And then in college, I got my revenge a bit. Playing on her love of a quick score in financial winnings (Read: Gambling), I shared that after a trip to the casino I scored 5,000 quarters playing a slot machine, $1,250 in total. She bought in, I had her, and that was probably the last time either one of us got the other on April Fool's. It had been a battle, each was prepared for the other. Serious stories, emotional, scary, whatever, neither bought what the other was peddling. Until this year.
Of course, my mother wants me to live closer to home. This is known. So, after running a test on a co-worker this morning with my story (and convincing her), I was ready for mom. The rouse was this: I got contacted the other day by my old bank in KC (Commerce Bank) from my mentor during my internship there. He had climbed the ladder, was a pretty high up executive, and was looking me up for a job and it just so happened that it was in Learning, which I'm a part of with my company. So he calls, we have a phone interview set up for Tuesday and if all goes well, he flies me out to KC for an in-person interview for the job which would be a sizable bump in pay/responsibilities from my role today.
OF COURSE my mother was excited. And I felt bad about it at first. When we got on the phone, her tone was just casual, and then it picks up and she gets all excited. But then I remember all those years where she got me. And I was loving it. So I played along for a bit more, then told her the truth. She was totally guilty of being fooled. Not mad, just like "dang, my son got me again." I reminded her about keeping her head in the game, but now she's all jazzed to get my middle sister when she came home from school. We schemed a bit how to do so and hopefully my mother paid it forward.
It's why I LOVE April Fool's day.
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I neveer liked April Fool's. I guess I am just not witty enough for the day!
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