Gottaluvapril

The phrase works because it is a verbal shrug. It acknowledges that control is an illusion. You cannot negotiate with April. You can only accept its whims. When you post a photo of your car encased in ice with the caption #gottaluvapril, you are not complaining. You are performing a ritual of shared experience. You are telling your followers: I see you. We are in this together. Let’s laugh.

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Now, at 4:47 PM, the sky had turned the color of a week-old bruise. The wind had teeth. And Leo was standing in the parking lot of a grocery store, shivering, holding a single bag of frozen peas—not for dinner, but for the egg-sized lump forming on his forehead. The phrase works because it is a verbal shrug

He laughed. It hurt his face. He laughed harder. The sleet turned to actual snow—fat, wet flakes that melted on his windshield and made the world look like a shaken snow globe. April, everyone. You can only accept its whims

The story: a rogue shopping cart, a patch of black ice that had no business existing in April, and a physics-defying face-plant into a concrete wheel stop. He’d been trying to rescue a lady’s runaway cantaloupe. The cantaloupe, naturally, was fine.

When the windshield wipers freeze, when the pollen coats your laptop, when you have to scrape frost off the grill the day after you used it—just whisper it: gottaluvapril .

The most obvious reason for the sentiment is the weather. In many parts of the Northern Hemisphere, April is the only month where you can plausibly experience a tornado warning, a frost advisory, and a pollen cloud so thick it resembles a biblical plague—all before lunchtime.