ambulance - that my son had come off his skateboard and there was so much blood. I picked up the phone and dialled 999 as I ran outside onto the road.
what I saw there was my worst nightmare. my son was lying motionless with an enormous pool of blood around his head. My heart stopped. I thought that much blood could pretty much only mean one thing. The ambulance man was asking for the address. I knelt down on the road and only then realised that the blood was about 3 bottles of tomato ketchup. ...
When I stopped feeling angry the shock kicked in and I am struggling to get the image out of my head. My son said that he had second thoughts but didn't want to back out and spoil the fun for my nephew. I just wondered how you other mums would have reacted and then I'll have to get over it for the sake of family relationships...

How horrible

DH "joked" that he had forgotten DS2 (who was 6 days old at the time) and left him in the car park of the GP.

It's a long story involving 2 car seats, car seat bases in the car, and me being thoroughly exhausted with a tiny baby and a 17 month old but basically I fell for it completely and in that moment, my baby was gone.

I honestly feel like I aged about 10 years in the space of three seconds. The panic was intense. I cried for hours afterwards.

Gosh.. You poor thing. Yes I feel exactly the same. I aged decades in those seconds.
It's also confusing when someone you love does something so incredibly badly judged😟

I loathe April Fool's jokes but I wouldn't let it traumatise me. I'd probably promise to disinherit them both if they ever pulled a stunt like that again.

Good point😊

What a complete and utter twat.

What has your sibling said about it? I know he's an adult but other family members should be aware of the reason you probably won't want much contact with him in future.

I haven't spoken to my bro. I wasn't planning to tell them as I felt I should deal with it myself. But my nephew had obviously told them. My sister in law called me today and asked if I'd got over it.. And laughed. That really wound me up... I told her that I was incandescent with rage and couldn't even bring myself to look at him any more. I ended up somehow feeling that I was seen to be the one being childish by not moving on. I think I made the point that it was behaviour you might expect, (dread), from a 14 year old not a 22 year old. That probably hit home. Anyway now I think I must move on. But it's good to know that I'm not alone in being shocked and horrified rather than amused by this particular April Fool..