April Fools! Did you know that this isn’t an American only celebration? As a matter of fact, it is a world wide celebration and started over 500 years ago maybe even before that, depending on which origin you believe. There are quite a few different stories on how this started. One is some Europeans would celebrate New Years the whole last week of March and through April 1, while others celebrated in January. So, the people with the January parties made fun of the ones in March/April, and so came April Fools. There is a ton more and you can read all of them on Wikipedia if you want along with some practical jokes people have played over the years.
Now, if you decide to take a little journey into Wiki-land and learn a little more about today’s celebration history you will see this picture;
I found this picture quite amusing for many reasons. This photo was taken in Denmark, officially Kingdom of Denmark, one of the least corrupt countries in the world second to New Zealand, and also has the highest level of income equality. Looking at this photo with the main focus being the cleverly placed subway car which appears to be coming up through the ground with some street tiles tossed around. Very well done. But you can’t help but be distracted by the kid in the one piece snow suit(no snow on the ground) with a look on his face that says he’s already pissed that his mom dressed him like this and drug him out into public and then made him stand in front of this thing for a photo. Now given these two objects in this photo are quite comical, I find my focus wasn’t drawn neither to the kid nor the subway car but to the wonderful American handprint that is labeled with a Burger King and KFC sign in the background. Ahh, there’s nothing like seeing a Little America in every country. I bet to make it up, to the pissed off youth in the picture, the mom bought him a happy meal with a Junior Whopper and fries. And the whole way home, in his snow suit, he played with the crappy toy he got and forgot all about the embarrassment his mom bestowed on him that day. I wonder if that kid was ever curious enough to look up April Fools and was suddenly and sadly reminded of the traumatizing day. I hope so.
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