I'm a gullible person, or so I've been told. Many times.

In my defense, I think it's not so much me falling for things as it is me believing people to be better than they really are.

I would like to take people at their word. I would like to believe the people I know wouldn't say stupid things in such a way that leads me to believe they're true. I would like to believe they wouldn't knowingly use such traits against me for their own amusement.

But they do

As much as I hate it and try to avoid it, I've long since come to accept the fact that I'm an easy target, a sitting duck for jokesters.

Harsh as it may be, it's not nearly as bad as the day the entire world teams up to make a mockery of people like me.

I have been fooled by too many on this joke of a holiday and so today I say 'ENOUGH!'

I refuse to be tricked by the dozen fake baby announcements and marriage proposals I'm likely to hear of.

I am taking a stand to be 100% skeptical of everything I see, hear and read.

Really, Google mail, you expect me to believe your vowels aren't working today? Nice try.

Really, receptionist at the doctor's office I called today, you expect me to believe you don't have any open appointments for six weeks? You almost had me fooled.

Incidentally, the receptionist wasn't joking nor did she appreciate my assumption that she was. It made me realize that, even though I am trying really hard to not be made a fool today, I still look like one.

I dare say that I come across as an even bigger idiot when I assume everyone is trying to trick me than I would if I just fell for a lame joke.

Fool if I do. Fool if I don't.

I hate this stupid holiday.

I'm going to go watch Punk'd. At least I can recognize their pranks.