Nothing Serious

[Frank]

We are sitting in the coffee shop talking general nonsense, you now the stuff people talk with one another when they can't think of anything else to talk about. We had already exhausted the topics of nuns, extinct nuns, the movie 'Australia' , prescription drugs, prescription drugs and their cost, old people and prescription drugs, psychics, dead people, what to say to dead people, belly button piercing, and books by Eckard Tolle.

So naturally the topic shifted to spirit guides. My spirit guide has an unpronounceable name says someone. Normally, that sort of asinine statement makes me say something like:
"What the hell does that mean ?' but I am silent because it is me who said it.

The others at the table just laugh which strikes me as funny because I am not trying to be funny. I then tell them the story of how I found my spirit guide (bear). The story takes about five minutes and now the whole table is laughing, spitting out their food laughing and knee slapping laughing and just pointy laughing which consists of pointing at me and laughing - and I am just telling the story exactly as it happened, I am not trying to be funny. And at that moment I realize that I have a gift for making the serious silly and down right laughable.

So I thought I would create a discussion here in which people could relate stories and other people can laugh at them (and when I say people I mean me and when I say people the second time I mean anybody but me.)

This is my place to practice my silly serious chops. BUt I am all tired out by writing this initial post so I am going to bed. Okay I am really going to bed because my wife just yelled at me to get to bed but I am really tired too. Tired of being yelled at!

Seriously, there is nothing serious about this discussion no matter how many times I use the word serious - if you want serious check out anything written by . . . I can't seem to think of anybody too serious here in CCS, oh well who carres because I know most of you are not reading this part anyway and if you are reading this hoping it will make sense boy are you out of luck - oops the little woman is starting to walk this way - gotta go - more tomorrow.
Ow ! no honey I was not talking on the internet -
wait don't pull that plug

[Lin Neiswender]

Frankie's in trou-ble, Frankie's in trou-ble! No more Internet tonight for YOU mister!

[Maureen]

Great idea, Frank! A place to laugh. A place to take a bad day and realize how funny it was, in retrospect (I think that applies here ...)

Here is a little diddy from my morning:
The TruGreen guy came today to put fertilizer on our lawn. When my husband told me not to let the cats out for an hour (which is funny in itself because they are indoor cats), my 5-year-old asked "Why?"

"Because the man put some stuff on the lawn to make the grass grow," my husband explained.

"Oh," said my daughter. "If the cats got out, then their feet and nails would grow too big."

Looking forward to this discussion ... have a good Monday everyone!

[Lin Neiswender]

Kids- love their explanations for the working of the world!

[Barbara Ann Storrier]

I think I'm gonna like Chicago :)

[Frank]

The problem with names

Or to be more specific, the problem I have with names. I don't remember them, at least not right away.
Her name could be Betty Smith (I apologize to you real Betty Smiths but I had to use somebody's name).
She jumps in front of me and says "remember me ?"
The question is loaded with potential for incorrect answers, but strangely enough I do remember her -
just not her name. In my brain, she is known as crazy lady who likes attention and will bother you all night until you set her upon someone else.
I have not read Emily Post but I am pretty sure it is not proper to refer to this woman by that name. Although I have not tried this out to see why. And I will not do so here.
What I end up doing is this - stalling for time until she says something like Betty, its me Betty from the bank,
and I will pretend that it is all coming back to me - how much fun we had (when of course we did not because if we did have fun I would have remembered you as fun-loving woman who's name is Betty Smith.
But tonight, I have erred - I have not put on my poker face smile and she sees doubt on my puss.
"You don't remember, do you " her face is a mix of hurt and anger. I play the denial card
"Yes, I remember you. Do you still see Rose anymore." The brain has remembered Rose as fun-loving woman who crazy lady who likes attention and will bother you all night until you set her upon someone else follows around
This answer gets me out of that situation unscathed but without knowledge of what this woman's name is - a situation that will haunt me the rest of the night as I spend my time carefully avoiding her until I find someone who does know her and I carefully craft my words to this person concealing my potential embarrassment - Hey, do remember that lady over there, the one in yellow paisley ?
My companion replies "oh yeah the crazy lady who likes attention and will bother you all night until you set her upon someone else follows around. I wonder what her name is ?

[Barbara Ann Storrier]

Ha Ha ... yes, been there with the name thing many times ... I think there's a name for it ???

[Barbara Ann Storrier]

Hope you don't mind me posting another video instead of writing ... just a synchronistic sort of day for me :)

This was a link off of a Talking Heads video that Debb posted in the Random Chat discussion for today!
Beverage warning!

[Frank]

Nothing Serious here. Very Silly - Barb good choice.