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call 911........call 911
Dude called yesterday to tell us about being ready at 5:30 AM, packing a lunch and then the man called and said due to impending rain - no work. Said he was going to school on those days he didn't work. SO...okay - exhale.
Later an urgent call came. The kind that you hope to God you never hear from your kid and it went something like this -
Phone rings - and it's like static, can only hear every other word, but I can hear Dude and he's yelling, and so are the 2 guys in the car with him, the reception seems to go in and out, but I can hear him yelling Mom....in a panic.
Mom? Mooooooooom? MOM!!!!!! MOM?????? CAN YOU HEAR ME?
-then voices in the background yelling "GO GO GO MAN GO-----turn off your lights, TURN OFF YOUR LIGHT, GOD don't hit the breaks they'll see us."
then Dude "OMG MOM - we picked up this guy XX knows and apparently he has a pound of marijuana on him and the cops have been looking for him and now they think WE're in on this -
more voices in the background yelling in a rush....GO GO - OMG NO MAN....HE SEES US.....GO DOWN THIS ROAD..NOW NOW......
Then I hear "Mom....MOM can you hear me?"
I somehow manage a calm - "yes - what is going on?"
"I cant talk Mom - the cops are looking for us, I think we ditched them and XX is driving by the house I'll be there in less than 1 minute. Will you PLEASE tell the cops I've been there all night......Oh Mom I can't be arrested again for something I didn't do."
DF said the look on my face was priceless......I really was in shock. I don't know what made me think this was a joke, but I said "Okay - I'll be here." half expecting him to run across the field and into the house. Then there was silence. I said nothing.....I heard nothing......and finally DUde on the phone says
"Mom......? MOM? MOM!!!!!!!!!! MOOOOOOOOOOOOM?"
and I said in a voice that was out of breath -
"Son - I don't know what is going on......but.......(gasping for air) I think......I need your Dad to get me to the emergency room NOW.....I don't know but I think I'm..........having...........a heart attack......" then silence........then Dude yelling MOM more intensely than before and after a longer silence I hear "Mom it was only a joke April Fools......OMG my MOM guys - turn around my Mom is having a heart attack. MOM? MOM!"? and I said "Yes......and he said "IT WAS A JOKE MOM." and you can hear the guys in the car say "Oh Dude man....sorry man...."
Then I said......very softly.....
I know -
APRIL FOOLS...
OMG I don't know who wanted to cry more - him or the guys in the car.
apparently the peach does not fall very far from the fuzzy tree.
Later an urgent call came. The kind that you hope to God you never hear from your kid and it went something like this -
Phone rings - and it's like static, can only hear every other word, but I can hear Dude and he's yelling, and so are the 2 guys in the car with him, the reception seems to go in and out, but I can hear him yelling Mom....in a panic.
Mom? Mooooooooom? MOM!!!!!! MOM?????? CAN YOU HEAR ME?
-then voices in the background yelling "GO GO GO MAN GO-----turn off your lights, TURN OFF YOUR LIGHT, GOD don't hit the breaks they'll see us."
then Dude "OMG MOM - we picked up this guy XX knows and apparently he has a pound of marijuana on him and the cops have been looking for him and now they think WE're in on this -
more voices in the background yelling in a rush....GO GO - OMG NO MAN....HE SEES US.....GO DOWN THIS ROAD..NOW NOW......
Then I hear "Mom....MOM can you hear me?"
I somehow manage a calm - "yes - what is going on?"
"I cant talk Mom - the cops are looking for us, I think we ditched them and XX is driving by the house I'll be there in less than 1 minute. Will you PLEASE tell the cops I've been there all night......Oh Mom I can't be arrested again for something I didn't do."
DF said the look on my face was priceless......I really was in shock. I don't know what made me think this was a joke, but I said "Okay - I'll be here." half expecting him to run across the field and into the house. Then there was silence. I said nothing.....I heard nothing......and finally DUde on the phone says
"Mom......? MOM? MOM!!!!!!!!!! MOOOOOOOOOOOOM?"
and I said in a voice that was out of breath -
"Son - I don't know what is going on......but.......(gasping for air) I think......I need your Dad to get me to the emergency room NOW.....I don't know but I think I'm..........having...........a heart attack......" then silence........then Dude yelling MOM more intensely than before and after a longer silence I hear "Mom it was only a joke April Fools......OMG my MOM guys - turn around my Mom is having a heart attack. MOM? MOM!"? and I said "Yes......and he said "IT WAS A JOKE MOM." and you can hear the guys in the car say "Oh Dude man....sorry man...."
Then I said......very softly.....
I know -
APRIL FOOLS...
OMG I don't know who wanted to cry more - him or the guys in the car.
apparently the peach does not fall very far from the fuzzy tree.