Yesterday was April Fool's Day, a day I pretty much look forward to every year. I want to teach my girls to be the best April Fooler's around, but it seems a little early to be tricking them at 5 and 7 years old.

Once they were up and running around the house I did the proverbial "spider on your arm trick", which they of course did not believe since I had prepared them the day before for such trickery. I pretty much let them off the hook as I prepared to tackle bigger fish.

Facebook seemed like a good place to pull an April Fool's prank, so I thought really hard about what I could do that might be plausible. I don't know where it came from but it struck me that I could update my Facebook account from my iPhone and people might think I was where ever I said I was. So, I posted that I was stuck in the elevator in one of our tallest buildings.

I wasn't sure if I could pull this off and make it believable until the responses started coming in. Here's pretty much how it went:

Curtis D. Tucker is actually stuck in an elevator on the 8th floor of Continental South! The Otis guy is supposedly on the way... grrrrr!

Curtis D. Tucker at 8:43am April 1
I hear banging. Can someone bring donuts?

Friend #1 at 8:45am April 1
I was stuck in the elevator YEARS ago!!
Fun times!!!

Friend #2 at 8:49am April 1
Stephanie was stuck in that same elevator when she was 9 months pregnant. Chlosterphobic (sp.) & pregnant- bad combintation!

Friend #3 at 8:51am April 1
I've been stuck in an elevator for YEARS... and it keeps going down and down....

Curtis D. Tucker at 8:54am April 1
Lights just went out. Gotta love the iPhone flashlight!

Friend #4 at 9:11am April 1
Yikes - I hate elevators! Laura & I got stuck in one at the medical plaza building by St Marys & it took L a while to recover!

Curtis D. Tucker at 9:30am April 1
Okay, now I've got to go potty. This is not looking good. I think the other guy just farted.

Friend #1 at 9:43am April 1
How many "friends" are with you?

Curtis D. Tucker at 9:43am April 1
Does anyone know Bunker Hunt? He sounds rich and keeps sayings millions on the phone.

Friend #4 at 9:46am April 1
Are you STILL stuck??

Curtis D. Tucker at 10:03am April 1
Still stuck. Just Bunker and I. They can't get the doors open enough to crawl out. Now they're yelling something..

Friend #5 at 10:52am April 1
I just don't know Curtis, You're stuff is breaking and now you're stuck in a box. Just what have you been up to?

Curtis D. Tucker at 11:17am April 1
Looks like we're crawling out the roof...

Friend #6 at 11:18am April 1
ha glad to hear it ! I was just getting on to tell you that you jenxed us! Heating element on our dryer went out last night.Grrrr stop sharing the love, would ya?! Hope you get out soon! Record a dance for YouTube while you wait. :)

Curtis D. Tucker at 11:47am April 1
Have you ever stood on top of an elevator? Bunker is trying to climb the cable. Guess I better give him a boost.

Friend #5 at 11:50am April 1
ok, is this an april fools joke?

Friend #5 at 11:51am April 1
i think bunker hunt might be an oil exec....

Friend #4 at 11:55am April 1
It just occurred to me that your story is just a very elaborate
April Fools joke, very clever Tucker - you got us all sucked into your saga....

Curtis D. Tucker at 11:56am April 1
I'm free! I'm free! Thank God I'm free! Thanks for playing along.

Friend #5 at 11:58am April 1
tell bunker hello

Friend #7 at 1:00pm April 1
Glad you are "out". I was just going to call Darrell to come rescue you in his big red truck.

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