'Sir, your shoelaces are undone'
I look the girl in the eye and say 'no they're not'. Her response is to shout out 'April Fools'. Except that she didn't fool me and let's be honest, telling someone their shoelaces are undone isn't going to make them feel that foolish anyway. I very maturely and tactfully pointed out that she was the fool seeing as it hadn't worked. Which was a lot of politer than when one of my year elevens tried a similar trick. I just called him an idiot.
Rather more spectacularly a year eight turned up to my lesson with ketchup all over his face and pretended to be bleeding. I sent him to wash it off and got him to make up the wasted time at break, during which time I gave him a stern what-if-I'd-really-thought-you-were-bleeding speach and explained how cruel that sort of joke could be.
April Fools' Day is really stupid.
2008-04-01 @ 17:51