As was mentioned in this article pertaining to the unusual weather pattern which resulted in a massive winter storm that has been affecting much of the United States and southern Canada, outside it’s cold, misty, and it’s raining — bonus worthless points if you can guess from which song that lyric came without searching the Internet — so I decided to venture out and simply pick up some fast food.
A Spontaneous Bad Joke Gone Harmlessly Wrong
A Burger King restaurant is located near where I am based; so I decided to use the drive-thru window and order two sandwiches for five dollars, as that is a special deal which is currently in effect — quick, easy, and inexpensive.
Ordering was simple; and I was asked to move forward to the second window, which I did after the vehicle in front of mine moved on.
The woman in the restaurant opened the window and said with a smile, “It’s five thirty”, meaning that I owed $5.30 cents inclusive of tax.
“I thought it was close to ten,” I replied — meaning that the time was close to 10:00 in the evening at that time.
“What?” she asked.
“You said that it’s five thirty. I said I thought it was close to ten.”
She stared at me with a blank look on her face.
I said, “Never mind. It was a bad joke. When you said that it’s five thirty, it sounded like you meant that the time was 5:30 in the afternoon; but the time is almost 10:00 right now.”
“Oh…” she replied hesitatingly. “I thought you wanted to upgrade to the meal deal.”
I don’t think she ever completely understood what I was saying or got my joke. I was hoping to get a laugh out of her — you know, to brighten her evening.
Summary
I enjoy making people laugh whenever possible — my sense of humor is spontaneous, deadpan, somewhat twisted, and unpredictable even to me, as my mind constantly races — and anyone who knows me can definitely picture me doing the aforementioned scenario.
I failed miserably this time around — but at least she did smile in the end.
Oh, well — I tried. It’s the thought that counts, I suppose…
Photograph ©2017 by Brian Cohen.
