Things I Don't Do
- garysjordan
- Mar 31
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 1
2025-03-31
There is, of course, much risk of repeating previous posts here or on Facebook or on my LiveJournal Blog. I don't care. There are a bunch of traditions in which I do not participate and the imminence of April First prompts me to share some of them.
You may surmise that April Fools is first on the list. My scents of humor lean heavily into word play and puns, and not at all into pranks and deceptions. I do not enjoy making someone the target of Three Stooges level pratfalls or humiliation. Nor do I enjoy being the target, to the extent that I think an appropriate retaliation is to grab the perpetrator, hold a sharp knife to their throat and say, "Don't worry, I'm not going to cut your throat." Followed by a whispered, "April Fools." Thirty seconds of tension after that should be sufficient to make the... point.

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