Apr 22 2009
Better than an April Fool’s Joke
In my first post I wrote a disclaimer to my friends and family saying that they better be careful because if they did something funny/embarrassing, I would probably write about it. I also told them that if they didn’t want something mentioned then they would have to bribe me. Well, after my mom read that, she said, “What about me making you granola?” And I said, “That would work. So does that mean you don’t want to write about what you did the other day?” And she said, “I come from the land down under.” Just kidding. That’s not really what was said but it just reminded me of that song. What she really said was “Oh, you can write about that.” And I was thinking, “Sweet, I got granola and a story.”
I once read about an April Fool’s joke that a wife played on her husband. She had replaced his spray-on deodorant with orange spray paint. So when he was putting on what he thought was deodorant, he was blasted with orange spray paint. Which leads me to my story.
The other day, my mom took a shower like she does everyday. After she got out of the shower, she put on some deodorant. This particular deodorant is the spray-on kind. (lift arm…squirt, squirt…lift other arm…squirt, squirt) No big deal. The hard thing about spray-on deodorant is that it is liquid and one has to wait for it to dry, unless they want to get deodorant all over their shirt. So as my mom was waiting for her deodorant to dry, she started to blow dry her hair. As she is blow drying her hair, she thinks to herself, “That’s weird. My armpits are really sticky.” And then she realized that instead of using the deodorant, she had used hairspray. (Or should I say Lipstick?)
Sidebar: A couple summers ago, some neighbor friends were talking about a movie they had just seen and how it was really good and we should see it. However, they couldn’t remember the movie’s title. They said it was a musical and it had a really good message for teens. And my mom, who always reads the movie reviews in the newspaper, said, “Lipstick?” And they responded, “No, not Lipstick…..Hairspray!” And we laughed and laughed. Although my mom got it wrong, she was in the right vicinity and jogged our neighbor’s memory to get the correct answer. But that doesn’t mean that we couldn’t still have a good laugh.
Back to the story. I don’t know why she used hairspray. It was obviously an accident, but maybe she wanted to style her armpit hair. I’m just kidding again because she doesn’t have armpit hair. If anything it would just be armpit stubble and I’m pretty sure she wouldn’t be able to style stubble. Hence, there would be no need for her to use hairspray on her armpits. Since she had no need for the hairspray and it was quite sticky, she had to take another shower. Luckily for her, she did it correctly the second time and used the deodorant. Unluckily for us, she did it correctly the second time and used the deodorant. It is unlucky for us because it would be a much funnier ending if she had had to take a third shower. But, the water drinker in me says, “That’s a good thing that she didn’t have to use more water because then that means that there is more water for use elsewhere.”
Now, the reason for the title. This little incident was better than any April Fool’s joke I could have played on my mom because she did it to herself.
