Wii Need To Talk

Have you ever made a funny without realizing it? I don't mean being the butt of a joke, but saying something clever and humorous – or what others perceive as such – when you were being serious?

Scene: Saturday afternoon at Brother #2's house during the graduation party for his older kid.

Sister #3: Hey [Farrago], guess what I just bought.

Farrago: You got me… what?

Sister #3: A Wii.

Farrago (after a brief pause): Really….

Sister #4 (laughs and slaps my arm): "Wii-lly!" You and your jokes! You just don't stop!

Farrago: I didn't say that! I said, "Really."

Sister #4: Yeah, right. You're such a nut!

I couldn't even deflect credit for making my sisters chuckle. Quietly I thought to myself that "Wii-lly" was pretty darn funny, something I would've been proud of myself to have come up with so quickly. I wasn't even quick enough in that moment to take credit for it. BUT THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE ME!!

The above scenario reveals two things to me: 1) I have comedically cried "wolf" too many times, and now my sisters never take me seriously; and b) still, 25 years after emerging from adolescence, I mumble.