CPA's Are of the Devil!

Imagine my husband's surprise yesterday when, in the middle of another mundane day at the office, his truck alarm suddenly started to blare. Assuming he had bumped the alarm button on his key chain, he silenced the noise without getting up to check to make sure all was well. A minute later, his secretary came to his office to inform him that his truck alarm had been set off.

"Thanks, but I've already turned it off," he told her. But she said it again and insisted that he go check it out.

He went to the parking lot of his business office and found broken glass everywhere. The driver-side window of his truck was missing, and on the front seat was a rock with this inscription: CPA's are of the devil!

At first, he thought it said cars not CPA's and thought that some environmentalist group was attacking his truck. But then he realized someone was attacking his profession--maybe an angry client who owed a lot of taxes, or something. He told his secretary to call the police and he began to try to wrap his mind around what this all could possibly mean. He was busy--it's tax season, people--he didn't have time to deal with a crime scene investigation at the moment.

As he stood there, scratching his head, his brother-in-law Jason, and his friend Jeff (who both happen to be my husband's clients) drove into the parking lot shouting: "April Fools, Aaron!"

To which he replied: "Yeah, April Fools. Would you look at what someone did to my truck?"

Jason and Jeff laughed, shouting "April Fools," again.

"Yeah, I know it's April Fool's Day, but look at my truck! My secretary called the police. I don't know what I'm going to do."

Aaron didn't get it. The fool was on him. This was no hate crime against our overburdened tax accountants; it was nothing more than a well staged April Fool's prank. The window wasn't broken, just rolled down. And I'm not sure where they got the glass from, but Aaron assured me that it looked very convincing.

Thanks, Jason and Jeff, for giving me the laugh of a lifetime! This was one April Fool's Day we will never forget. I only wish someone would have snapped a few pictures.