Fun With Londoners
Whenever a Londoner tells me about their journey, they will normally tell me the number of their bus or the tube line they took as a part of the story.
Friend: I saw this lady on the way in this morning.
Me: Right.
Friend: I was coming in my normal way on the Number 26 bus.
Me: That’s a great bus.
Friend: And she was reading Belgium Cosmo….
I ALWAYS say “That’s a great bus” or “I love the Circle Line”, because it makes it funny to no one else but me.
I have no idea why I do it. Is it Tourrette’s? Is it Aspergers? OCD? It just sounds fun to say.
You know when you love someone you have little private jokes that make you giggle and no one else thinks they are funny? I have those with myself.
Why not? If you can enjoy music on your own with headphones or sing out loud when you are alone, why not make yourself laugh once in a while.
Doesn’t even have to be funny.
What’s ET short for?
He’s got no legs.
November 16th, 2005 at 5:08 pm
Hello!
Nowt wrong with a little quiet personal giggle.
Your Eric Clapton post still makes me laugh, alone or with friends. It completely blew my cover at work, where I’m *meant* to not be reading blogs…
November 16th, 2005 at 8:42 pm
Glad to be of service. Everyone else, in the absence of a decent archive and a “Rare Funny Moments” section, this is what scares me about Eric Clapton. It has been worrying me for years.
November 18th, 2005 at 5:33 am
I totally have jokes I tell only to myself (or, rather, jokes that are certainly only JOKES to me). And I have OCD. I wonder if you’re on to something.
I’m so stealing your ET joke.