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What is April fool’s day? This is a day set aside for practical jokes and pranks on others, it is an annual practice worldwide which happens on the 1st of April yearly. Jokers and pranksters reveal their actions by shouting April Fool after the recipient of their prank reacts to their pranks or jokes. These pranksters sometimes go too far which makes a lot of individuals to be against this tradition.Hello and welcome to hivereachout community weekly prompt 41 “April Fool”. My name is @rishagamo, I hope you find my article enlightening. Thank you.
While growing up, I have memories of children in the same area where I live who would go to buy items on credit from retail persons and shop owners, saying they were sent by some well-known elderly person in the community. After they were given such items, the children would run away shouting April fool to the retailer or the person who was the victim of their practical joke.
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I have always been against such practices and never have I been a partaker or a victim of this prank, but I have heard of numerous accounts in regards to this prank. In the part of the country, I live and grew up in, people who engage in this act engaged in the practice majorly for the gain of it but not the fun of it, since it is a practice, everyone was familiar with, most people participating in such jokes go about looking for people to cheat of something in the name of April fool. I will be sharing a close experience of the April Fool Act.
One day, we were all seated at our usual spot in school, when a friend of ours received a call from his sibling saying he needed to come home immediately and that his attention was urgently needed, saying something very serious had happened at home. My friend is a very emotional person and little things usually scare him deeply, for some seconds he couldn't breathe well, his breath was seizing slowly and before we knew it our guy had fainted, we were all trying to get the information about the problem clearly because we didn't get the clear message he had received, we had to revive him with cold water.
After he had settled, he explained to us the message he got. Before now, he was always telling us about how sick his mother was, and he was scared that he might receive a call from home saying she had passed away. We needed to calm him down with words and told him he could not travel immediately and should wait till the next day. He agreed with our suggestion and was preparing to travel the next morning. Surprisingly to us, a few minutes later, he got another call saying it was only an April fool call. We were all relieved but at the same time angry with his brother for such an expensive joke, i needed to call his brother the next day to let him understand the situation he had put us through.
The prank people pull on this day has caused serious damage to the receiver of the prank; it has led to early death, accidents that could have been prevented and other serious issues. This practice should be abolished immediately and a law should be introduced against it.
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Seriously this practice has done more harm than good. Imagine that your friend didn't survive the shock, he would have been long forgotten all because of some sort of careless jokes. Thanks for sharing man
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