When humor hurts: A day of regret

Sometimes there are things we can make jokes with or prank people about because we don’t know what state of mind the person is in or how he or she will handle the prank, but because we just want to catch fun with people’s emotions, we tend to prank them with their present situations without even knowing what they are dealing with in their lives.

Funmilayo has been my friend since I was a child. We grew up in the same city during our secondary school days. We also share the same birthday month, but after we graduated, we went to different universities, which separated us for a while. After she graduated, she was lucky to get a job immediately after she graduated from university while I was still searching for a job.

We still talk on the phone, and whenever she is on leave, she normally comes to my side because she doesn’t have any long-time friends like me. So one day she told me she was getting married on the phone, so I supported her and the husband, and as I was working around my area, it means she will be moving back to where I stayed.

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I was happy for her and also because I will get to see her often since she is moving closer to me; let’s just say we are inseparable sisters. She got married, and two years later, I want to surprise her with an April Fools Day dinner, so I called her and told her that I saw her husband with another woman in a bar kissing each other.

It was a perfect time to call her because she was just at home watching TV; meanwhile, it was on the first of April, so I wanted to see her since she has been busy with marriage and work for some time.

She rushed down to the bar I was at, and the way she was panting made me happy that my plan worked on her, so she said, “Where are they, babes? I need to see the two of them right now.”

I replied, “Calm down; they are here, but you need to control your emotions and, of course, your temper as well.”

So she sighed and said, “Look, I am as calm as an ocean, so now tell me where they are.”

I pointed at one corner where I had already put small drinks on the table with a barbecue chicken, and she rushed down there, but on getting there, she didn’t see anybody, so she turned back and asked, “Where are they?”

I smiled and shouted with a smile on my face, “April Fool.” Immediately I said that she sat on the chair and burst into tears. I do not understand what was going on or what to do, so I moved closer and then touched her shoulder.

She looked up at me and shouted, “This is too much, Dara. I don’t like this kind of prank,” while she continued crying.

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Immediately she shouted at me. I knew the April Fool prank had gone wrong because she has never raised her voice at me ever since we were friends, so I begged her because I must have hurt her feelings somehow.

Some minutes later I was able to calm her down, and she started to tell me what was happening in her marriage, how her husband has been treating her and cheating on her with different women, which I had no idea about before planning my April Fool prank.

I feel so sorry, and I regret that I pranked her with her present situation in her marriage; it was as if I touched a wound in her body, so I apologize, and ever since then, I have never pranked her or anyone again because I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings again.

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