Ode to Mike

Me and my practical jokes.

I got an old friend with one on April 1st. It had been a long time since we'd spoken and I told him I was engagd. He bought it, and the joke only lasted a minute. Unlike the real bad one I pulled on him...

I was 17. It was just after my junior year of high school. I'd honed "the call" a few times with other friends, but Mike was the first I really "got". I called and impersonated the voice of our Dean. By that point...I was good. I told him that he'd failed Chemistry. That his final was so low that he'd have to go to summer school to make up the class. I asked to speak to his father. And then I FINALLY let him know I was joking and that it was me. He was relieved.

Except a few days later...

When the Dean really did call to speak to Mike's father about Mike failing Chemistry and having to go to summer school, it wasn't so funny when Mike told the Dean (thinking it was me again) that, "It was funny the first time, Steve."

So that one obviously backfired on me. We can laugh about it now...

Love you Mike!