Write about someone who goes to great lengths to avoid being pranked on April 1st, only to realize they had the date wrong and it’s already April 2nd.
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It was January, 2007. We were in the final semester of Engineering. One day one of our classmates was teasing one of my friends. I was somehow irritated by that and decided to teach her a lesson. I decided to fool her on the fool's day itself.
She was selected to a famous company in campus interview (I am replacing the company name with ABC).
I sent out an email with carefully drafted content:
Hi there,
We are happy to inform you that we are conducting a workshop on C and Embedded Systems. For this, we have planned to include some selected freshers who will be joining the company in 2007. We are happy to inform you that you are one of those selected members. We are offering this to make you ready for the job by the time you join us. There will be a test based on C and Embedded Systems as a part of the workshop. The test will be online. The test has been designed so that we will be able to test your proficiency in the field and gives you a hint about improving yourself in these fields. If you are keen on taking the test, please follow the procedure given at the end. If your performance is good, you will get certificates, and you will be put on fast track into R&D. Hope your response will be positive.
Procedure:The test will be held on Sunday, 25th of March, 2007 at 10:00 AM. So you are requested to logon to http://ABCworkshop.awardspace.com at the specified time.
With regards,
Manager
ABC
Using a free server which supported sending direct emails, I had spoofed that email to come from [email protected] so as to make them believe it. I had also setup a dummy page with the company logo and a countdown timer for the test. Probably the web page I created was convincing enough, because no one doubted about the page being in "awardspace" domain. I sent this email to most of my friends who had got selected to that company.
This became quite a news at the college. Each one of those who got the email started asking others, whether they had got the email too. Since most of them had got it, they believed it to be true, and started studying.
On 23rd March, just two days before the scheduled date, I sent another spoofed email which read:
Hi there,
We have got an overwhelming response for the test we are conducting as the part of the workshop. We have also got some feedbacks about the test, and many have complained that the time is not sufficient for the preparation. So, we have decided to postpone the test by one week. The test will be held on Sunday, 1st of April, 2007 at 10:00 AM instead of Sunday, 25th of March, 2007 as it was announced earlier. We hope this new schedule will provide you with sufficient time for the preparation.
With regards,
Manager
ABC
With this the stage was all set to fool her on the Fool's day.
The next challenge for me was to set up the website for them to "take the test". Out of my laziness, I procrastinated it till the last day. On the night March 31st, I created a fake login page, where they had to enter their name, email id and the college name. I set an internal timer, so that the login page would be visible only after 10 AM the next day. Till then, it showed the good old count down timer and asked them to login after 10 AM. Using the information entered in the login screen, I had set up an automated email to be sent them. After sufficient testing to make sure everything was perfect, I dozed off.
So, here is what happened next:
Out of sheer excitement of taking the test from "her company" before even she joined, she was all set to take the test. Exactly at 10 AM, the login screen popped up as designed. She logged in, hoping for the online test to appear. But instead, a big "APRIL FOOL" message popped up. Just to assist her to get the answers correct, she had taken her friend also with her, which proved quite disastrous. She was humiliated to the core in front of her friend, to whom she had boasted enough about their company. Some other friends also had tried to take the test and got fooled. Each of them had got a mail with me copied, so they couldn't deny it the next day:
Hi user, You have been made APRIL FOOL
Congratulations !!
Your ABC Manager,
M G Harish
So, I had achieved what I wanted, by fooling her on the Fool's day. In the mean time, I had helped them in disguise, by forcing them to study.
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March 31st. It was like any other night. I was asking my son who was 13 then to stop using my phone and go to bed. A few mins after he went to his room, I and my husband went to bed.
My husband is a light sleeper, and I sleep as soon as I hit the bed. I keep a weekly alarm that rings around 5 in the morning.
I normally switch it off and sleep for some more time before I wake up. When the alarm rang, I switched if off without even noticing it, and slept again. It rang again in 10 mins, I thought I snoozed it by mistake, and switched it off. When I was trying to get my sleep, it rang again. This time, my husband was irritated that it was ringing again and again.
So, I completely opened my eyes to switch it off properly only to see that the time was 1am in the morning.
I was confused as to why my alarm was ringing at that time. I switched it off and went to bed. It rang again. I started wondering whether there is some problem with my phone alarm or my phone. I switched it off again only to hear it ring again. By this time my husband who was furious took the phone and switched it off completely.
Before I could sleep, I was having so many thoughts as to how I could get the phone fixed in short time? Whether there would be some other problem other than the alarm?
Next morning, after my son woke up and had his milk, he asked for the phone. I started describing the previous night's ordeal with him and asked him to check the phone alarm. He listened to every thing carefully.
Then, unable to control his laughter, he gleefully told me that he had set the alarm to ring every 10mins as an April Fool's prank.