Boxed Nelson
Got a few stories for this week's one. Here's the more lighthearted ones.

It concerns my brother. Years ago, when I was but a young fluffy little Calamarain, my brother and I used to get the bus home from school. Sometimes it would arrive on time. Sometimes it would be an hour late, it varied massively. Much conversation took place between everyone waiting about anything and everything.

Do you ever have one of those perfect comedy moments? Where even if the joke is tasteless, unfunny or just plain wrong, everyone cracks up anyway? We had one of them. The discussion was on the subject of The Simpsons... and as we got onto the subject of Nelson, what should drive past but a hearse and two black cars following it. And so it was with perfect timing that my brother pointed his stubby little finger towards the road, and proclaimed "HA HA!" in an almost perfect imitation of Nelson Muntz. He hadn't seen the hearse. But then he did, and the expression on his face was awful to behold. And everyone cracked up. Completely. The sheer total *wrongness* of what he'd just done, unintentionally, and the expression on his face just broke the humour barrier. I really, really don't want to think about what those poor people in the cars must have felt/thought, seeing a kid point at their beloved dead relative and then a bunch of other kids laughing their buttocks off.

Still, it's not as bad as what happened over curry last month. My grandmother passed away over Christmas, not unexpected as she'd been terminally ill for a while, but still very sad. Doubly so as she was my last grandparent :( . I should mention I also got the complete Deep Space 9 for Christmas. We were discussing various Christmas events... and I mentioned both of the above. I'm quite sure I'm going to hell because I cracked up and couldn't stop laughing when my friend said "Well, at least they were both boxed sets". It sounds awful I know, but I'd been sad for a while, and a tasteless joke really helped to break through it, and let me put it behind me a bit.
(calamarain just invented dehydrated water, Thu 28 Feb 2008, 14:33, Reply)