After I came out from the bathroom during my
family's weekend retreat, my family noticed that had changed into comfortable red fleece bug-eyed penguins pajamas with matching velvet penguin flipflops.
Anyu looked at me up and down and made the same face she always makes when she's disappointed. “Stephie...had yer boyfriend seen dose pee-zamas?”
“Yes, he’s seen them, he thinks they’re cute.”
She just shook her head.
“Stephie, with pee-zamas like dat, you’re never gonna get laid.”
No one ever calls my home phone number except for telemarketers and my mother. After listening to six "very urgent messages about your car's warranty," I finally heard a familiar voice:
Hallo, Stephanie....dis is your modder. Don't forget, today is April Fooled, so be careful nobody puts poison in your food.Wow. Next March 31st, I'll make sure to sleep with a gun in case someone tries to sneak into my kitchen and put poison in my cereal or worse... my GOULASH!
Did you play an April Fools' joke today? What was the worst April Fools' joke played on you? Or were YOU the one that played it?
Photo by Georgios M. W.
(some of you might already know this story from The Quiz, but a few people asked me to elaborate so here goes:)
My family waits until the last minute for everything. My cousin Liz was about eight months pregnant before the planning and preparation for her baby shower even began. By the time we reserved the room at the church, invited everyone we knew, researched different type of party games, and painstakingly crafted baby-themed gift baskets and decorations, poor Liz was already busting at the seams.
Despite the event’s tardiness, the shower went extremely well. The room looked fantastically festive, the food was delicious, and a ton of people showed up, even Nagymama!
Of course, as soon as Nagymama stepped through the door, she pushed everyone to the side, and hustled towards Liz with a beautifully gold wrapped box with a big red bow on it. She immediately stuffed the present in Liz’s hand, kissed her on the cheek, and yelled, “Hoppy Burst-day!”
Everyone laughed and assumed that Nagymama was joking, until she walked over to us and loudly muttered in Hungarian, “Boy,...
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Anyu and I were talking one day after finding out that a friend from church lost her daughter in a tragic train accident.
My mother was discussing some of the funeral details, and then she looked right at me and said, "You know, it would be just terrible to lose a daughter like
dat. But I mean, it would be even
vorse to lose a sister. I mean, if I had to choose..."
"
Anyu, don't even think about finishing that sentence."
"Vhat? I’m just saying…I’ve had my sister my whole life! I've only had YOU for like tventy-sometink years!”
I'll have to remember not to call my mom the next time I am dangling precariously off a cliff.
Sheesh.
Photo by Steve Woods
After I came out from the bathroom during my family's weekend retreat, my family noticed that had changed into comfortable red fleece bug-eyed penguins pajamas with matching velvet penguin flipflops.
