Ha! Good for you! So, she didn't do anything to try and get the fam?

I don't have any reactions yet, but I put a post on my mother's Facebook wall saying that she has decided to get a kitten to keep her dogs company. My dad recently passed away and my dogs are my parents' world. My mom would never, ever get a cat. My brothers will be scratching their heads thinking Mom has finally lost it.

Luckily we're not in the same house, or she'd surely have pranked me before breakfast. ha!
When I was five I woke up and everything was wrong in my room, no carpet touched my feet as I got out of bed, the door was on the wrong wall, I was so disoriented before I figured out that mom had picked up and moved my bed to the total mirror opposite side of the room while I was sleeping in it. Epic.

A few years earlier she had gotten up in the middle of the night and set all the clocks in the house back two hours, the wall clock, the wristwatches, the alarm clock. When dad got up he hurried off to work, only to phone home when he had gotten there with a confused voice he said: "Honey.. this is really strange... I'm at the office.. and ...there's nobody here..." Then it dawned on him.

I like the cat-bit. :)

Oh you meant did mom call family? She found the news through one of friends so a phone-tree was going on but with girlfriends/little old ladies. We don't have much in the way of family us gals. It's us and the kids and the cats, basically. She's a widow.

Best prank I ever pulled was in college, when I and friends moved another friend's entire desk, arranged exactly as she had it in her room, with accompanying chair, into the dorm elevator.

And your mom is evil, dabitch. I mean that in the most complimentary way.

The best prank I pulled was when I was a lawyer in private practice. The day before 1 April I'd bought a magnetic jewelled fake ruby nose stud, and came into work wearing it.

The receptionist's jaw dropped. She was on the phone to our main office as soon as I walked out of the reception area. I let my boss in on the joke and he wound her up all morning about it. At one point I stood just out of view and could hear her talking to him about it: "... completely inappropriate, at her age, it looks ridiculous, what will the clients think, she can't go into court wearing that ...", etc. etc.

Just before noon I went into reception and pulled it off the side of my nose. Her jaw dropped for the second time that day.

Nice one dabitch (^_^)

I told OptimusChyme I was pregnant and asked if I could bring my baby to his wedding. He went ?????? and I went HAHHAHAHAH APRIL FOOLS I FOOLED YOU FOOL FOOL FOOL HAHAHHAHAHHAHAHA.

I think everyone I know who is not actually pregnant punked me claiming to be pregnant today!

(I don't joke about that sort of thing. I'm not superstitious, but I do believe in irony.)

The best office prank I ever saw: someone sealed a guy's cube entrance with clear tape while he was on assignment for 6 weeks. Every time someone had paper to recycle, they would ball it up and toss it in the cube instead. It was overflowing by the time he got back.

I'm actually pregnant.

Flo! But of course you are! When's the baby shower?

My best office prank (sadly not on April Fool's Day, but I thought I'd share anyway):

A coworker of mine used to sort of slide into his office chair, using the slidey momentum to carry him to his desk's edge. I arrived early one morning and carefully affixed various items on his desk to the leg of his chair with nylon fishing line. It worked a treat: he jumped in his chair and slid, and a dozen things on his desk flew all over the place. Very satisfying.

Specklet: Nice one.

My best was when my first boyfriend & I got his sister with the fake pregnancy thing. I was really able to sell it, too.

My friend got pranked by his graduate school advisor yesterday. He sent all his students an email saying, oh btw, I'm off on sabbatical at the end of next week and I'll be gone for a year in Switzerland.
He'd just finished sending me an indignant email about how he really couldn't believe anyone would be so irresponsible when he got another email saying that it was all an April Fool's joke. Phew!