The day of the fools is almost upon us; I bet you’ve had an inkling of some practical joke you’d thought about playing on your friends, or planned a couple of props you were going to dunk on that unsuspecting House member (oops!)…
But I, unashamed to declare my habit, was OCD enough to accidentally participate in a surreptitious full dress rehearsal that (thankfully) went unnoticed.
Laugh all you want, but we’ll see who’s laughing on 1st April.
In fact, it wasn’t meant to be a joke, and it sure wasn’t funny that I’d been coerced (by dystopicutopia nonetheless; here’s a shoutout to my fellow blogger *wink*) into joining her class for a Chemistry tutorial on Atomic Structure during MY double period break.
And so the joke began, as I met with a plethora of fortunate coincidences that saved my skin from going, ‘oh, happy early April fools’!’ to the teacher:
-the usual Chemistry teacher was absent, and a relief teacher (as ignorant of my out-of-place presence as ever) glossed me over like a regular apple in a basket
-someone in the class was absent, so when the pair work began, I managed not to be an invisible third wheel
-I knew a bunch of the people in that class, and they bothered enough (or so little, depending on how you looked at it) not to blow my cover
I’d contemplated my escape route if I’d been found out: I’d pretend to answer a phone call (presumably from a concerned classmate), then jump up and go (in this totally airhead voice), ‘ohmigosh, like what am I doing here? I’ve been in the wrong lesson this whole time?!’ and stomp out:) Thankfully, it didn’t come to that…
Isn’t that a wonderful dress rehearsal for an Oscar-winning performance during an April Fools’?! I shall so do that again this Thurs, only my timetable doesn’t fit, so it doesn’t matter that I’m telling you all of this on the school blog.
And if there’re any copycat pranks, I’d be flattered. 