If anyone should be pissed, it's me.
The whole day before I was telling myself that tomorrow was April Fools and that I always get fooled because I'm so damn gullible. But how am I supposed to remember that when I'm dragged out of bed and shoved into the situation?
GD calls me at 9:07am Friday morning. I was on Spring Break, and had been intending to get up at 9...but of course I had hit the snooze, so he woke me up.
"Have you seen the bad news at the board?"
"Um, no. Can you just tell me or do I have to go see it?"
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"....I think you should see this for yourself."
Half asleep, I boot up and see the main page, with the Disneyland word replacement. I try to look at stuff but the board is running way slow. I hit new posts and see the members list, but then things stop loading. I log onto IM.
"Did we get hacked?"
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"....It would seem so. Did you hit new posts?"
"Yeah, it goes to the members list. The board is down. What's going on??"
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".....Someone got banned."
"Who?"
"Go to the Parking LoT."
"I CAN'T. WILL YOU JUST TELL ME WHAT THE FVCK IS HAPPENING?"
He explained things to me and all I could think was "why would Chris delete the thread and get rid of the information? And he would suspend Kevy, not ban him. We don't do those things. And Kevy couldn't hack us, could he?"
I was beginning to resign myself to the situation when GD told me it was a joke. Grr.
But as soon as I got over my annoyance I found it funny. The only reason the joke went on so long was because GD wanted everyone to have an opportunity to get fooled.
Prudence, they told NOBODY until they were fooled, including me. This has nothing to do with being cliquish.
Besides, why do people get so angry? Nothing was harmed here. If people were pissed at Kevy and Scott it means that the joke went well. Both of them have a good sense of humor about these things. Everything is back to normal, so shouldn't everyone be GLAD that it was a joke and not a real situation?
I'm sure that those that were fooled are a bit embarrassed, especially those that posted in anger. They pulled one on you, neener neener. So what? You're human. Time to laugh at yourself for being had, or at least let it go. That's what I'm doing.
I guess it's good to know that people care so much about our board and the people in this group.