What Makes You laugh . . . At Yourself?

[dljbsp]

 

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Edited Friday at 09:40 PM by dljbsp

[dljbsp]

 

 

When I was a kid, I once stood there with my toothbrush in my hand, telling my mother I couldn’t find it. I was convinced someone had walked off with it!

[Tsheppar]

Back in the late 1990s when I was at Wallkill Farms. There was an International Convention ,and the Farm hosted many extra tours with many who could not speak English. Well, at the time I was working in Landscaping. I  was in the front lawn and people would walk by and ask, "Where are the cows ? (But they would not say those words) They would gesture and make sounds Mooos, Donde esta las Vacas-  Mooos- Moooooo?

 ( Where are the cows ) 

 I would reply . Ohhh the Moooos ! Yes yes Moos are up road, and point the direction. 

 A little while later another tour group would come by...

"Ou' sont les veches ?"   I would look confused.  They would reply  Mooo, Les Veches ,  Moo? Ohhhh the cows! Mooos! YES yes ..okay Mooos are up road. And I would point. 

 Back to my hedge trimming I would go. A little while later another tour group came by. They asked me , Hello brother. Where are the cows ? 

 

I said, Ohhhh the Mooos ! Mooos are up road . And made a gesture with my fingers to walk in that direction. Mooos over there - Moos

 They looked at me like  maybe I was  retarted. It was then I  realized, they had asked me in perfect English-

And I had replied in Animals Sounds. 

Edited Saturday at 04:57 AM by Tsheppar

[Dolce vita]

Four or five years ago, at the dentist's. Lying in the chair, the curing lamp in my eyes, I wait for instructions.

"Open your mouth."
"You're not going to hurt me, Doctor?"
"No, come on. Move your jaw."
"The jaw?"
"Yes, please."
I look at him, my eyes narrowed because of the lamp, and ask, "Which one?"
"What? Which one? Only one is movable."

 

In my  whole life, I'd never realized I had one fixed jaw and one movable. I kept saying, "Oh, My! I only have one jaw that moves, My my my, I didn't know." Ooooo..."

The dentist, meanwhile, looked at me the way the last group of visitors looked at Tom @Tshepparwhen he said, "Moo, cows, moo."

[Miss Bea]

I listen to music with my phone. Um, and misplace said phone on occasion. I usued my iPad, “Find my”. I could hear my phone going off, and just could not find it. Eventually I found it, in my back pocket! I was carrying it around, looking for it. 
Humbling.

[Tortuga]

11 hours ago, Tsheppar said:

I said, Ohhhh the Mooos ! Mooos are up road . And made a gesture with my fingers to walk in that direction. Mooos over there - Moos

 They looked at me like  maybe I was  retarted. It was then I  realized, they had asked me in perfect English-

And I had replied in Animals Sounds. 

One of my nephews called horses 'dah-dahs" when he was a baby, then one day he saw a cow and called it a 'moo dah-dah'. It's become a family nickname for cows ever since. Recently I was out in service with several sisters in the car and as we passed a herd of cows in the field I told my wife to look at all the 'moo dah-dah's'. The sisters looked at me as if I was crazy. 

[LeolaRootStew]

9 hours ago, Tortuga said:

One of my nephews called horses 'dah-dahs" when he was a baby, then one day he saw a cow and called it a 'moo dah-dah'. It's become a family nickname for cows ever since. Recently I was out in service with several sisters in the car and as we passed a herd of cows in the field I told my wife to look at all the 'moo dah-dah's'. The sisters looked at me as if I was crazy. 

 

I do something similar. Whenever we pass cows I say,

 

"Look, moo-cows."

"What are moo-cows?"

"Cows that say moo."

"Don't all cows say moo?"

"Yes. That's why they're called moo-cows."

 

I also call wild turkeys "turkles" for no apparent reason.

[Tsheppar]

@LeolaRootStew Yew bee Cray Cray Gerl.  Leola Roo Stooo. Welp, im now calling wild turkeys Turkles.😄

It has been decided. And for some crazy reason this gif from this dumb movie comes to my mind....

 

[grain of mustard]

When I was a child, I always went to the supermarket by bike because of the long distance. I did some shopping, stood in line at the checkout, and after paying, I walked home. 

[Ludwika]

I pulled into the garage, the attendant filled up with petrol, I hopped out and paid, and discovered my car wouldn't go. So the attendant told me to pop up the bonnet, he was looking at the engine, said "put your foot on the accelerator", I did and said "see, nothing!" Then I suddenly realized I'd forgotten to turn it on! I slunk out of there feeling a right idiot! 🤣

[just1-4all]

I really have to think hard on this! I guess that's a sign that I take myself too seriously?

 

But the topic reminds me of a plaque I used to have hanging on the wall in the kitchen

of one of the apartments I rented; it went something like:

 

Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves

For then shall they never cease to be amused

 

Note: With the internet there's no excuse misquoting a good quote, it will exist in the 'digital information cloud', but I wanted to take a try at what I could remember. 🙂

 

 

[LeolaRootStew]

During end-of-year testing at my high school I was very tired after hours of exams. One of my teachers asked me to get the librarian to photocopy some pages for her and the librarian said it would cost 40 cents. With tears of gratitude glistening in my eyes I proudly shouted, "That's perfect! I have two dimes!" and I slammed them on the counter with a fatigued laugh and a near-maniacal smile. She looked at me for a long time, took the dimes, and photocopied the paper.

 

Bless her.

 

Spoiler

In my head I reasoned that 2 dimes cost 20 cents. 20 cents x2 is 40 cents. It took me several hours to realize my mistake.

 

[dljbsp]

3 hours ago, grain of mustard said:

When I was a child, I always went to the supermarket by bike because of the long distance. I did some shopping, stood in line at the checkout, and after paying, I walked home. 

I can relate—I’ve lost track more than once at the drive-thru. A few times I’ve placed my order, paid for it, and then just driven away without the food.

[BlaqueCalalilly]

19 hours ago, Tsheppar said:

@LeolaRootStew Yew bee Cray Cray Gerl.  Leola Roo Stooo. Welp, im now calling wild turkeys Turkles.😄

It has been decided. And for some crazy reason this gif from this dumb movie comes to my mind....

 

I find this gif very funny 🤣

[BlaqueCalalilly]

This makes me laugh...it happens quite a bit nowadays 

[Qapla]

Just today - we were moving our cable and Internet, and I made a long cable to bring the service into the house. I had to put a splitter so I could send the signal to the cable box and the modem. I made a short patch cable to hook to the cable box. After getting the cable box working, I needed to hook up the modem. I started looking for the patch cable for the modem ... I knew I had made one, but I couldn't find it. After looking for several minutes, I finally realized I made ONE and I needed two. The one I had made I put on the cable box. I had forgotten to make the one for the Modem.

 

After I made the second one and got the Internet up and running, I had to laugh at myself ... I felt relieved that both worked and that chased off the feeling of chagrin.

 

[Tortuga]

3 hours ago, LeolaRootStew said:

During end-of-year testing at my high school I was very tired after hours of exams. One of my teachers asked me to get the librarian to photocopy some pages for her and the librarian said it would cost 40 cents. With tears of gratitude glistening in my eyes I proudly shouted, "That's perfect! I have two dimes!" and I slammed them on the counter with a fatigued laugh and a near-maniacal smile. She looked at me for a long time, took the dimes, and photocopied the paper.

 

Bless her.

 

  Reveal hidden contents

In my head I reasoned that 2 dimes cost 20 cents. 20 cents x2 is 40 cents. It took me several hours to realize my mistake.

 

Failed the math exam eh?

[franceml]

A few days after I arrived in Idaho back in 2002, we went out preaching in a very remote territory. There had been a big snowfall over the weekend, so everything was covered in white. It was just beautiful! (I really love the snow.)

As we came to a road leading up a hill, there was a mobile home at the top. We knocked on the door, and a very kind couple welcomed us in. They even offered us some coffee and listened with real interest. We left them some literature and a question to be answered for our next visit. We left their home just glowing with joy and excitement!

When the time came to go back for the return visit, as we got close to the area, my brother asked me for the directions I had written down so we could find the house again. So I confidently told him:

“After we pass the black cows on the right side, we’ll turn left, and the house will be about a hundred meters infront of us”

Well, my brother and the others just burst out laughing. They laughed so hard their stomachs hurt, and I couldn’t understand what was so funny.

Finally, they said:

“My dear sister, cows don’t stay in the same place! They move around all the time!”

[LeolaRootStew]

8 hours ago, Tortuga said:

Failed the math exam eh?

 

I got all A's