How Mary Fooled John on April Fool's Day

Yesterday I told an AC friend about the April Fool's joke my friend played on her husband and she thought I should publish it even if it is a couple of days late. So here it is.

To protect their privacy, I'll call my friends John and Mary. Mary told me about this incident several years ago.

John and Mary had both been married before and had children from their previous marriages. Mary even had a grandchild, but was still very attractive and young-looking, and John was still young at heart.

John was superintendent at one of the smaller country schools in the area, and Mary worked in the school office. John was known for his ingenious pranks, so on this April Fool's Day, Mary decided to beat him at his own game.

She got one of the school secretaries and another friend outside the school to help her pull off her best April Fool's joke ever.

Up in the morning, when her husband was present in the office, the phone rang, and was answered by the secretary, who handed the phone to Mary with the explanation, "It's your doctor's office." John knew Mary had been in for her annual gyn exam a few days earlier, so was naturally interested in the contents of that phone call.

Mary took the phone and listened a minute, then said, "That's impossible! I can't be pregnant-I'm a grandmother already." In a state of obvious shock, she hung up the phone and said to her husband and the secretary, "There has to be some mistake. That just can't be."

Her husband insisted that she call back and get more details, and in his presence, she called back the number that had just been left on the school's caller ID. He thought it was the doctor, but in reality it was her friend, who confirmed the news. Mary was pregnant.

As the news was beginning to sink in, her husband emerged from his state of shock to one of delight. He would love to have a baby with this beautiful wife. Then he thought of the insurance and asked the secretary to call his health insurance company to see if his policy included maternity coverage. He didn't know because he had never expected to need it.

His secretary made a call and soon delivered the message that everything was well; the delivery would be covered. I'm not sure if she actually called the company, or if she just told him she had, knowing it wouldn't really matter either way.

Within a few hours, John was walking on air and sharing the good news with everyone who came into the office.

Just before time to leave school for the day, Mary dropped the bomb. It had all been an April Fool's joke. John accepted the news with mixed feelings. But he was man enough to admit he had been had.