Every year, on April 1, serious and responsible people ask themselves the question:
- What now?
Undoubtedly, this is a terrible time of the year. A time when for some reason everyone is drawn to rash words and deeds.
But everything is not so scary, and by observing a few simple rules you can survive this day with minimal losses.
Here is a basic checklist of how to behave on April 1:
- Buy a sick leave for this terrible date from a doctor you know in advance;
- Disconnect all phones, remove batteries and SIM cards from them;
- Turn off the Internet, come up with a response text and set up an autoresponder on e-mail and phones;
- Stock up in advance with food, books (Internet, radio and TV must be turned off - this is a prerequisite), knitting, paint or wallpaper, in extreme cases, a puncher - everything that will help pass the day;
- Be sure to turn off the doorbell, and hang a sign on the outside door that will scare off neighbors - the tape with which the police hangs around crime scenes is quite suitable;
- It is necessary to purchase earbuds in advance and insert them into the ears on the evening of March 31st. If the beads are sold out, they may well be replaced by music playing loudly through the headphones;
- To be on the safe side, hang tightly, or even better paint over the windows.
If you didn't manage to sit out at home, you need to be patient and with the courage of 300 Spartans to plunge into this day, having compiled in advance a list of what cannot be done on April 1:
- Make important appointments;
- Discuss serious issues;
- Believe the news (there is a suspicion that they should not be believed on other days of the week, but this is not certain);
- Count on the seriousness of others around important issues.
We understand that this list is not exhaustive, but each of its items is the result of bitter experience, and there is a suspicion that it will expand.
Good luck to you! And see you on April 2...