Take A Joke You Moron

Once again I'm in trouble. I joked with someone in another office who misunderstood what I said. Now I've been the butt of a joke or two, I've teased and laughed, but never have I done this whole "mid funny shut down." I've met so many people that do this, you're laughing, joking, having a good time, and they misread one thing you say and act like you were never joking with them. All I was doing was joking around with a girl at another office on the phone, her and I were laughing and nothing was a miss. But then, as I said that I hate having to leave my crappy cubicle I said "I know this may involve you having to get out of your chair, but we all have to make sacrifices." The request was to leave a note on someone's computer, but all the jokes were lost in that second. What kind of mentality is it that you have a full mood shift in that short of time. Maybe I'm not normal but if someone offends me while we're joking I don't' take it to heart unless I know there was some spite behind it.

An example of this happened a while ago when I was at one of our other offices where I joke around with the receptionists there. One of the girls walks up to me and says "you really need a girlfriend," not as a joke, not as a punch-line, just to be mean. Now if this had been in a situation where we were joking back and forth I would have replied "are you making an offer?" But this was just spite pure and simple. With my phone call I had no spite, no unintentional spite, I don't even know this other person.

Sometimes the burden of spreading joy is a heavy one, why can't those assholes lighten up?


Exile

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