trouble maker!

I wanted to blog about something else, but I just can’t get over The April Fools Joke Gone Wrong.
What am I talking about?
Everyone that reads my blog and knows my local hang-outs knows that I love Cat’s blog. She’s awesome. She give us our weekly dose of American Idol and lately she’s been ‘oohing and ahwwing’ over Constantine. He is her greek god.
Everyone that eKnows me knows that Shaun makes fun of me, Kathy, my Mom-The Fonz..and well just about everyone. It’s funny. It’s funny when he puts my mom’s head on The Fonz or after Kathy posts about a dream about Robin Williams he makes a poster of her and her new ‘love’. It’s all just fun and games.
April 1st is his favorite day of the year. He has ‘gotten’ everyone he knows. There is a great story about the year he got his dad with a fake phone number, but I won’t go into that. His dad would kill me if I repeated that story!
This year he didn’t really ‘get’ to ‘get’ anyone, but he was inspired a post that Cat had made on her site about Blinky having a arrest charge from the past.
I was at Bingo so I missed how he had spent hours trying to make sure that it looked real enough so Cat would freak out for a few seconds.
Shaun doesn’t really know much about computers and when I start talking geek he sort of just tunes out. He paid attention the night we were working on the design of my blog and how I had to remove certain things to get things to fit. I had found a ‘Yahoo’ template from blog-templates on blogger and I mentioned how cool it would be to have it as my template, but he said I would soon get bored of it. I had saved the page just in case later I changed my mind.
Shaun changing a template would be like me asking him to rewire the space shuttle. Somehow he managed to do it though. The ‘fake’ story fit PERFECTLY with the design someone had made and he posted it. It took him all night, but the thought of Cat opening that page and reading about her greek god possibly being removed from American Idol would be well worth the night of playing ‘geek’.
It worked! Cat was April Fooled.
We all got a giggle out of it.
Apparently Cat isn’t the only one who saw it.
People FREAKED THE FUCK OUT.

Now I’m sitting here thinking about if this actually goes somewhere.

If only they could see this ‘horrible, malicious, asshole’. This is the guy who spends his days taking care of people in need. Coming home and taking care of 5 kids (and me) and his nightly routine of dinner, helping with homework, running kids to dentists, softball practice and managing to find time to watch his two favorite shows. 24 and American Idol.

It’s weird how people take things out of context and go on attack mode. Yeah, he made a joke about Cat’s greek god that wasn’t sposta be seen by anyone outside of his 5 readers (four of which are my family)

I know there is a million other things out there on the internet that are MUCH worse, things so bad that I can’t even fit them into my head. I also know there are ‘rumors’ and ‘hoaxs’ out there (William Hung dying of an overdose, Napoleon dynamite dying in car crash, Michael Jackson molesting children – oh wait…sorry) but it’s just weird to see how some people respond to a joke. I never in a million years would have expected people outside of our little group to see the April Fools joke. I certainly wouldn’t have thought that people would have FREAKED THE FUCK out about it either.

So, I guess the moral of this post; Watch what you’re writing because you never know if you’re going to end up on a forum, a website, a message board, the nightly news.