That Joke That Just Isn't Funny

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."

-Robert Frost

UGH, how awkward! Even the word awkward is awkward! My sister came home today, and will probably only BE home for under five days, and within the first half an hour, I made a huge blunder.

Well, perhaps should I explain. My Aspy brain takes everything and dramatizes it about 100,000,000 kilowatts, so this probably wasn't really a huge blunder, but...it was a joke; unfortunately one of those jokes that was sort of like inside to the insider who the joke was supposed to be on. 

And trust me, nothing is ever funny when you find that uncomfortable silence when someone's either trying to figure out the joke, or trying to know whether to label you as 'crazy,' 'slightly off-balance,' or just as someone with a really bad sense of humor.

So my 'joke' was that here was my sister, coming back from a summer college-like camp, and how was I too identify her as being my own flesh and blood? I hardly even noticed her!

To try to discern whether I had an alien impostor or not, I got out a piece of white printer paper, and wrote something along the lines of:

 

Welcome to the Doolittle Family Bathrooms, Inc.

No one other than Katie may operate the uses of this bathroom until you answer this question:

(In complete sentences, please!)

Oops! Your tongue is now a magnet! However will you eat without silverware?

QUESTION: What would you do in this hypothetical situation?

Please write your answer to this question on the back of this sheet with a freshly-sharpened #2 Ticonderoga pencil, and, when done, hand it to Missus Katie for approval.

 

And taped it to my bathroom door, the one I share with my sister if and when she's home for break.

 

Ha! Talk about not being well-received! Granted, it wasn't like insulting to her, or anything, but I was undeniably mortified when it just sort of fell flat...and didn't get picked back up. So, being the person I am, I just squared my shoulders and moved on.

 

Oh, well. Not the end of the world. I hope.