fooled!

It's not even 10am and I've already been fooled. April Fool's day hasn't been any more exciting than any other days since high school when we used to play jokes on our teachers and friends. Even then, I was more the victim than the one who pulls the prank, especially since my expression usually gives me out way before I even establish the prank. My 'blurness' also made me a very easy-to-fool victim, which seems to be very entertaining for the guys.

Before I start telling about how I was fooled, I have to say the Spartans have managed to get into the Final Four Championship this year..both our men and women teams!! This is probably the first time in history that both teams from the same uni will be playing in the same conference. The men's team will be playing against North Carolina this weekend at St. Louis while the women's team will be playing against Tennessee. I am not a die-hard fan of basketball but being in a uni that is really big on sports, I do tend to keep up with the scores. Since the last I read about the game, I was very sure that they will only be playing this weekend and I knew that I'm not gonna be missing out on this championship since it's the biggest ever with both our teams playing.

I got into the lab at 8am this morning and Heather told me that we've won the game.. I was like..really? But I just kept quiet because I did not see the news this morning yet and I didn't hear anything last night either..especially not last night since I was so dead tired I was just slacking in front of my pc watching "Before Sunset". Then Heather told Inna the same thing when Inna came in. Dr. Young came in at about the same time and we had this conversation...

Dr. Young: Oh yeah, didn't you guyz watch the game last night? We'll be in NCAA finals! There will be a victory celebration today at noon.
Inna: No!!! I couldn't have missed it at all..omg, no!
Heather: Yeah..I think I heard it on the news this morning. I was just telling Z about it and am wondering why there's no riot going on.
Dr. Young: Yup! We won..log on and check..we've beat them by 1 point.

Inna proceded to log on to the computer to check the updates. Dr. Young looked at me and I gave him a sceptical look but I was completely willing to believe what he just said since I did not hear any news of the day yet and the last I heard about the game was Wednesday.

So I went to check at the NCAA website myself..and boy! I was surely fooled. He was laughing his head off when he found me at the back computer looking at the NCAA front page saying we'll be playing this weekend.

Heather had no idea that he was trying to pull a prank on us either..she only thought she heard it on the radio but wasn't sure what game was she listening to..so she was fooled too. So much for trusting my boss to be the serious one.