This is a possible TMI thing. People who don’t want to read about women’s health problems and so on should skip it. I haven’t found out how to do a spoiler.
The thing about the blood on my underclothes. I was taking off my work clothes when I saw a spot of blood on my slip. It was the upper part of the slip that fits over the bra. My bra had blood on it too, just a little. Sure enough, I found blood seeping out of my nipple. It wasn’t a lot of blood, so I decided to wait until Monday morning to call the doctor. But that whole weekend was a mess – it really threw me for a loop, seeing blood where it shouldn’t be.
At the time I was in my early 40s and just beginning menopause. After several appointments I had exploratory surgery, which found no tumor and no cancer. It happened again several years later at the end of my menopause, and again the surgery revealed nothing.
Interestingly enough, my finding blood and going to the doctor prompted my boss to go to his doctor when he found blood (not in the same place), and his did turn out to be cancer. It was caught early enough and he has not had a re-occurrence.
Now I’m going to go find out how to put a spoiler on a message.
I think my daughter might turn out this way. She’s only three, but she hates when we do any kind of joke on her. We’ll hide things, or just do other playful things and then gets mad. When we tell her it was a joke she starts to cry. The one year old on the other hand plays jokes on us! She likes to “give” us things then take them away before we take them.
I think last night though she was laughing at something on TV, so maybe she’s not that bad.
I think that my best friend is one of these people. I think that he has three standard jokes that he tells. I can’t remember any more than that from our 30 years of acquaintance, and I recall those several, several times. I don’t think he really, really gets that they are supposed to be humorous. I think that he knows that there is something out there that is called humor, and that some people like it, and he is engaging in it when he plugs-and-plays these little non-true anecdotes, but if he were to be forced to construct a joke, even a bland, tepid one, or engage in irony, he would be at a loss. He is friendly, and will smile when pleased, but I’ve never heard him laugh that I can recall.
I have to wonder about the humor-impaired telling jokes. I would think that since they don’t get why the joke is funny, they might completely screw it up, then wonder why they’re not getting laughs.
The other day I shot an elephant who was wearing my pyjamas. I’m not sure why he was wearing my pyjamas.
Sorry, we don’t take the oldest kids stuff, the younger one will bring us something, hand it to us, then take it away and start giggling. The oldest one hates just about any kind of practical joke, though off the top of my head can’t think of any. She’s very serious for a three year old.
Actually I can think of one thing she hates, if she’s pretending she’s someone else, then we’ll say we’re a different person she gets mad and says, “NO, you’re daddy!”. So she likes to pretend, but doesn’t like it if we do.
I had a principal forbid the entire staff from using humor in the classroom. Her rationale was that ALL humor is at the expense of someone else. She was a horrible communicator, too. She was completely emotionless, and as a leader she was completely inept and non-functioning.
Not long after she left (thrown out, basically), we learned she had Asperger’s. If she had only told everyone at first, I imagine things might have turned out very differently. Still, she had no business being a principal. (Not a judgment about Asperger’s…I mean her specifically.)
Our school counselor is completely devoid of humor. I’ve been meaning to post asking if people know others like her. And I’m not being mean. She genuinely has no sense of humor. The only way she knows how she is supposed to feel is by what she reads in books. She is perpetually offended and…politically correct. She’s a Nazi about being PC. Again, it is very difficult to have someone in this position at a school. A conversation with her is absolutely pointless. She doesn’t understand social cues, and therefore assumes that everything and everyone is out to get her.
I have number 2. But it’s because certain ways of telling a joke are inherently funny. Heck, some jokes are only funny if they are told with certain inflections of the voice; others depend on the timing of delivery.
I’m also not a great joke-teller, because it seems to take me time to convert my pithy observations into words. So my timing’s off. It works for me online, though. Though I still can’t just make up a joke on command; I have to be in a funny mood. It helps if I have someone to riff off of…
ETA: What’s weird is I’ve had friends tell me they liked me because I tend not to take the world so seriously…