You Think You're Funny...But You Are Not!!!

Good Late Friday Evening....

So I had a very sobering experience this evening...It appears...after years of being told that I am funny..that it has all been a LIE....

You see...tonight...I coached my volleyball team....The Spikers..consisting of 10....Eleven and Twelve year old girls...Tonight we were walloped by the opposing group of 10-12 year olds...From the get go...my girls were a little flat...a little low energy...like they were attending the wake of one of the members of One Direction...So...In an effort to "lift" their spirits...I decided that Humor would be the perfect coaching tool to get them "fired" up..

You know...a couple of cute quips...age appropriate of course...just to get their little mojos workin...Then it happened...the sobering moment....not even one single laugh...not even a hint of a smile on any of the little faces looking back at me...Instead....I received this look:

 



Crap!!!  Now what?  My humor is my GO TO...my Ace in the Hole...My Wild Card...My Lucky Penny...

NOW...All I had was a group of pre teen girls who just voted me off the island! 

So...we lost BIG TIME...my girls looked like they just lost their best friend..and I left with a severely bruised ego and the realization that I am not nearly as funny as I thought I was...Good Times...Good Times....:)

So I took it on the chin..now I am nursing my bruised ego by trying to be funny here...a place where I can crack jokes and never even know if anyone laughed but truly live in the delusion that ALL of you laughed...and laughed hard!!!!


So after a night of only 2.5 hours sleep...a long work day..a 1.5 hour commute home...and facing the pint sized humor critics... I decided the only sensible thing was to distance myself from all pre-pubescent prejudice and rejoin my world of middle aged hormonal imbalance...hot flashes...and laughing as a means of holding on to our last shred of sanity!!! 

So....I stepped back into my comfort zone...had dinner with Donna....laughed a bit....Met my friend Camille....laughed a little more... and left with a renewed since of hope...and this mantra coursing through my brain!

Gosh Darnit...I AM Funny and People Like Me...Not all people...but SOME people...just not 10 year old volleyball players...But most EVERYONE else thinks I am still funny....

Congrats to my favorite Olympian Kerri Lee Walsh Jennings and her partner April Ross on winning their first 2 matches today at AVP-Santa Barbara and Congrats to the New Boston High School Football Lions...UNDEFEATED...and to the MEN...Wes and Wilson!!!