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……………………………April Fools

If by the time you have read this blog and someone has not played a high school style joke on you……………well, consider yourself lucky. Today is, of course, April Fool’s Day, which provides a get-out-of-jail-free card for the kind of behavior that would normally result in a minor act of violence. The fact that I am suffering from a leviathan-sized bout of jet lag meant my wits were not with me this morning when my friend Alan called me at 7:10 am to tell me that his car wouldn’t start and would I rush over to his house as he needed to go to the hospital for his check up.

So without thinking and without Heidi even thinking it was the day of fools I jumped out of bed, got dressed and through jet-lagged eyes drove the 11 miles to Alan’s house. I was there by 7:40 am…………..my friend needed me and I was there for him………….well I was there but he bloody well wasn’t………..but there was a hand written note taped to the front door that simply said “April Fool”………………..the complete and utter bastard.

And so it is that I sit here at 8:30 am, still having been unable to get Alan to answer his phone. If he has any sense (which he doesn’t) he will have entered the witness protection program by now and changed his name to Betty……………revenge will be mine.

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