Joking All Around
All day today I wanted to play an April Fool’s Day joke on someone, but never managed to. First I was busy with writing, then I could only think of mean ones. Sad, I know.
But at last my wish was granted. As I drove back from picking up some research books at the Duke library, I was watching carefully for deer. As you know, me and my car are something of a deer magnet. But I’ve gotten good at spotting them before they leap into the road, and besides, I was driving our behemoth of a station wagon, so I wasn’t too worried about the puny deer we usually see.
Until I saw one the size of a moose, right by the road.
I didn’t yelp, but my heart did. I also braked fast–and realized it was a white horse, in a pasture.
Yep, I’d say the joke’s on me, and whoever set that one up gets kudos for somehow convincing the freakout factory in my brain that a pale white horse could double as a little brown deer.
Hope you had a great April Fool’s Day!
