Absolutely agreeing with you. I would never call myself funny. If anyone else wants to call me funny, sure, I'm okay with that. So while I don't wish to call myself funny, some call me a hilarious person.
The thing is, the times I'm the funniest are the times when I'm totally serious, but something I say or do comes out the wrong way. I was riding a van with members of my church when I noticed some store called "Custom Sounds" and made some comment about what it meant, which everyone in the whole car found hilarious and I had no idea why they were laughing. Or last week in Mexico, when we were at a restaurant I told the other people to hurry and grab the steak before it's all gone, but I ended up the only person taking any steak in the first place, which everyone found, once again, hilarous. And I tried to explain my enjoyment of the wind to a couple guys in my youth group, and they busted out laughing, saying "that was so totally random", even though our conversation had naturally tilted that way anyway.
Sigh. I realize I'm funnier in my church than I am at school, perhaps because at school I'm surrounded by people who are weirder than I am, and people at my church are (for the most part) normal.
So I learned to stop trying to be funny,and just be Stephen Luke Gregoire. Apparently he's hilarious.
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