I love a good play on words. My favorite one currently is this: Say- Rise up lights. Rise up lights. This sounds like a person with an Australian accents saying razor blades. Go ahead. Say it again. And then again. I will wait.
The other day, a man a restaurant said, "No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationary."
Or the one my teacher told me as a child and I didn't understand until years later- A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.
I don't often catch on right away when someone says something funny or uses words as if they alone can quite possibly be punchline. I am not the brightest bulb on the tree. You can see my gears turning, me slowly catching up, and then arriving at a full understanding of what has been said. I am horrible at dinner parties. I will look directly my husband and say, "I don't get it." Or, "What in the actual what are they talking about?" He finds humor in this each and every time. He says the second he sees the corners of my lips turn upwards, he knows that I then get the joke.
I wonder how much I have actually missed over the years? How many jokes I haven't understood and just glossed over or changed the subject? I have a feeling it is a lot.
If you struggle with this also, just know, that you are not alone. Also always remember, that you can tune a bicycle, but you can not tuna fish.
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