Please check the calendar
Today, check the calendar before doing something silly. On social media, the announcement from our heritage department that one of our historic sites had been rented out for the summer seemed legit. I mean, in these trying times, business needs a helping hand. When the next paragraph mentioned that the historic home would be used as the set for one of those extended dating dramas, something clicked.
Later, when a well-known law firm posted that they were under an injunction concerning webcams at a refuge center, it seemed legit. I mean, the law has interesting ways of interfering in our lives. The next paragraph mentioned that the injunction was on behalf of a selected group of felines. Again, something clicked.
A small city in Ontario learned that there are plans to dredge a canal through a local island, owned by a group of cottage owners… on behalf of canoeists that are tired from paddling the perimeter of that island. Digging to begin, soon. Is that true?
More digging ahead. The thought of a canal to replace the Suez (recently blocked by an oversize container ship) would seem like a benefit, except…
By tomorrow, this will all have evaporated, like the vapour on the field below here. Ephemeral. And the date says volumes. Don’t be an April Fool.
We’re lucky that there is only one foolish date left on our calendars. Imagine if this happened every month? I mean, we have a hard enough time sorting the real from the fake news, without multiplying the possibilities. I am able to wait for the facts, but others tend to “jump the gun”.
