April Fools Joke

So there’s this guy I work with – let’s call him Joe.

Joe walks every day. A couple times a day. Around the building a couple of times. Probably at least a mile each trip. He has his walking shoes and socks that he changes into and out of. Every day.

One day last week, when he was changing back into his ‘normal’ shoes, he cried out – “where’s my sock?” He has his shoes and socks in the bottom drawer of his file cabinet. But – one sock was missing. He only had 1 sock. Two shoes, but only one sock. He looked in both drawers, he looked under things, he moved things, and he even looked in his lunch box. No sock. It was gone. He said he felt like a second grader, losing his sock at work. We were laughing so hard. He even told his wife he was late coming home because he lost his sock and he was afraid to come home. (It really was meetings, but it was funny)
Well what’s coming up? April 1. Hmmm…what to do what to do. Two pair of socks was purchased. When he got back from his walk, Bruce took a sock over to him and asked if it was his. Joe said “probably – where did you find it?” Bruce said, “It was on the floor of my cube, under the shelf.” Joe said “I can’t imagine I brought it with me over there, but whatever. Thanks”. We were all cracking up. Then Betty did the same thing. Took a misplaced sock over to him. At this point he’s suspicious. He opened the drawer where he usually keeps his shoes and socks. Another one mysteriously appeared in his drawer (now it has 3 socks) and one shoe got up and walked away. So now – he has 5 socks, but only one shoe. We are in hysterics! Joe walked over to the other side of the office. “What do I do with 5 socks and only 1 shoe?” They were discussing the shoe and sock dilemma, when Tim came out of his office and said “I’m going to take you all to HR if you don’t stop talking about your underwear!” More comments were made. More laughter. As it was somewhat dying out, Sam chimed in “It’s too common anymore – all this Socks and Violence.” Man oh man – we were at it again. Now everyone is laughing. Joe came over to my cube and started wondering out loud who would have done this. He wandered back to his office and started looking for his other shoe. I went in and said, in my Mom voice “Now where have you looked? Did you move things? Did you look in and under things?” Well when he opened the top drawer of his cabinet, there they were – one shoe and one sock. We were laughing so hard. Now he has his socks, both his shoes, and now wants to know whose socks the other two pair are, and do they want them back? They looked new, so we told him to keep them! When I left Thursday, he still didn’t know who did it. At least not who the instigator was. He knew we were all involved somehow.