Monday Laughs…
June 23rd, 2008 | Posted in » Just For Fun...
It’s Monday, and we all could use a good laugh. Enjoy this bit of humor…
This morning, on my way to work, I wasn’t paying as much attention as I should have been… and I rear-ended another vehicle. I groaned, dug around in the dash for my insurance, and stepped out of the car to examine the damage.
As I stood there standing along the road, watching steam roll from my punctured radiator, the other driver got out of his car.
You know how the most stressful of real-life situations sometimes simply become funny? Like when you can’t help but laugh at a funeral or the like?
Of course you do.
Well, the other driver got out of his car, and I couldn’t believe it… he was a DWARF, only about 3 feet tall! The laughs started coming (it was the last thing in the world I expected), but I did my best to suppress them in spite of my mind’s imaginative wanderings (how did he reach the pedals, how could he see over the dash, etc.).
I tried… I really did. Dwarfism simply isn’t something to laugh about.
But after he stormed over to me, looked up at me, pointed a finger in my face, and loudly proclaimed, “I am NOT happy!”… I totally lost it.
The other driver exploded. “What. What’s so funny, you moron?”
Fighting back the tears, and struggling to get my laughter under control, I looked down at him and said, “If you’re not Happy, then which one are you?”
And THAT’S when the fight started.
UPDATE: This would have made a GREAT April Fool’s joke!
This story has been taken by several people to be real (including one of my closest friends), so I guess I need to add a disclaimer. It’s NOT REAL… just a humorous first-person fictional writing based on a joke I saw yesterday. Any similarity to events, real or imagined, is purely coincidental.
By selahV on Jun 23, 2008
Oh John, I’m feeling like you did when you first saw the man you hit. do I dare laugh? at least I’m behind a monitor. oh my word. this belongs in the Readers Digest! selahV
By selahV on Jun 23, 2008
did this really happen to you?
By John on Jun 24, 2008
No, it’s just a humorous story, told in the first person. I didn’t quite like the way it was originally worded (it was FAR too brief), so I re-wrote it. That’s why it sounds like it happened to me.