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Happy spring everybody. How are you? As I write this it is over 70 degrees outside. Glad I worked out all winter. I will look great in my tight fitting Under Armour gear. ALONG with my lovely, fit wife, I might add.
The answer to last month’s quiz What is the origin of the Ides of March? The Ides is a Roman term for the approximate middle of the month. Actually, it is the 15th for March, May, July and October and the 13th for the other months. 13th? Don’t ask.
This month's quiz, again for a movie pass (members only): This month’s quiz, again for a movie pass: In Greek mythology who is Persephone? For a free movie pass, e-mail your answer to Andrea Wanner at andrea.wanner@brickbodies.com.
Well, it is that time of year again. You know. April 1. April Fools Day. And, you guessed it, I am hiding out again. Remember last year when I had my staff show up for a phony staff meeting only to be greeted by a young woman wearing a gorilla suit? And how I got up really early and set all the clocks in the house ahead one hour so when Lynne woke up she thought she was late and headed out the door to teach a class one hour early? And how I went over to my son’s school and moved his car? Well, this year my results were mixed.
I did get a bunch of staff to show up for a phony deposition at the office because they thought they were being named as defendants on a civil suit against Brick Bodies. And I did get a bunch of staff to call what they thought were hot leads, only to get, of course, dial-a-prayer. And I did write my son a letter from a phony school offering him a basketball scholarship. And I did get my daughter in Australia all worked up because she thought she was involved in the lawsuit. And I did get my brother to call dial-a-prayer long distance from Florida because he thought he was getting a $30,000 credit on his company credit card.
But they got me too!
Jeff Order didn’t like getting hooked on the phony civil suit so he and Lynne concocted a story about her spraining her ankle very badly and having to go to the hospital. Now, we are leaving tonight to go to the NCAA Final Four Basketball Tournament in St. Louis, and the thought of my lovely wife trying to get around on crutches did upset me. I must admit, when I called her to see how she was doing, I did use the Lord’s name in vain, once, and only once. It did take me a moment but then I realized I had been had. But nonetheless, they did get me.
And then one of my staff, Merlowe, had her daughter Alicia, a student at Maryland, call me and pretend she was doing a reference check on Merlowe for a job position. (That’s not fair, is it? Using young children for jokes!) Again, I must admit I was wondering why Merlowe would be interviewing for another job, but after I hung up I realized that on this day nothing is as it appears.
Well, if you can’t take it, don’t dish it out.
Now, why do we play these silly games on this silly day? Because you can’t take yourself too seriously. If all you ever think about is the next sale, it is easy to get you to call dial-a-prayer with the thought of being able to make some more money. And, even though we are facing a serious law suit (a member says we used his picture in advertising without his permission) we still need to be able to laugh at ourselves. Laughter really is the best medicine.
Sure, some things are more serious than others. But, in the end, isn’t all that really matters is your health and the health, happiness and love of the people close to you? Hey, my wife had a brain tumor. I am not going to go to pieces over a lawsuit. And you want to know something. We joked about that tumor two months after the operation. Well, maybe not two months because it took a year for Lynne to get it back together. That’s right, one year. But we joke about it now. And we probably should have joked about it more then. Because laughter really is the best medicine. Now, I gotta go. I know Neil Westford is out there laying for me somewhere.
Semper Fi,
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