A Little Standing Up Comedy
Life Is Better If You Don’t Sit On The Certain Negative Pies
“Don’t quit your day job to become a stand-up comedian.”
This phrase has been echoed to me throughout my life, even when I was a kid. I don’t know if people thought I would drop out of middle school to ask people if their sweater was “felt” after I indeed felt it.
Now at my day job, people tell me that regularly when I write little humorous tidbits in our Teams’ chat.
“I just spoke to a financial advisor whose last name was Gold. Didn’t ask them if they wanted to add a precious metals fund to the plan.”
“I just spoke to a client whose last name was Jolly. Boy, they were not living up to that name.”
For stressful situations in most workplaces, doesn’t the phrase “stand-up” comedy take on a whole new meaning? You are standing up to stress and tension with humor and comedy, not sitting down and just taking it.
The same with life, you can stand up to adversity and hardship with humor and fun. When life gives you cow pies, it doesn’t help much to just sit on them.
While we are on the topic of cows, maybe we can remember when farmers get too sleep-deprived in the field and they start to hear cows tell them to “Mooove aside.”
Farm hands will probably attest there is a lot of extra “moooonshine” on late nights.
Okay, enough with that. But speaking of moonshine and bars. Did you hear about the dog who limped into the bar on only three good legs and yelled, “I’m looking for the guy who shot my paw?”
Oh, such a crazy joke full of laughs, you say? How could you say a dog talks?
Maybe the bartender who thought he heard a dog talk had heard too many bar jokes. “So a string walks into a bar…” How many shots of moonshine do you have to drink to see string walk?
I’ve actually heard that retail store clerks have it worse than bartenders because they help customers deal with the hereafter. Shoppers visit the store and wonder “What in heaven’s name they were here after.”
Yeah, I won’t quit my day job just yet.
