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Worst April Fool’s Ever (& Sexual Temptation)

Posted by jarrod | Filed under Personal stories, Sexual sin

Happy April Fool’s day. I’ve learned the hard way that people actually take this day seriously. Below, is the intro section of a chapter I wrote in my 13 Ways book. It is fitting for today. I left the bit of application at the end of it for context too. Feel the pain…

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It happened on April Fool’s day my eighth grade year of Middle school. Before school most of my friends would hang out by the outside doors of the gym. As I was walking toward my posse they were all chuckling and looking at me. My first thought was “zip up.” But all was well there. I walked up to them and said, “What’s up? What’s so funny?” My best friend at the time, Lance, pulled out from behind his back an egg. He slammed it onto my head. I stood in shock. I leaned my head over to catch the egg goop as it ran off my head. But there was no goop. Lance had pulled a glorious April Fool’s joke on me. The egg was boiled.

Once I shook off my instinct to pummel him I laughed and thought it was the funniest thing ever. Then he took out another egg. I was putty in his hands. I said, “Let me get somebody.” He gladly handed the egg over.

I was waiting for my other friends to come by. But none ever showed. The first warning bell rang. I didn’t want to miss out on the prank. I had to pull it on somebody pronto. Most everyone had made their way to class except for me, Lance, and three or four of our friends. The last kid to walk toward the door was a sixth grader hobbling on crutches and barely hanging on to his books under his arms.

I walked up to him and said, “Hey, would you like an egg?” Then I slammed the egg on top of his head just like Lance did me. Problem: This was a raw egg.

As the egg yoke ran down his face he looked at me in horror. I was speechless. I spun around and Lance was foaming at the mouth he was laughing so hard. My friends had taken off running trying to contain themselves. I chased Lance around the building as the final bell rang.

Out of breath I decided to simply go surrender myself to the Principal and accept my fate. Consequences were inevitable. I walked into his office and confessed the whole thing. As my story unfolded it was all my Principal could do to suppress his laughter.

Surprisingly the kid had yet to come to the office. I had a hunch he was in the hall bathroom by the office. Sure enough there he stood propped on his crutches swishing water over his face and head. I felt so ashamed. You should have seen me wetting paper towels and helping him clean egg off his face while he slapped at my hand as if it were a gnat. I rambled on about how Lance had set me up, that he (the kid) was my last chance to pull the prank, and so forth. I told him I’d be his body guard the rest of the year. He looked at me with fire in his eyes. You couldn’t blame him.

Unfortunately, I am still just as gullible. Pranks pulled on me aren’t a difficult task. Actually I think fewer pranks are pulled on me now because it’s just plain boring. I’m too gullible, too easy a target.

It’s one thing to be an easy target for innocent pranks. It is an entirely different issue to be gullible in sexual temptation. Upon further thought, gullible may be too soft a word. Naïve is more like it. To commend your emotions and issues to a woman outside of your marriage is a travesty. To entrust your heart and purity to just any woman before marriage can bring brokenness and regret. It’s plain naïve.

Don’t be gullible.

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