Letter writer who was born on April Fool’s Day can’t take one more prank disguised as a gift.
Each birth anniversary, there's a well-meaning but hurtful practical joke. Everyone — family, friends, teachers, co-workers, boyfriends — thinks they're the first person to play their joke and expects me to laugh. Because I love them, I try to play along, but it gets tougher each year.
I open beautifully wrapped presents, but there’s nothing in the box , or birthday cards are full of glitter or other messes . I get visits from “police” with arrest warrants , “CPS caseworkers” with orders to seize my child . I answer wee-hour calls telling me to rush to hospital because somebody’s hurt . My husband asks for a divorce and bosses fire me . I’ve bitten into birthday cakes flavored with hot sauce or baked with salt instead of sugar .The church women’s society met on my birthday.
I don’t want to be an old sourpuss who can’t take a joke, but I don’t know how to face them or think of a nice way to ask friends to please stop pranking me on my birthdays. What is a gracious way to get out of this?will find this suggestion, Miss Manners suggests playing tricks on them. And that is to pretend that after 26 years of enduring these mean-spirited attempts at humor, you fail to recognize them as such.
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