Janis's Stories from the pastentitled"APRIL FOOL'S DAY" |
I can remember so well the jokes that my father played on my mother and myself on April fool's Day. My mother used to get so mad with my dad and use to try and beat him with one of her jokes but she never succeeded. They were great times that I had shared with my parents in Greet Rd. Thinking back on my parents I have to write this poem called Treasure
Parents are special. So guard them with care
Cherish and love them. Whilst they are still there,
Cheer them and comfort their pains and their fears, Help them and show them your thanks through the years.
Give them your patience, as they both grow old,
For the love you have shared, is more precious than gold.
APRIL FOOL'S DAY is a very old tradition and nobody can say with any certainty, how it came about. Someone has suggested that it originated to help us to judge a man by how he takes a joke against himself.
Author and playwright J. M Barrie was modest and humorous. And always ready to tell a story against him.
He used to relate how one of his admirers gave her friend one of his books The old lady took such a long time to read it-days, weeks, then a month. When her friend asked how she was getting on with it she would say, "It's dreary, weary, uphill work, but I've wrestled through with tougher jobs in my time, and please God I'll wrestle through with this one!
I am sure that J. M. Barrie would have passed the April fool's Day test. Only a great man would have repeated a story like
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