Ok, on April 1st something happened that made me wonder why I ever gave up birth control pills, namely, two of my sons . I was at the Nichol house spackling away on the never ending walls of that 2 story art project. My cell phone rings just as I was taking a little coffee break. It was Barnaby on the line.
"Hey Mom" he says.
"Hey Barnaby, what's going on?" I ask.
"Not much, what's happening with you?" he asks.
"Oh, just spackling, trying to get these walls in shape" I reply.
"I was just thinking about you" I added.
"Bout anything in particular?" he asks.
"No, just wondering if anything has been happening with you" I said.
"Hmmm, well Mom, I was just calling to let you know that Saco Cabinets will be delivering a truckload of cabinets at your store today" he said.
"Oh really, what time?" I asked.
"Probably around 1 or 2 oclock" he said.
I paused to think how I would work around this disruption in my work progress.
"OK, no problem" I said.
"Mom, there's some money owed on the cabinets, so you'll need to collect it when the guy shows up to pick up the cabinets. He owes $849.32. He's gonna bring cash so make sure you get the right amount" he urged.
I was thinking at this point that maybe I should be writing this down.
"OK, that's no problem" I said in a kinda half hearted way.
And it felt like the conversation was over and this is when Barnaby said
"Let me give you his name. His name is Mr Poo Poo Pants. That's Poo Poo Pants!" he chortled.
In the background I could hear him and his brother Harrison roaring with laughter.
"April fools" he added.
I confess, when he first said Poo Poo Pants, I was actually thinking that the name sounded French. And when I realized that this was all just a big April fools ruse, I thought to myself that Barnaby had pulled this same kind of deal on me last April fools. Man, I am so gullible.
And I would have written all of this in my blog on April 1st but I stayed off my computer to avoid the well hyped Conficker computer virus. When I opened my computer this morning it still worked without any problem but who knows my computer may have been infiltrated and is now a secret compubot for some sinister poo poo pants a world away.
1 comment:
haha! I love it, please give my applause to the boys, that was hilarious and I'm sure my mom would fall for something like that. I live to torment her. At work we played a joke on my coworkers..we got a little extra on our checks thanks to President Obama so I told them it was an accounting error and we had to give it back plus interest. No one believed me so I called our Director and he's a cool guy so he played along. It felt so good, so very good to be a naughty minx.
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