When I was in High School we decided to pull a prank. We thought it would be funny and then we could sort of scream “April Fools” although it wasn’t April.
We are High School kids so don’t get all pompous and angry here… we never knew the possibilities.
The story concerned a friend of ours who we claimed had been selected for some very special privilege which is why she did not come back to school after the Easter break.
In truth we, her close friends knew why she couldn’t come back but because she was our friend we made up a story, added bits to it, so that it sounded very believable.
We whispered the story to some blabber mouth who got it all over the school.
We felt so cool, giggling and saying; “Really? Wow! That is Great!”
This went on and got bigger and bigger and bigger and it wound up that the Principal believed the story and mentioned the great accolade one of our students had attained, and without calling her name, repeated the story we had made up.
We felt kind of funny and wondered if we ought not say something.
Enough was enough.
I told my mother who reminded me of the “7 with One Blow” from the ‘Brave Little Tailor”; a Grimm Fairy tale.
When we went back to school we tried to tell people that it was a fiction.
“Shut your mouth! You are just jealous that She got the prize and You didn’t!”
Everyone hated me now.
My friends, seeing what happened to me said, we’ll just have to keep it to ourselves.
So, school ends in June, the story continued into next term.
Being a teenager, I really couldn’t get my brain around the fact that I made up a story, my friends added bits to it, and the world believed the story and didn’t want to hear the truth.
It was not the last time this happened. I didn’t make up any stories, but I heard them being made up, (Whitehouse Insider) and no one believed that it was a farce. Even to this very day people still think Ulsterman Reports was true..
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That's a real life experience from which you learned a valuable real life lesson.
Yeah, people will believe just about anything and refuse to see reality.
yes, that is the problem with people believing in rumours, gossips and couldn;t figure out which is a prank joke after all
WE were trying to protect her. (Just take a guess why she couldn't come back to school) so we made up something positive.
But it taught me that if you hate Obama you want to believe the worst of him. An item published on a site with no credibility will be held up as proof because people really want to believe the worst.
I have never liked pranks of any kind in my life ever.
Neither when i was small nor right now. For me every humour or fun should have a limit like every other thing in this world.
Somethings can never be accepted even if they are done only for the sake of fun
But I am happy you have learned a lesson for life.