What a fool believes.

"But what a fool believes he sees

No wise man has the power to reason away
What seems to be
Is always better than nothing
And nothing at all keeps sending him..."

We all can be gullible at times. If it has never happened to you, I am sure I have made up for your abilities to read through the lines of not being duped. 

One of the best ways to make the most of these situation is to pull practical jokes. I have pulled them, had them pulled on me, and been involved when others pulled them on unsuspecting victims. Whereas they are funny, when done well, they can be very destructive as well. 

A few weeks ago, my associate and I took a walk during lunch. She is in much better shape than I am, is pregnant, and makes me look like the 20-plus years older I am than she is; she’s also very funny. As we were walking, we started discussing practical jokes. Whereas she is pretty good at them, based upon the stories she told, her husband deserves a major award for his actions. I mean, these are standing ovation situations.

One of my favorites was when they had hired contractors for work on their home, and as a practical joke, her husband called them (mind you these guys are working on THEIR home) and said they had run out of cash and were not going to be able to pay them. This is a very dangerous joke as you might imagine—-one that could come back to haunt them if not disclosed in time to thwart them walking off the job. I don’t know how he did it, but this went on for a rather extended period of time that day. If it were me, and I was pulling the joke, well….that would not have been one I would have pulled. In the end, all worked out, there was a good laugh and their house was featured in a magazine; in the world of practical jokes, that was gutsy.

She asked me about ones I had pulled and although it was nothing like what her husband had done, I did have a few to provide. One of my favorites has been pulled twice. It involved a business associate, a client, and a false eye. The first time occurred when one of my associates was bragging how this client, who is a friend of mine, would like her more. I usually shake these things off, but she was serious. I said, like a 12 year old, “whatever.”

Once I thought further about this, I started to think about how to get her back. 

I called the person she was going to be meeting with, and we devised a plan. After the plan was set, I approached her and said, “You know so and so has a glass eye, right and when he gets excited, it starts to click?” She didn’t believe it for a second. (ding, ding.) I said, like a 12 year old, “whatever.”

When she went to the meeting—-sure enough my contact was wearing glasses—-and as the meeting started, and they got into talking, the clicking started. All of the sudden, his eye popped out. (It was a marble I had sent to him that was the size of an eyeball that rolled on to the table.) She screamed when this happened and he truly had trouble containing himself. Recently I did the joke again, but did not take it to the level I had a few years ago. Before she went to the meeting, and after she had called me and apologized for not believing me, I knew I had to stop it  before the meeting. She still is untrusting of me several months later…wonder why?

The photo above was taken at my daughter’s 5th grade party. I had rented a “fish-eye” lens and was having a lot of fun with it. The photos of the kids (and some adults) were really unflattering; I knew if I put them up on social media sites I would probably get in a lot of trouble. For some reason, placing my photo up was ok—-for me, playing the fool can sometimes be the best journey to take in life, not matter what you believe. 

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