Do people respond to you seriously when you are kidding?

What happened to Stitch?

I'm very careful about kidding at work. It can come back to haunt you, months later - as a deliberate misunderstanding.

After 30 years I've learned to be very, very careful what I say to Mr. Noddy's side of the family.

I agree Roger - work is a little different.

Stitch is out. I feel the mean Queen fits my personality a bit more. I am not so cute and furry, but more beautiful and evil.

I have more of my jokes misunderstood than laughed at. I accept the challenge and tell even more.

My friends know I am a complete smartass so they automatically assume I am kidding but to break the ice at a customers house I will ask for scotch if they offer something to drink. Most of the time they just laugh but I have had some customers actually go to get some. Unfortunately I have to turn it down although one time a customer went out and bought me a bottle as a tip.

I was one of those people who used to respond seriously. I could be taken in so easily. In fact, at one job that I had there was a guy who used to take sadistic delight in telling me something, getting me all in a dither, and then laughing his ass off, when I realized that I had been "taken".

It took me a long time, and many years, to minimize my tendency to take people literally......................I am lots better at it, but I still get caught sometimes!

I just realized - now I will never be taken seriously! I do ask lots of "real serious" questions. It is just that people don't always understand or perhaps appreciate my sense of humor.

I once wrote an essay in high school that the teacher responded - "If this is supposed to be a sarcasm, it is very good, if not you need serious help." It was sarcasm.

When I was 18, riding in my grandfather's pick up truck, along with my oldest brother, we sat at the intersection of a busy highway. "Is it clear?" he asked. "Sure; go ahead," we both asured him. Once we got in the flow of traffic and were safe, I said, "Wait. You'll never make it. Go back and start over." Which nearly caused us to have a wreck. I never used that particular joke again.

I am so lucky in that I miss any and all sense of humor. This, in turn, makes people realize that no matter what garbage comes out of my mouth, they know I'm
a) Either talking out of my hiney or
b) Trying to give sensible information
But they also know
c) I'm very very serious.

Naj.

god edgar, you sound like my husband, he does stuff like that all the time. Whenever he starts to tell me a story, I'll stop him and say..."OK, if this going to be for real, or is it a joke?" I think it's his tone, very dry, very deadpan.


Linkat Baby! I think we must have been separated at birth! Sure I have my serious side, but even then....life's too short. I think most of the regulars here know I'm joking, but sometimes, with newcomers, they'll respond all serious when I ask something totally off the cuff...Actually, there's a couple/3 people on A2K that just have a serious outlook and I realize not to be too brazen. Or sometimes when someone doesn't "get it" I'll wheedle in even more.

In general though both here and on the street, if someone gotten to know me well enough to know I'm kidding, and they act like that's somehow inappropriate, screw 'em. There was a time when I would tone down my act because of disapproving glances, then I realized...I don't even want those peoples approval anyway.....so PFFFFFFTTTTTT.

roger, whatever it is you do, I could never work there. I'd either quit or be fired.

Naj - don't quite understand you....are you saying you don't kid around/have a sense of humor?

Mizz T and her purple nails worries about peoples opinions?

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Yeah - I think it is the delivery I usually give.

I once made a joke to lighten things up on a first date. The poor sap, of course, didn't know my sense of humor and it caused him to be even more nervous. I had to explain that I was joking.

This can also work against you. Once I received this phone call where the caller asked "What are you wearing" in a kind of throating deep whisper. Assuming everyone is a jokster, I figured this was my boyfriend at the time so I went along with him. That is until I asked him what he was doing and he explicitedly told me! I was more upset at the fact that I gave him a free sex call than anything else. I did have to wash my hands immediately afterward.

Yup, that was the general idea. Of course, I was being a tad ironic.

In acutality, I make lots of jokes. But I lack subtlety, so I usually go for blatant sarcasm, which is rarely misunderstood by the people I talk with

Today my nails are "Greece Blue Me Away" or as I like to call it...Cyanosis Pshycosis.



Now, how can anyone wearing this be serious?

I ask you.

Love the polish color!

I used to have a favorite blue from OPI. It looked like denim - was my favorite. Unfortunately I can't find it.

I thought this was going to be "Just some big dog."

"Grayhound!"

It happens here all the time. In real life, it is an effect i cultivate . . . example, little girl at McDonald's says HI! in a cheery voice, i respond, "God, i wish i were."

Funny thing there Setanta... I figured you ALWAYS were...