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
Comments
Post a Comment