Original Collector’s name: Terry Johannsen
Title of the paper: “Field Project Assignment: Practical Joke”
Class: F220
The name of the professor: Doris Fannelli
Semester/year: ???
Code: 81/63
Informant: C.A
Contributor: Jeong Seo
C.A Oh, let me tell you about this one. George is my boyfriend now. Anyway, I always ride my bike everywhere, to class and everything like that. So, he was supposed to come over and we were going to get a Penguin (ice cream) or something like that. Well, he said (per phone conversation) “Are you ready to go?” I said “Yeah, well, you can come over but I can’t go with you.” He goes, “why?” Well I said I ride my bike today and fell off and sprained my ankle and it’s all bandaged up and I got it on ice and everything. He said, Oh, I’ll still be there in few minutes, can you make it downstairs? (he sounded really worried) I said, Yeah. And there’s this girl in the house who just had a sprain or something and she was on the crutches so I borrowed her crutches. I walked to the door on these crutches. He couldn’t believe it, he was so shocked! Then he bent down to look at my foot to see what it looked like. I said, April Fools!, and he about killed me!
This is a practical joke done by C.A., 19 year old sophomore, to her boyfriend on April Fools day. April Fools has been passed on in these years universally all over the world. Thus, folk group can be anyone who continues this custom and who is tricked regardless sex. April Fools has kept working because many creative jokes are made every year and many people don’t remember it on that day.