ARE YOU LAUGHING AT ME?
Well are you.There are some people I don’t kid. I don’t joke with these people. I don’t think I have permission to do so.
Perhaps you know people like this. They are deeply serious people – especially about themselves. They might tell a joke or tease someone but you don’t feel as if you have their permission to do this with them. It’s not that these people are unpleasant or mean. No, they are just serious – deadly serious!
You can quickly put people at ease by laughing at yourself.
Laughing at yourself and the WHOLE world laughs with you.
I love to be around people who laugh at themselves. These people don’t mind telling you stories about silly things they have done. They tell stories about themselves and then enjoy the laughter of other people. They have a way of putting others around them at ease. I feel so comfortable around such people.
Yet, there are people I don’t feel comfortable with. I don’t tease them or use very much humor with them. I don’t feel at ease around them. They take themselves far too seriously for that. I recall once watching a friend trying to playfully tease such a person. The guy got tense and then shot back some sort of barb. It was an awkward moment. I think my friend learned that the other guy was very self-conscious and took himself very seriously.
So what can you tell us about yourself that will make us laugh, what are you prepared to share with all at CS that will put a smile on the dial of even the most serious observer of the blogs.
To get the ball rolling I will share what my kids think is the funniest thing that they have ever seen. (at the time they were 12, 11 and 6)
I was living in Tasmania at the time and it was the beginning of December.
We had decided that we would go to Launceston to do some Xmas shopping. (about 1 ½ hours away from where we lived)
Our car suffered a flat along the way, I changed the trye and continued, A little further we came across a little repair yard, and the kids wanted to go to the toilet, so I pulled into the repair yard.
It would take them about 15 mins to replace the flat tyre with a new one.
In the meantime I asked where my kids could go to the toilet.
Directions were given, and off we went around the back of the building down the road a little towards a long shed.
In we go, toilets are on the far side.
Kids started walking around the wall whilst I went the shortest way, straight ahead. Silly me, After two steps I had sunk to the bottom of the pool that I never noticed. It had a clear plastic covering it but I didn’t think it was covering a pool.
All wet and still an hour’s drive from our destination, how can I dry my clothes, Hang them out the window and on the back shelf is how, all I was wearing was my jocks (underpants).
Kids laughed from the moment I walked on water and fell in until about 15 mins short of where we were going.
Absolute true story.
Now its your turn.
make us LAUGH
Comments (53)
Maybe, so why dont you share something funny you have done?
i'm sure that there is something in your life that has been funny?
Recently, on a very hot day I fell from the stairs in the institute where I am working meanwhile. It was a great luck that noone had seen me falling, as it must have beengiving an embarrassing picture to them..
As I occasionally play Tennis, my body reaction didn't prevent me enough from slipping from a step, but at least it lasted for preventing any injuries on me..
So I guess, being a bit fit can be a great advantage in ebarrassing moments..
My next challenge will be to get the driving licence. I guess, instead of laughs many car horns will follow behind me..
If you can not join in the spirit of this blog, i'd ask you to just ignore it.
This is a blog to encourage Bloggers to have some fun and tell a funny story about themselves.
Up[ to you if you wish to share.
thank you.
The fact that i didnt even realise that the plastic was covering a pool made it all the funnier to my kids.
I'm glad you didnt get hurt when you fell down the stairs.
Have you ever been hit by the ball while playing tennis?
And maybe the people on the footpaths should be careful when you get your licence.
everyone stared saying why have you kept Shakiras pic as your DP
that was very funny
I am sure that with any colour hair you would look more beautiful than Sharika,
But can you shake your body like her?
Now that would be good if you could.
And have learnt all the tricks needed..
People on the footpaths? Gosh - haven't been thinking of those..
you can share your secret here,
theres only 287,629 people on Cs that will see your answer. Maybe some more or less than that figure.
Actually, i just made that figure up.
What sort of tricks do you need when playing tennis?
I'm sure you will be a good driver when you get your licence.
Well thats how many read the blogs,
Let me put the word out to the forums as well.
That should increase it to a total of 397,843. That should be a big enough audience for you to share your biggest secret.
I was waiting for you to say that it was Liz (Queen Elizabeth)in the military green Land Rover that you followed under the archway.
So you can honestly say that you have been inside the grounds of Edinburgh castle.
So all this this time we have been blessed with royalty and you never told us.
HRH Zman.
Has a nice ring about it.
Thanks for encouraging me for the licence! I guess, I will have to get a small car first..
I am sure i will be safe when you get your licence, after all i'm in Australia and you're in Austria.
In no time you'll be able to drive not only a car, but also and a maybe.
Dont you mean
SIR Zman...........
Btw,you seem to be a good tennis player. Thanks for the tips!
Sorry i shouldnt laugh, but that is funny,
i am just imagining you driving onto the roof of the servants quarters.
you never fail to make me smile, I would far rather laugh with you than at you. Thank you for the chuckle
You say the nicest things,
You really do know the way to a mans heart,
And as always, it is lovely to see your beautiful smile grace the blogs.
I wouldn't say something I don't mean, you are way too humble
And you are so very lovely, Thank you.
If i bring a smile to your face, i am glad, your smile is radiant.
And i say what i mean, and mean what i say.
if you had been there maybe you would be like my kids, laughing so much until tears were running down their cheeks.
I only took 2 steps before i sank to the bottom of the pool.
Even i had to laugh afterwards, thinking just what was i thinking.
Why would I ever laugh at you? It is that funny fella in the pic I'm laughing at. Does he not look very much like an overstuffed sausage? I bet when he climbs into that pool the water climbs out.
Yes well that is one way of looking at it.
have you thought of using that as a pick up line,
I can assure you that the fellow in the pic is NOT ME.
That was the pic that closest resembled the story i was telling.
Although i am larger today than i was back when this happened, I'm not as large as the guy in the pic.
Many years ago, I was so young,, 25 yrs AAhhh!!!!!
well I got off the bus and started walking to where I used to work.
I dont know how. But I fel flat on my face. 2 young men came to my aid.
helped me up. Then I realized I was wearing 1 shoe. I was more than 10 ft away.
One of these heros even got my shoe for me.
My face was red as a tomatoe..... said thank you... and fled.
I felt so embarrased
Looked behind me several times to see if any co- workers were walking behind me
and maybe say the whole thing.. When I arrived at work, I recalled my accident,
I was laughing my head off. Those guys really seed concerned and all I wanted was to
diseapear,,,, till I arrived at work thats when my laughing started
Too funny...I had tried to walk through a glass sliding door... maybe the glass was too clean!!...I looked like an idiot and people laughed at me...it was similar to the ad for windex on TV...
Thank god for the 2 gentlemen then.
Thats funny, did you slip on a banana peel.