I think that I am a pretty good writer, overall. I just wish that I could 'write funny'. Do you know what I mean? One of my FAVORITE authors, David Sedaris, is so funny in his writing that he has me laughing out loud and practically crying during every story of his that I read. How does one do that? I need to figure it out! Below is an attempt at writing funny.

Picture it. Sunny day. Mid morning. Semi-busy gas station. A young woman goes inside to pay for her gas. As she is coming out of the store you see her foot bend the wrong way. The next thing you know, she's on the ground. She quickly picks herself up and continues on her way, with a bit of a red face. You don't say anything, don't even ask if she is okay, but she knows you saw her. Now, that girl was me. I was mortified as I opened my eyes and realized I was on my knees on the dirty ground of the gas station. Keep in mind, I was literally four feet away from the closest car to me and the woman did not even say anything. Which, I can't lie, I was partly grateful for, but still, SOMETHING could have been said! As I was walking back to my car, trying not to limp and wondering how red my face actually was, I kept imagining all the people inside seeing me fall and laughing. I mean, who hasn't laughed when they see someone fall? I know I have!

And as I was at the same gas station this weekend, I was reminded of this incident and had to laugh. I think that most people have places where they saw something funny or learned something or helped someone. I have places that I have fallen. I have fallen at said gas station, in the credit union parking lot one slippery winter day (and had to be helped up because I could not do it on my own. I remember some girl asking me if I was okay that day and if I needed help and I said 'No, I'm fine. I'm just going to crawl to my car and be on my way!), in high school all of the time in front of all the wrong people, and at work multiple times. Pretty much, you take me somewhere, I can tell you where and how I fell down. And I don't even think it's because I'm a klutz, I just happen to like checking out the ground every once in a while!