fool 2 April 2008
It has never really occured to me to go in for April’s Fool tricks. I think one of the reasons is that I am truly, awfully, utterly gullible. And the bigger the lie I am told, the more likely I am to believe it. It doesn’t occur to me that anyone would lie about HUGE things. Richard is forever ‘getting’ me – usually small things, actually, like he’ll pretend to have forgotten something that I wanted him to do and I get into a complete lather and then’ tadah!’ it’s revealed that he did it…though not always…so I can NEVER be sure. Maddening, though it’s as much me as him as I really should know better by now.
Yesterday, on April 1st, one of my friends on Facebook put up that he was sorry to hear of the passing of Mary Robinson and, eejit that I am, I looked all over for news before checking back and he was mourning someone else famous…who wasn’t dead. It was brilliant in a way because, of course, it was so believable, I guess, and that’s where good ones succeed and bad ones fail.
Today, the Irish Taoiseach Berite Ahern resigned and everyone is sending messages out wondering if TODAY is April Fools..no, he’s gone alright.
