Dotty Parker

making me laugh

I've rediscovered my ability to make myself laugh. Just from thinking about something silly from the past.

For example, I wrote here once about an email from BellyRub about how his dog Charly liked to play with socks that had meat in the toe. But BellyRub wrote something like, "Charly likes to play with socks that have treats in them. Especially meats."

For whatever reason, that he made meat plural still makes me laugh. So when I see the word "meats" it makes me smile and laugh to myself.

And then there's the story he told about the guy who was flirting with a woman on the bus. The fellow got up to leave and was trying to be cool, but the bus stopped suddenly so the guy ended up straddling the arm rest and feeling not as manly as he had before. The thing about this story is the way that BellyRub tells it. He shows it in slow motion and at the moment of impact he makes his lips flap in slow motion. The way Barney's on the Simpsons do when he belches. And that makes me laugh, too.

There was the time in chemistry class where the class switched its seating. There were five rows and we mirrored the seating chart so that the middle row stayed the same. When our teacher came in he said, "Andy, get back in your seat."

Andy looked innocently up at the teacher (and he was really good at that) and said, "But Tom's in my seat!"

The teacher said, "Tom..." pause pause, he was a slow thinker "what the hell..." pause pause and then an amused and exasperated, "get back in your seats!"

I think I like this one because I orchestrated it. And the way Andy said, "But Tom's in my seat!" Oh my. I'm laughing writing this. Happily, no one's listening...right?

Posted by dotty at June 2, 2005 11:14 PM