New Motto: Avoid The Humorless Like The Plague

I just don't understand it. There are a few people that I've come across here, in the great Dutch home away from the homeland that is Grand Rapids, that don't appear to have any discernible sense of humor. It's been my misfortune to find these ill-fated individuals amongst the antiques dealers, the school employees, and even my acquaintances around the city. This does not impress me. The worst of it is they make me question my own sense of humor. Because they don't understand sarcasm or irony, I wonder if it's me, if I'm simply being obtuse. Sometimes, I'm perhaps too ambiguous with my snappy sarcasm and witty remarks. Well readers, let me assure you, it's not me. Oh no.

I used to get rather embarrassed when I would say something funny, laugh, and they didn't join me. Perhaps I offended? Now, I realize, I shouldn't be embarrassed, they didn't catch on that a joke even was in their presence. They don't realize anything has happened at all as a matter of fact, and they're certainly not going to go around telling people I told a bad joke because they wouldn't know one if it smacked 'em on the ass. I have never in my life had more awkward, stilted, conversations than I have with a truly, humor-less person. I don't recommend it, if it can be avoided. I've been known to literally run the other way to avoid it, this, I do recommend.

Anyway Readers, it's not just the lack of a sense of humor I don't understand, which admittedly is unfathomable, it's that they are alive at all. Humorless = suicide watch. Let's not forget we live in Michigan. Michigan without a sense of humor....Really? Michigan? It's bad enough with the snow and cold, then you have the yearly percentage of sunlight, which is some piddly number of like 18%. Now to top it all off is the highest percentage of unemployed, highest percentage of people moving to other states, in the top 5 of home foreclosures, top 5 highest gasoline prices....you get the picture. You've got to have a sense of humor to live here, otherwise you better flush the prescription meds and start letting the legs and under-arms go au naturel.