We've all seen it. We all think it's funny. I don't care who you are, when someone slips and falls, it's funny. Often times hilarious.
It's winter now. People fall more. That's really the only good thing about winter.
I was lucky enough to witness someone slip the other day.
I was walking to class. Maybe I was walking home. I don't remember, but I guess it doesn't really matter where I was going. I was walking alone. Not surprising since I have no friends.
I was just walking along, looking at people as I sometimes do. It's probably creepy, but I don't care. I spotted a group of three just ahead of me, one guy, two girls. I was jealous. They were probably friends. They all had someplace to go and they were doing it together. I had someplace to go and I was alone. I could have cried.
I almost did start crying. Before I could it happened. One of the girls just fell. Not just any fall. The best kind of fall there is. The hands in the pocket fall. It was made even better by the fact that the two she was walking with didn't even notice. They walked at least ten feet before they noticed their walking partner was no longer with them.
The whole scene was hilarious. I wanted to laugh. I couldn't. I didn't want to look like a dick. I held my laughter in.
There is a problem when you hold laughter in. It always comes out. It doesn't come out as a normal laugh. It's always just some muffled slight chuckle, which in it's self is hilarious. So you laugh at that. You're left laughing at yourself trying not to laugh and the original hilarious event, in this case the girl slipping on the ice. Only you are still trying to hold your laughter in. The vicious cycle just keeps going. The only way to end it is with one big belly laugh.
That's what happened to me. I didn't want to look like I dick. I did. Not only did I look like a dick, I looked like an idiot for trying to hold my laughter in. I realized you might as well just laugh the first time. Sure you'll like like a dick, but at least you won't look like an idiot too.
After thinking about the merits of not holding laughter in I realized something. Those people weren't friends. They just happened to be walking together. People can't do that.
They should have to walk alone. People think they are friends when they walk together. Then people walking alone, like me, feel bad. We almost cry, sometimes we do.
The next time you walk around campus with someone ask yourself this question. If this person fell would I notice?
If the answer is no, stop walking them. You aren't friends. Stop acting like you have friends. Walk alone with the rest of the friendless.
If the answer is yes, you may continue walking with them. But please be mindful of those around you. Those of us that have no one to walk around with. Don't get to friendly with your friends as you walk. We might cry. We're lonely walking by ourselves. No one notices us, unless we fall.
In case anyone cares Jack Johnson's new cd came out today. I pre-ordered it so long ago, I'd forgotten about it. Then it just started downloading today.
Due to the fact that no one seems to know who Adam Carolla is, I might not ever write that web log. Turns out only half the people I talk to know who he is. And that is after I go on for minutes about him, then it's like "oh yeah, that guy." Only two people have known who he is from his name alone. I don't know why. It's Adam Carolla. Everyone should know who he is. Maybe I should wait till next month when his movie comes out. Then people will know who he is. Hopefully his movie, 'The Hammer', does well. Then someone might let him make 'Pedoph-isle'.
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