I have never done anything for April Fool’s day and this year I decided I would. It was my first attempt (two actually), and they turned out decent.
On the office:
I spent a few hours after work rigging up a glitter shower above Andy, Seth and Brandon at our mytrade office. I drilled a 1/2 inch hole in the ceiling, put funnels filled with glitter in the ceiling (drop tiled ceiling), stopped up the funnels with a playing card and tied a string to that card. The string fed into another room. When I pulled the string, the card would unstop the funnel and glitter would rain down on the guys. All 3 were set up but unfortunately Andy’s didn’t fire, the funnel had got missaligned. However, Brandon’s and Seth’s did work. The glitter didn’t come out as fast as I’d hoped and they had time to move after the initial hit but that’s the best I could do with a 1/2 inch hole. What’s really funny is that they both noticed the hole but ignored it. haha.
I had Todd film it. He acted as if he was checking out how they have the office laid out for ideas for his office. Lame but it worked. Nick was filming Andy but like I said, his didn’t work 
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Side note: I had told my girlfriend that I’d be home by 6 that night, but it took me waaaay longer to set up than I thought. I was busy setting it up when she called a couple times and I had gotten glitter on my face in the process of working on it. So…. I was extra late coming home, I told her I was “working late” and I had glitter on my face. LOL. I know she trusts me but it was pretty funny.
FYI the reason I couldn’t tell her what I was doing is because I didn’t want her to suspect anything. I had plans for her as well:
Ever since I started Jiu Jitsu I’ve been concerned with getting cauliflower ear. It looks terrible and is failry common in wrestling, jiu jitsu and other MMA. You can get it from one very bad injury or many repeated injuries to the ear. So I decided I’d tell her that I had a very bad injury tonight in BJJ class while sparring. My brother helped. He texted her asking why my gym might be calling him, said he missed the call, and asked if I was ok. (he is my emergency contact). I later texted Brittany with a story of how I took a very hard knee to the ear and my ear was extremely damaged. I told her that the owner (an ex-MMA fighter) looked at it and said I’d almost surely have permanent swelling.
Here’s the pic:
After dragging it out a little longer once she got home, I decided to tell her the truth. She wasn’t too happy with me, but eventually came around. I was expecting her to be concerned with dating a deformed troll, but she was actually just concerned for my well-being. That kinda backfired lol.
All in all it was a fun April Fool’s day and I hope to continue next year with something bigger and better. We’ll see!
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landonswan
