Rant #3,322: Fool (If You Think It's Over)

Today is April Fools' Day!

It is the day we are "allowed" to pull little, harmless pranks on our friends and family.

I remember that as a little kid, I would try to convince people that it was the next day rather than the day it was.

In other words, if I was going that route today, I would try to convince you that it was Tuesday rather than Monday, the day it really is.

Yes, I must have been a barrel of laughs way back when!

Today, I will look at my left leg and shout "April Fools!"

But I will quickly realize that my injury isn't a joke, and that I really am injured.

Oh, the pain!

But not only isn't it the same as an adult on April Fools' Day, it is simply a day that is as much a day of reality as any other day is.

In my neck of the woods, it is rent day ... so the reality of the day for myself and my family is that we have to cough up our rent check today.

But that's the way it's been forever, so it is nothing new.

I remember several years ago, I had fun with this blog by declaring, after doing the blog for several years, that I was giving it up lock, stock and barrel, as they say.

Some people believed me, but most people didn't, but it was fun trying to convince my readers that I was done.

And, of course, a few thousand posts later, I am still not done with this blog, and I won't be for the foreseeable future.

And that is no April Fools' Day joke!

I remember that many years ago, the then powerhouse radio station WNEW-FM pulled one of the great April Fools' Day jokes of all time.

The radio station's sports reporter told the radio audience--in between the spinning of records from the likes of the Grateful Dead and Led Zeppelin--that the Steinbrenner family had sold the New York Yankees to--

Donald Trump!

Yes, the real estate magnate that was simply known as "The Donald" back then had purchased the Yankees, or so we were told.

It ended up being a load of April Fools' Day nonsense, but it had a lot of people going, including some news services, and yes, me too.

Back then, maybe it was plausible that the future president could actually purchase the Yankees ... but in the present time, with all of the judgments against him, Trump probably would come up a few dollars short.

But this is the fun of April Fools' Day, a day we can kid around and generally not be taken to task for it.

So if I say that the world is a good and safe place now, I could give you a little wink, and blurt out--

"April Fools!"

But given our current state of affairs, I don't think we would get much of a laugh out of it.