April's Fool's Joke

Every April 1st I would call Dad and we would laugh about the joke he played on me one WARM morning. I think it was his best ever, and I really got taken in by it.

I woke up to someone knocking on my bedroom window early in the morning, when it was just starting to get light enough to see. I heard Dad whisper/calling my name. I jumped to the window to see what was going on. He was right outside the window and backed up to talk to me. I could see he was kind of jumping around and acted like he was in a hurry. He said he was in a hurry, an emergency meeting at the district office. (He was still working there at the time.) Now, I don't remember if the state superintendent of schools had resigned, or if that was the time the superintendent was killed in a car accident, but at the time, there was no state superintendent and everyone was wondering who would be appointed to the position. Dad said he was called to this emergency meeting at the district office because our superintendent, Ernie Weeks (and we all know how much Dad LOVE him!) had been appointed to be the state superintendent and everyone at our district office was meeting to "rearrange" positions to cover what needed to be covered. Dad just wanted me to know what was going on before I got to school and heard rumors there. I kept saying things like "Really" "When" "What" "Did the state know what they were doing?" He kept answering my questions with really short fast answers. He insisted that he was in a hurry and needed to get off fast. He was talking as he was walking backward toward his car which was parked on the side of the road. As he reached for the door handle, he said, "Oh, by the way, check your calendar, today is April Fool's Day." Then he jumped in the car and drove away, laughing at me all the way, I am sure!

If there is April Fool's Day in heaven, I am sure he is laughing at me again, remembering how he snookered me that day!