In an attempt to amuse my co-workers and supervisors at work today, I made a wisecrack that may have backfired. I don't really know, though. If it DID backfire, it wasn't horrible, but just bad enough that no one laughed, and now they all find me a little bit stranger than before.
Here's the setup:
We're having a meeting, wherein we're all looking at the various components of one of our in-progress projects, and a question pops up that no one can answer. The question floats around the table in an I-don't-know.-Do you?-Nope.-Me neither.-Do you know?-Nope.-kind of way for a good five minutes or so, until it came around to me.
I decided to be the funny guy and say this:
"Well, I don't know about you guys, but I think it's a good idea to have weekly meetings like this to pool our ignorance. Is someone taking notes?"
There was a solid five or six seconds of SILENCE.
Then, the person next to me said, "Well, I don't know, either."
Hmm.
No worries. That's really funny. I think the silence was because they didn't get it, not because they were offended.
ReplyDeleteI guess I am the joke police?
I'm glad YOU liked it, Hilary. At least someone did.
ReplyDeleteNo worries - I've finally convinced myself that I am, regardless of anyone else's interpretation of the things I say, downright hilarious...to me.
Honestly, bro, I prefer reading what you have to say over watching The Office (and_that's_saying something).
ReplyDeleteI could see something like that in an Office script. But it's just just what you say, but_how_you write about what's said that I love too. When Rolf showed me your blog for the first time last week, uncontrollable laughter followed. So, all this comes down to...thanks for the witticisms!