April Fools' Day!

I finished my homework; APRIL FOOLS!!
Hey what's that: APRIL FOOLS!!
Oh my GOD!! Britney Spears is sane: APRIL FOOLS!!
These are just a few examples of the jolly good fun that comes with April first. According to Wikipedia, April Fools' Day is celebrated in many countries around the world, and originated in the celebration of the vernal equinox, which marks the time when the sun passes from the southern hemisphere to the northern hemisphere. When the sun passes into the northern hemisphere it marks the beginning of longer days and shorter nights. The equinox doesn't occur on April first every year (in fact it was on March 21 this year), but there used to be universal festivities starting on old New Year's Day (March 25) and ended on April 2, and April Fools is suspected to be a celebration in relation to that festival.
I've always been very cautious about what people say on April Fools Day, because it seems that pretty much everything people say is a lie. Sometimes people get out of control and make up hoaxes that actually cause others to do things they shouldn't be doing. I remember one year (I think I was 11 or 12) one of my friends called me and said that mom had just been hit by a car. I was so upset that I made my parents drive me down to the flower store so I could purchase 3 bouquets of flowers (one for the dad, one for my friend, and one for my friend's brother), and then I made my parents drive me to my friends house to deliver the flowers. But when I got there my friend started laughing at me and then her mom walked outside! APRIL FOOLS!!
There was also one April Fools' Day where me and my friend decided to pool a prank on our other friend, so we went over to her house really early on April Fools' Day and stuck dollar bills and coins in a tree in her front yard. I called her from my cell phone and said that I had found money growing from a tree at my house! And she went outside and found our tree and thought it really was growing money so she planted one of the dollar bills in her yard! APRIL FOOLS!!
In 2003 I forgot that it was April Fools Day, and back then my sister and I were super big fans of Harry Potter. There had been rumors going around that someone died in the 5th book, which was scheduled to come out that summer, and I tried so hard not to listen to any of them so I could find out for myself when I read the book. Well, on April Fools' Day my sister said that she had found a copy of the new book online and had read it and she told me that Serius Black died. I was crushed! I cried for about an hour, and I was very mad at my sister. Later on she told me that she had been kidding and that she hadn't read the book online. But, it turned out to be true in the book anyway, so that bummed me out! APRIL FOOLS!!
Sometimes the pranks pulled on April Fools hurt other people when they were intended as light-hearted pranks. I love pulling pranks on my friends on April Fools' Day, but sometimes it is difficult to know what is too much for someone to handle.