El Paso has Zero Sense of Humor

I haven't been promoting anything I write on Newspaper Tree here on this blog in a while.  I hate shameless self promotion.  I think it creates a false sense of interest in a person's efforts.  I measure my success by the clicks. By the people who took the time to find my writings on their own.

I wrote that first paragraph so I could talk about my latest effort on NPT and you wouldn't think I was just mentioning it so you'd go read it.  I'm really mentioning it because the readers of NPT are letting me down.  They don't get it.

If you look at the comments to my funny stories you'll be amazed by the amount of people who just do not understand that I'm being funny.  That I'm not writing to change the world, but to make a few of you sick people like me laugh.  Why is it so hard for some folks to understand that?

Why so serious?  We have got our collective panties in a wad.  We should be having a blast here!  We're at the bottom and up is the only direction we can go.  Let's lighten up a little bit.

And I'm not taking a shot at Rich Wright's piece here. It was awesome and timely.  It also had the, "we're screwed, might as well enjoy ourselves tonight" theme I'm preaching here.

It didn't help that my latest letter dropped right when the crazy lady from ACHE was announcing temper tantrum and former Mayor Tilney wrote a nice piece about a dead friend.  Maybe people just weren't in the mood to do the one thing that feels better than any drug  - laugh.

I don't think we have a brain drain here, I think people leave because we're so damn serious all the time.  Lighten up!

Comments

[KC]

LOL. Hahahahahah! I am SOOOO stupid!

I never got you man! You were being so funny with your IDIOTIC (your word, not mine) post on the IDIOCY of relegating truckers to all lanes but that one on the left!

And you have a tip jar! That engineering job just isn't cutting it these days, I guess.

Ho hum.