the april's fool day joke that kept on giving

oh lord... how do i even begin this? haha. i hope the comedy translates on screen as well as it did in person. so here it goes.

river street. savannah. late afternoon. there is a street festival going on and i have had, oh, about six or seven beers. those tall ones. hah. around me were four girlfriends.

we were enjoying cloggers, break-dancers, african dancers and a magician. it was at some point that someone either asked the date or mentioned that it was april first. aha. prank. hmmm.

so, of course, i thought of the perfect thing to do. before i hit two on my speed dial, i had it all planned out. and, boy, did it work! haha.

wendell is number two and after attempting twice, he answered. in a very scared, quiet voice i told him i was in the back of a police car in savannah. he interrupted me with 'what' but i kept talking.

supposedly, erin, one of the girls, and i were dancing when another girl came up and tried to dance but instead got into a tussle with erin. they began to fight and i attempted to seperate them. a short time later, a guy came up and hit me from the side.

the cops were there and handcuffed me before knocking me upside the car and telling me to 'shut the fuck up' before throwing me in the back. to make it sound good, i told wendell my eye was bleeding and they wouldn't even attend to the injury. blood was all over my shirt.

wendell... haha. wendell was going off. 'oh, no,' he said. 'you get his name. he cannot do that.'

he kept on... thinking of friends, etc. who might could come to my immediate rescue before he could arrange otherwise.

at one point, i pretended the cop was walking by and that i had to hide the phone. when i came back, i told him he passed without saying anything. they were putting the other guy in the squad car ahead of me.

shortly, another of the girls come into the story. she was to be the cop. i had to hang up the phone, she told me. i resisted. not yet, i yelled with all types of expletives and anger in my voice, i said. it was my attorney i was talking to and i would not hang up.

haha.

eventually, though, i did. haha. and then i called wendell back. honestly, can't remember what i said at this point but eventually had to let the cat out of the bag. the laughter was choking me. i had to.

haha. he was pissed. i think he even called me a bad name.

but... that wasn't the end of it. i had called leslee and jennifer, neither of which answered their phones. i left leslee, she said, ten messages.

so... leslee couldn't get in touch with me so she called wendell. wendell took the story further. haha. i was in jail, he told he her. she freaked. and then they began to discuss how i get mouthy when i'm drunk. totally believable, which is why i put that act in the whole scheme.

she was about to hang up and call her parents when wendell couldn't let it go any further and sprang the prank on her. haha.

still, that's not the end.

she called jennifer and told her that she was in jail for d.u.i. in pelham. at some point, she also had hit a guy. haha. totally believable, too. jennifer fell for it and was going to empty her bank account to pay her bail so that she could avoid the parents.

leslee told her about the joke but not before telling her about mine. so... jennifer called me saying she had $2,500 to wire but needed to know where and how. i thought she was serious so i almost freaked. she hadn't lost any money but, wow.

april fool's, she said. leslee had filled her in.

what goes around, comes around, i guess. it was very fun.

also, craig was subjected to the same thing and was just as shocked and equally as pissed. haha.

happy april fool's day.