The Pudding Story

I'm not sure if I've ever told this story on this blog before... but I'm going to talk about this now! This is an actual story too! So this is a real Scribble about my Real Life. Scary! I feel like I never talk about that anymore! 

So when I went to 6th Grade it was a new school for me. It was a Grammar School that I just started in 6th Grade and I went to public school in kindergarden-5th grade... so I was the new kid and the school was a bit different for me. And the group of friends I made were very nice and I'm still friends with most of them today... so that was good. But when I first met them I was sort of known as the girl that laughed a lot. I laughed at the end of every sentence... I don't think I do that anymore- but I'm not sure. I did that pretty much all through high school and some of college. But I laughed a lot... and I had a funny laugh too. I would try to laugh like Karen from Will and Grace because she's my idol... Seriously- as a kid I dreamed of being Karen Walker when I grew up... and I actually think I'm doing a good job at that. 

Anyway... so I would laugh a lot and my friends somehow took that as "Ohhh Shannon will laugh at anything! She'll laugh if you say pudding." So I laughed when they said pudding... and here's the thing... Pudding is not particularly funny or unfunny. I laughed at it because that's what my friends wanted and I liked them... so I made it funny. 

Then flash forward many years later...I'm still friends with most of the same people- and we were all at lunch together and it was brought up. My one friend said "Hey remember when you used to laugh at Pudding." And I said "haha yeah... you know I didn't think that was particularly funny..."

*Glass Shatters* 

"WHAAAAAAAAAAAATTTT?!?!?!?!!?!?! YOU DIDN'T THINK THAT WAS FUNNY????" 

I was pretty shocked that this was the reaction so many years after the fact... and I don't totally understand why they thought I thought pudding was so funny... it's just pudding... I don't really think many people find it that funny. It sounds a little funny... the way it moves is a little funny... but the word itself is nothing to crack up over... I thought that a group of women over the age of 21 would realize I hadn't exactly found it that funny... but they were pretty shocked and they felt a little betrayed. I think everything is okay now-I don't lie at all... but they wanted me to laugh at pudding... so I laughed! lol. 

Anyway I'm not saying don't be yourself just to get others to like you because I don't think the girl that laughed at pudding was someone other than Shannon... it was just a little exaggerated and I was just playing to my audience. So... yeah. 

And I did laugh a lot... and in retrospect now I think Pudding is a little funny... although I don't really laugh out loud when I hear the word. I'll laugh quietly in my own head sometimes when I think of pudding. 

And I don't think that the laughing at pudding is why these people are friends with me. I like to think it's more about me laughing hysterically at pudding for them that made us friends and why we're all still friends today. 

So yeah... I do have some pretty interesting stories with how my friends and I all came to be friends... so I should probably talk about those stories too because... I feel like no one else would have stayed friends with me for with these types of stories... so that's kind of funny. Not that I did anything bad- but it's just stupid stuff like talking about the existence of time and things like that that most people would be like "Nope that's the crazy friend!" 

Byeee! 

-Shannon