A view from the sky tram in Jasper on a family holiday
It was a normal Thursday morning on a lovely April day. At nine the doorbell rang, interrupting my morning plans. I grabbed my mask and hurried to answer the door. Who could be coming so early in the morning? Because of Covid restrictions, we weren’t getting much company so I had no idea what to expect. Imagine my surprise when I opened the door and no one was there, but our front landing was covered with parcels. I looked out to the road to see if the delivery truck was still there so I could stop it before it drove off. Too late, it must already have driven away. All was quiet. No sign of anyone. Upon checking the top boxes, I noticed they were all from Amazon. They must have been delivered by mistake, but they were addressed to us, some for me and some for my husband. We hadn’t ordered anything recently, let alone a front porch full. How are we going to get them returned? I immediately called to my husband, 'Hurry, come here. You’ll want to see this’. We were more than a little concerned. We must phone Amazon and get this straightened out. First we had better check our credit card statement and see if there were any unexplained charges. I hurried inside and quickly turned on my laptop to go to the bank website. We had recently dealt with a credit card fraud of several hundred dollars against us. Now this. The phone rang. I answered it to find one of our sons calling. Usually, I am delighted to talk to any of them, but I was anxious to get back to the computer. He asked if I had seen his post on our family group chat on Facebook Messenger. I wasn’t wanting to chit chat about our Messenger page. ‘No. I hadn’t seen it’ I quickly responded. He explained that he had posted that a hacker had broken into Amazon’s files. I wanted to get off the phone and get back to checking out our credit card. Even if a hacker might be at the source of our problem, we still had to get it straightened out. I told him about the unexpected deliveries at our door and our concern. We needed to see what we could do to straighten things out. I don't remember how he suggested it, but he thought I should check again for something outside. Still anxious not to be detoured from checking our credit card, I agreed to take a quick minute and look again as he was asking. I guess I could do that for him. As I stepped outside, he (the son who phoned) stepped around from the side of the house with his video camera. Oh boy, I should have guessed this was one of his gags, but why? And then it hit me. It was a lovely April day, April 1st to be exact. It was his April Fool’s joke and this was one of his best, and we had fallen for it ‘hook line and sinker’. And if there was a hacker, we know who he was. This son stole our peace. He confessed that he had planned it for about a year (probably from the last April Fools Day). I remembered that some months before he had asked if we had any empty boxes we could spare. I handed over some boxes that had come with Amazon orders. He had taped them back up and used them for the top of the piles. For the rest of these props, he had ‘begged and borrowed’ boxes from other family members and even some of his employees. Who else might have known his intention or did he work alone? He does live on the other side of the city and had to drive over before work to set his game plan in place. He made a point of parking his vehicle down the street so we wouldn’t notice it. Had we gone as far as picking up any of the boxes, we might have noticed they were empty, but we were too caught up in his grand scale of delivery. Oh well, we all had a good laugh. What some people will come up with to have fun on a lovely April Day!
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JDT
10/18/2021 12:02:54 pm
Love it! :)
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Jean Petersrn
10/19/2021 12:11:02 pm
Keith has always been ne of the most fun imaginative people I know! This is amazing! We're there any gifts by chance?
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Katherine Bezooyen
1/17/2022 05:23:30 pm
This provided a great laugh for me!
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