The Ice Cream Truck's Got A New Tune!

The ice cream truck's got a new tune. Now, you may not find this very exciting, but I do. I realize that by July I'll be sick of it but for now it's very nice to hear something different than what we heard all last summer. I don't know the tune, but the first few notes make it sound like it's going to be the hymn "It Is Well With My Soul" but then a dog barks and it turns into something else. Then a chicken squawks and a horn honks - so ya. It's going to annoy me later but for now, I'll take it!

Today I met Leo the Pug. He was a very sweet doggy with very red buggy eyes. And his ears were taped because, his owner said, Leo was going to be in a Show this weekend and they need to lay right. I said I thought that was much kinder than a curling iron.

Leo didn't laugh at that one. Neither did his owner.

Humor is like that. You throw stuff out. Sometimes it's a winner and sometimes you go crawl under the rug. But for someone like me, getting the good laughs is worth the occasional flop.

And it occurred to me recently that sharing our stories is like that too. Sometimes you tell things about yourself and it connects with the other person and you click. Other times you get the blank stare or the downward gaze/uncomfortable scootch in the chair/throat clearing. And again - it's a gamble, but getting the good clicks is worth the occasional weirdness.

Hey, wouldn't it be nice to be able to hand a humor/conversational comfort zone questionnaire to folks so that you would know what topics to steer clear of?