On a flight from the West Coast to the East Coast, the lead flight attendant was overly excited to get in early as her boyfriend, a pilot, was going to have a short stopover at the destination airport. She made a point of telling her fellow crew members about this. Now being April 1st, the Captain decided to have a little fun.

About an hour out, he made a little announcement over the public- address system that went something like this:

"Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the captain speaking. I have a little bit of bad news. There are some thunderstorms at our destination and they have currently closed the airport. They expect it to reopen in about thirty minutes to an hour. As one might expect, this is causing quite a backup and is resulting in long delays. As we have come all the way from the West Coast, we don't have enough fuel to circle until the airport re-opens. Therefore, we are going to be diverting to Boston and we should be landing in about thirty minutes. We'll take some fuel there and get you back on your way to our original destination. I'm terribly sorry for the delay however, we'll get you there just as soon as possible."

It was at this moment that you could hear someone running up to the cockpit. The cockpit door flew open and sure enough it was the lead flight attendant mumbling in total disbelief that this can't be happening.

As she went on in total incoherency, the captain made another comment similar to this:

"Ladies and Gentlemen, APRIL FOOLS..."