Mischief is play as long as it stays playful.
For years on the morning of every April 1, I could count on my young daughters rigging the kitchen sink faucet to spritz anyone who turned it on. “You rascals!” I’d yell as they looked on, cackling. “You rapscallions! You scamps!”Source: Photo courtesy Scott G. Eberle .century “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale,” a fox outfoxes the rooster Chanticleer “syn March bigan thritty days and two.” In Scotland, merry pranksters have long observed Gowkie Day on April first— “gowk” means “fool” in the Scots tongue.
A breaking news bulletin interrupted the broadcast. The invading Martians, whose spacecrafts had landed in central New Jersey, made short work of armed authorities with their “heat-rays.” Amid background screams, the breathless live feed went dead. As the aliens advanced on Manhattan island, havoc trailing in their wake, rattled listeners besieged the CBS radio network studios on East 52Playfulness usually saves pranksters’ mischief from criticism.
I’ll ask: What brought you here? How do you keep in touch? What do your kids like best about this country? What’s your favorite restaurant in the city? And, whatever do your relatives make of snowstorms? I hear fascinating stories of home and plucky stories of adaptation and As a captive passenger, I’ve also had more than one unamusing encounter with home-grown American conspiracy theorizers.
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