I don’t know about you, but I have a quirky habit of thinking that something is so funny, even when it is either only vaguely amusing, or in some cases, not funny at all. For instance, I remember one time a long time ago, one my restaurant co-workers and I went to a movie—a Sinbad movie at that! From what I just said, you already know that the movie was most likely not funny. However, I can tell you that the co-worker and I both cracked up laughing at this one particular scene (don’t even ask me to remember the scene; I don’t even remember the movie). The problem was, no one else in the entire theater laughed! Our fit of laughter could have had something to do with the food and drink we'd had (or drinks rather).
More recently, the other day, I was told something anecdotally that was just a cute story about someone else (I won’t bother to share because there is no context I could make you understand), and one part of it struck me so funny that I actually slapped my knee! Not only that, I chuckled about the incident ALL DAY! Even now, I find the corners of my lips turning up as I remember the story.
So today when I’m on the phone with my husband today, he says to me, “I’m going to look to you for help on this.” It doesn’t matter what it was per se; all that matters is my response: “Well, you can look to me all you want. I will probably just blink back at you really hard.” I know exactly why this particular phrase was so funny and part of it is because the subtext is that no matter how hard he looks the help probably will not materialize.
I suppose my weird sense of humor is because I'm a word nerd combined with the factI find humor every day. On top of that, I like the stories that are infused with humor.
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