The Best April Fools Joke

This April Fools Day, the best joke was not played by any member of the family. My kids tried their best with the, "Oh no, there is a fly on your head," several times. Allen put a rubber band over the kitchen sprayer so the unsuspecting person would be sprayed. The kids know I hate April Fools Day. I am a very trusting person, and I hate people trying to deceive me, even if it is in fun. I think celebrating a day when you do your best to trick people is a bad idea through and through. I am kind of the ultimate party pooper! We should have a day where everyone has to tell the truth! Could you imagine what kinds of chaos that would bring? Anyway, I am getting off the subject. I actually had a joke played on me today that I enjoyed. It was a simple thing, but it made me laugh. Our best joke of the day was played by our whiteboard marker. We use our markers everyday. Most of our schooling is done with them. I love opening new markers. I love it when I can give up struggling with my pathetic old marker, and have the kids see what I am writing from halfway across the house. I love getting new Markers!! About a week ago, I decided to give up on sad little marker I had been trying to eek the last little bit of life out of, and open a new marker. I never throw away the old markers until they are absolutely dead. The kids are not allowed to use the new markers unless I am right there to keep an eye on them. They leave the lid off while they are "thinking" (dawdling) and they dry out too fast. We have a pencil box that we keep all of our markers in. For the past week, I have been using this new marker, and I was really frustrated. The first day I started using it, I noticed it was really weak. I was upset that we got a bum marker. Finally today, it died completely. I was not happy. I threw it away, and got out a new marker. It was beautiful. Everything a marker should be. Halfway through Allen's lesson, I noticed that there were two beautiful new markers on the table. I was very confused for a while, then I realized what had happened. The new marker I had opened last week had hidden itself in the bottom of our marker pencil box. We use two different sizes of Markers, and I didn't think we had any skinny black markers left. When I found a skinny black marker, I just assumed it was the new one, when in fact I had been using the old marker all week long. I don't have a clue how that marker stayed hidden from me all week long, but it did. I laughed really hard, and when I told the kids about the markers "April Fools" joke, they enjoyed it as much as I did. Long explanation for a simple story, but it made my day.