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Tomorrow is April Fools’ Day.

I never really liked the day.

I usually believe everything anyone tells me. I’m gullible. I’m an easy target.

Sure, I’ve done the fake nose bleed and the telling my parents I was pregnant when I was 15. That got a good laugh from me. A more mortified look from my parents.

Dallas Post reporter, Rebecca Bria, and I were talking today about birthdays. Today is my father and her sister’s birthday (Happy Birthday Dad and Alyssa!)

And then we got to talking about an April Fools’ birthday, since Rebecca said her mother prayed Alyssa wasn’t born on April 1.

My cousin, Jean, was telling me the other day that her brother, Johnny, was born on April 1.

When their mother was in the delivery room, their grandmother told their father twins were on the way (instead of just Johnny).

“My father couldn’t believe it,” Jean said. “It was so funny, I’ll never forget it.”

Reporter Rory Sweeney once told his mother on April Fools’ he wrecked her car and was in the hospital. Rory says he let the gag go on for a short time, but then told his mother it was just a joke.

Her response?

“Complete and unmitigated anger,” Rory says. And rightfully so, I say.

Intern, Gino Troiani, said he told his mother one April 1 that while working in a restaurant he fell in a deep fryer. She freaked out, Gino says.

Our poor mothers.

A quick census of the newsroom came back with no other stories, except the time when reporter Ed Lewis once told me a high-profile homicide suspect pleaded guilty and I missed it. That was a lie. And it wasn’t April Fools’ Day. I’m gullible.

Our online department is reporting that a computer bug is going to strike tomorrow, jamming up our workday with spam and computer viruses. And it’s “no joke” they say.

The worm is called “Conficker.” Click here to read more about it.

http://www.timesleader.com/scrantonedition/news/No_joke__Computer_worm_to_hit_April_1_03-31-2009.html

Don’t try to dupe me tomorrow. I’ll be on alert.

This means you, Ed Lewis.

-sd

About the Author

Sheena has been working at the TL since 2005 and graduated from Luzerne County Community College with an associates degree in journalism and King's College with a bachelors degree in mass communications. Sheena started here as an intern, and has done everything from obits to archiving and reporting, and now covers the Luzerne County Courthouse for the TL.

Sheena also writes a regular blog for timesleader.com. Click here to check it out.

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