:: Captain's Personal Blog ::

Stardate: Tuesday, April 02, 2002

Would you believe that after all that happened yesterday, it was an April Fool's Gag? My Ex-Girlfriend said everything she did as a gag. Heh heh heh................................... I'm sorry, but that's not right. If you're going to do a gag that involves the core of your friendship, you do NOT do it over e-mail where there is no such thing as sarcasm. In my own defense, it all came about in a volley of e-mails.

In my first e-mail response, I laughed a lot (typed "Ha ha ha" a lot.) The response I got was a very serious one, which I shrugged off by saying "Fair Enough." Her response seemed an angry one which demanded that I defend myself. At this point, I was reluctant to go on with the game, so I opened both barrells and let her have it. As if the whole thing were real. I figured if I was wrong and it WAS real, so much the better. If not, lesson learned.

Unfortunately for her, she does not realize that I knew the truth. After I unleashed, I got a response which read "Do you know what day it is?"

My response was "I certainly do." She didn't get that I knew it. So she thought I fell for it. Now she gets the silent treatment. A lesson not to try to mess with emotions like that. It's the sort of prank which is allowed, but only in person. You need to be able to read someone for something like that. If not, don't steep your prank in such an emotionally charged subject.

Cruel? Maybe. But I think that turnabout IS fairplay.
:: J 10:06 AM [+] ::
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