foolin' in 2009
I undertook two themes of minor mischief this year. The first was the same mischief I undertook last year with respect to Josh:
I lost my cell phone (on april fools day, of all days!). Can you text me your phone no.? Thanks"
While last year I received no response, this year Josh texted me with a query of how I was texting him if I didn't have his number. He then gave me his number. Success!
The next was a general theme: that I found a person crazy enough to sell me a clumber spaniel, and that I am obviously irrational and unstable enough to act on that availability and to get a clumber spaniel for myself, despite the fact that I work all the time and live in a shoebox. I tried it on Tom this morning, and it seemed fairly successful, insofar as he didn't outright say, "This is obviously an April Fools' Day joke." But picking on Tom is really picking the low-hanging fruit, especially since he's been in his pupillage year: every day is like finals, and every situation is a law school question.
"Does your lease allow you to have a pet?"
Well, no, Tom, it probably doesn't, but my landlords like me, and I think I could persuade them to let me have a dog. What is your advice?
"I think you may run into a problem with them."
I wasn't a star law student, but I wasn't a terrible law student, and while I might not have gotten any B minuses in law school (certainly my fair share of Bs, however), I think that would probably be a B minus answer. It was easy for me to rebut that analysis, and then I asked him if he wanted to come with me to Derby on Saturday to see the puppies, but I should have known he wouldn't respond after that, because Tom never responds to my texts/emails/messages when I ask him to do something with me. Quasi-success?
I tried it out on my boss, too, but it's unclear if that was successful either:
She hasn't responded yet. It's not clear if she's read the note. If she has, it's possible she thinks it's real, because she has a tendency to avoid responding to troublesome or problematic e-mails in the hopes that problems will sort themselves out first. But ten minutes after I sent it, her secretary came into my office and said, "Bob, I've just read your letter to Sarah (secretaries know everything about us, everything), and it's so exciting that you're getting a puppy!" Success, I guess
Stay ever vigilant--
/B/
I lost my cell phone (on april fools day, of all days!). Can you text me your phone no.? Thanks"
While last year I received no response, this year Josh texted me with a query of how I was texting him if I didn't have his number. He then gave me his number. Success!
The next was a general theme: that I found a person crazy enough to sell me a clumber spaniel, and that I am obviously irrational and unstable enough to act on that availability and to get a clumber spaniel for myself, despite the fact that I work all the time and live in a shoebox. I tried it on Tom this morning, and it seemed fairly successful, insofar as he didn't outright say, "This is obviously an April Fools' Day joke." But picking on Tom is really picking the low-hanging fruit, especially since he's been in his pupillage year: every day is like finals, and every situation is a law school question.
"Does your lease allow you to have a pet?"
Well, no, Tom, it probably doesn't, but my landlords like me, and I think I could persuade them to let me have a dog. What is your advice?
"I think you may run into a problem with them."
I wasn't a star law student, but I wasn't a terrible law student, and while I might not have gotten any B minuses in law school (certainly my fair share of Bs, however), I think that would probably be a B minus answer. It was easy for me to rebut that analysis, and then I asked him if he wanted to come with me to Derby on Saturday to see the puppies, but I should have known he wouldn't respond after that, because Tom never responds to my texts/emails/messages when I ask him to do something with me. Quasi-success?
I tried it out on my boss, too, but it's unclear if that was successful either:
She hasn't responded yet. It's not clear if she's read the note. If she has, it's possible she thinks it's real, because she has a tendency to avoid responding to troublesome or problematic e-mails in the hopes that problems will sort themselves out first. But ten minutes after I sent it, her secretary came into my office and said, "Bob, I've just read your letter to Sarah (secretaries know everything about us, everything), and it's so exciting that you're getting a puppy!" Success, I guess
Stay ever vigilant--
/B/