Whether you're the Fool or the Fooler, let's hear about pranks from yesterday.
Here's mine:
Selvan, a coworker, and I are teaching a class of 24 students this week and I was able to get him pretty good on an April Fool's joke with the whole class as witnesses.
We use a digital projector to display presentations and the various pieces of software we use as we teach. I swapped the background on the instructor laptop, which is connected to the projector, with the following background:
I hid the desktop icons and the taskbar which really made it look like something was seriously wrong with our $3000 projector. As soon as he walked in the room, I asked him if he'd had any problem with the projector the day before and if he'd given it time to cool down after he used it. I could see him sweating it a bit as our manager had recently made a big deal out of having to repair/replace equipment. We went back and forth for a bit suggesting what could have possibly have gone wrong and some of the class (which watched me as I swapped the wallpaper) were starting to chuckle. Selvan suggested we just rent a projector from the hotel. I reminded him it would be pretty expensive to do that, even if "we did it just until April 2." He caught on immediately at that point, sitting down and putting his face in his hands repeating, "I didn't just fall for that! I didn't just fall for that!" The entire room, laughing out loud at that point, starting clapping. Selvan, of course, has sworn revenge.
