Some things just aren’t funny anymore
I got home from work tonight, fed the dogs, cleaned the kitchen, and sat down to read blogs and ice my back and shoulder, the 2 most urgent pains at the moment. I found I had an e-mail from my mom, some "Cute elderly humor." 7 jokes, 3 of them regarding the death of a spouse, with a real "good riddance" tone to the jokes. Ah yes. Very cute.
I’m pretty sure these jokes are only funny to people who have not lived through the death of their true love. I know that some people are probably glad to be free of whomever it was they chose, having found over the years that they made a mistake. But I am not one of them, and jokes like that are not funny to me; they wouldn’t have been before, and absolutely not now. Of course, my mom would not know that, nor do I care to enlighten her. I’ll just let it pass. But it makes you think about so many things that people say and do that are supposedly funny. How many times do people forward something to everyone in their e-mail address book, not even thinking about how it would affect the recipient?