
You may find this difficult to believe based on the serious and sober nature of most of the things I write, but I do have – let’s be kind – and unusual, offbeat, ever so lightly skewed sense of humor. Don’t try to argue with me. I know it’s true. (I didn’t notice anyone arguing. You could have as least said, “No! Really?!” That silence hurt!)

A phrase like the nice day comment requires excessive creativity to turn it into something useful. A phrase like: “I heard it is supposed to rain later. The forecaster said it was going to rain cats and dogs. Don’t step in a poodle.” Ha, ha, you think to yourself. What a witty response that was. Too bad I heard it in third grade. Okay, that one was a little lame. But seriously, who are you trying to please? Others? If you wanted to do that you wouldn’t be making jokes at their expense. You are really trying to amuse yourself so you won’t go crazy and go postal on people who don’t like your sense of humor. Of course I would never do that. (I like to call it going FedEx. It’s like postal but a lot faster.)

The meetings themselves give even a mildly creative person loads of potential material if they can time it just right. It is all in the timing as Gary, my fencing instructor, told me after stabbing me forty-six times in a row! Allow me to elaborate by giving an actual example from a meeting I attended. The meeting had begun and one of my fellow attendees says, “I hope this meeting will be over before lunch.” My comment was, “It shouldn’t last much longer than the last ice age.” It was pretty funny. It would have been even funnier if I’d have said it right after the person said it instead of three days later when we were both standing at urinals in McDonald’s. Although it did have an affect on him, it was not the laughter I had hoped for.
