By ALIYAH BIDWELL, Student Reporter
My best April Fool’s prank was in my 6th grade year of school. I got my inspiration from my band teacher from the 3rd grade.
He acted like he lost his memory for a whole day. I put my own twist on it, though. I decided that, for April Fool’s Day, I was going to lose my voice.
I knew no one would believe that I suddenly lost my voice. So, I decided to build up to April 1.
Little by little, I lost my voice. On April Fool’s Day, I showed up to school and stayed quiet.
I am a talkative person, and the ones who didn’t believe that I lost my voice tried to tempt me to talk all day. But I didn’t.
I wanted to tell my friends, but I knew I would get caught, so I didn’t. I carried a pen and paper all day, and anytime I wanted to say something, I just wrote it down, which slowed my conversations down.
Everyone believed me until the end of the day when the class was lining up to go home. A friend of mine told a joke. I was laughing really loudly, and another girl said, “I thought you lost you voice, Aliyah. You can’t laugh when you lose your voice.”
The know-it-all inside of me replied, “Yes you can.” Up until that point, I had gotten away with the prank.
I asked a friend of mine from back home what the craziest April Fool’s prank she ever pulled was, and he said he decided to prank the principal.
He wanted to plastic-wrap the principal’s door, and he wanted to wrap everything in his office with aluminum foil.
He wanted to pull this prank on the principal because they were close friends who work together because my friend is the janitor.
He also decided to do it because the principal pulled a prank on him the previous April Fool’s.
It was easy access because he had the key to every office. He told me that he had to use duct tape to get the aluminum foil and plastic wrap to stay in place.
He did the room first because the plastic wrap was going on the door frame. Then he did about 100 layers over the door. They both thought it was funny. No one got upset.
However, the principal did say that he would get him back next year, and he did.
The next year, all of the janitor’s stuff was on the theater stage in a pyramid.