Created 1-Apr-09
Modified 13-Aug-20
Its April 1, 2009. Doreane calls: "Be ready with your camera ... Ryan thinks his car has been stolen...we are 3 minutes away." So Ryan arrives with his mother to tell dad about the calamity. Little does he know that his mother has "stolen" his car while he was picking up a tuxedo with Victoria (also in on the caper). Doreane, arriving late to the tuxedo place, parked her car across the street, hid his car around the block and went in to see how the tux looked. When they came out the car was gone. Ryan can't believe it...but there is an empty space exactly where he had parked his car 20 minutes before. Doreane insists he must have parked it somewhere else, "where"? Does he have any outstanding parking tickets, perhaps it was towed. "No. No. No. It was stolen". Doreane immediately dials the "police" and has an excited conversation with herself about what happened. When "asked" where it was parked, she says there is no street sign, she can only describe the location. She hangs up and tells Ryan to get in her car, so they can look for a street sign. Coincidentally, they have to go past my office and low and behold, Ryan says, "there's dad, we'd better tell him." Doreane says, "We've got some bad news, Ryan's car is missing". "What do you mean, Missing? Well, it was just stolen and the poilce want to know what the name of this street is." "It's Park Street. You should know that, my office is on Park Street." "Well, I didn't know"says Doreane. Ryan says, "Dad, I can't believe this." "Why, Ryan", says Doreane, "It's April Fools Day." Well it didn't sink in at first and then the camera began to click. Suffice it to say, that the last word I heard out of Ryan's mouth was, "Dad, you have custody from here on out, this woman is crazy."
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