Fertility Doll

There is a really funny story behind this picture. I hope my friends don't mind me sharing this story. It's too good not to. I'm going to try to explain it as best as I can. I might be missing some of the details.

 

So my close friends Shirley & Gat have been trying to conceive a baby for the past year or two, but without any luck. So they hear from our friend Julie that there is this fertility doll from Japan that she used (carried around with her, kept by the nightstand, etc) when she got pregnant with her daughter. And the fertility doll has been passed around in her family with great success. At this point Shirley is willing to try whatever it takes, so she asks Julie to send her the doll.

 

Well Julie happens to work at the same place as the resident jokester of our group, Sunny. So the two of them hatched this plan to play a joke on Shirley & Gat. Sunny created this doll using a plastic water bottle, paper and some scotch tape. And they mail this doll to Shirley & Gat passing it off as "the fertility doll".

 

Fast forward a few days. Shirley gets this package in the mail and tears it open expecting to see the special fertility doll. To her surprised it's this ridiculous looking doll. I'm pretty sure she thought it was a farse, but she didn't want to offend Julie by saying anything. And of course, she has no reason to believe it's a joke since Julie isn't the kind of person who would play a joke like this. Little did she know that Sunny was the mastermind behind the joke. So anyways, she is desperate so she carries this doll around and does her best to believe that this silly looking thing will help them conceive.

 

A day or two later, Sunny and Julie came clean and confess to the joke. This will forever go down as one of the best practical jokes anyone in our group of friends has ever played. And yes...Shirley & Gat have a great sense of humor. They got a huge kick out of the joke. :)

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