There is a scene in the 1981 movie Arthur where he is sitting quietly in the back of his limo, then suddenly says, “Oh!”, throws back his head and begins laughing hysterically. His lady friend asks what’s so funny, to which he replies,"I sometimes just think funny things."
Sometimes if there isn’t enough laughter in my day, I’ll conjure up a humorous memory and make like Arthur. For instance, the other day I was remembering one very cold winter day on the IU campus when my friend and I came upon a dead squirrel. I picked up its stiff form in my gloved hands and carefully positioned it, in an active pose, in the crook of a tree. That poor thing remained there “running up the tree” until the spring thaw, which gave me the giggles every time I walked by.
No comments:
Post a Comment