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