no laughing matter

you know what you don't tell someone on April Fools Day?
you dont text her at 8:30 a.m. and say:
'my ex wife wants me to take the kids for good.'

no, no, no you don't.

this message came from Ripped. things have been going casually well since our first meeting a month ago. but just recently, i sort of got into him.

we texts me all day long at work. all night long when i am at home and all weekend long when i am in detroit. so, we have a pretty great thumb-to-thumb relationship. so this message caught me way off guard.

i thought:
holy crap... here we go again. another baby's daddy. i'll be packing up my things and leaving now. thanks for all of the free drinks.

but... it turned out to be an April Fools joke. something that jolts you is not funny. i told him that thumb-to-thumb.
as i was trying to explain to him why this may bother me, i thought, wow, Ripped doesn't know my history. he really never asked. what the eff?? dont you want to know about me?? or are you one of those selfish dudes?

either way. not a funny joke. now a rubber snake on my toilet seat is funny. kids? not funny.