A long time ago in hospitals, when you sent a speciman to the lab, you had manually write out a form that was in 3 parts, one for lab, one to floor(for results), 3rd for charges, anyway, it was 4/1, we took a sterile urine cup, filled it with apple juice and then placed a teeny plastic baby in the liquid, made out a requisition for a urine for pregnancy labeled for patient "Jane Doe", I took it to the lab, dropped it off and of course on the bottom, were these words "April Fool", they were in the basement, we 6 floors up but I know the lab got a good giggle....
One April Fool day I called Central Supply, we called them for any supplies that were not already on the patient floors, a woman answered whom I knew, I figured with her being a woman my joke would not work, but I asked her if they had "sterile fallopian tubes"(part of a woman's reproductive system), like they were a piece of egupment, she paused and said, "I will have to check, what floor are you calling from", the phones did not identify the number you were calling from then, of course I gave her the wrong floor name, guess that floor got a surprise when this dear sweet person called back and told them, that she could not find sterile fallopian tubes....
