I’m glad that I have a sense of humor….
Wow, it's been a week of things that crack me up. I think I'm going to bullet point the highlights. I love my bullet points!


  • As you know, I create e-learning (web-based training) for a large organization. Part of my job is to report on participation numbers, results, etc. I receive a report listing all of my courses, who was enrolled, and who enrolled them.

    I almost fell on the floor laughing when I saw this pop up in my report:
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    Someone's manager tried to enroll them into a course for 'simple' lenders. Of course no such course exists, although now that I think about it- maybe it should. And that manager should enroll. cheese

  • Before I left for Italy, my manager forwarded a newsletter-type of communication from our new vendor to me. I wanted to be on the mailing list going forward, so I forwarded the email to the original sender asking to be added to their mailing list.

    This week (a month later, mind you....) I received an email from the vendor's help desk. They assigned this 'issue' a ticket number (meaning they charged my department for their 'help') with this in the body of the email:
    Hello [RisibleGirl],

    Regarding your request:
    Would like to be added to the mailing list for the e-bulletins.

    [Solution: You may email [name of an employee at my company] at [his email address] and request to be added to the list.]

    Please also be advised that this request will now be closed. If you have any other questions regarding this issue, please do not hesitate to contact us referencing the number above and we'll either re-open the request or create a new one for you.

    ONE MONTH and $14.00 for them to tell me to do what I've already done. The idea that they put the 'solution' in brackets made it even MORE funny to me.

    ::shakes head::

  • Yesterday on the train, I saw a man that appeared to be in his forties wearing a livestrong band on each wrist. Part of me expected him to clap the two bracelets together and say SHAZAM!, turning him into a Lance Armstrong superhero. The rest of me assumed that maybe he wore two bracelets in an effort to cancel out (double, even!) the effects of the cigarette he lit up as he got off the train.

  • I was interested in the number of comments I received to my "I'm an Introvert"post with the fact that most of you are also introverts. I've always suspected that if you're a blogger/writer/journaler (is that a word?), that you're an introvert. The thought behind this is that most bloggers (with the exception of political/entertainment/etc. bloggers) are introspective. Y'all have just proved my theory.

So entertain me. What have you seen this week that cracked you up?

RisibleGirl was blabbing on about another adventure on 05/30 at 06:30 PM
  

Annieofbluegables wrote:

You asked what cracked me up this week. I found a site with this article about the Discomforts of Home. I loved the closing comments.

RisibleGirl replied:
WOW, is about all I can say about those apartments. Holy cow! They remind me of a Dr. Seuss book.

Wow... I had to go look again. WOW.



  

Frances wrote:

Okay this right up there with the cigarette guy.
I have a friend whose cocktail hour begins at noon and ends at breakfast, is out every night of the week, and generally running on empty. Yet when I suggest IHOP for lunch says (seriously) that she can't believe how bad she is being having pancakes with syrup!

And I have a question - How did you set uo the nifty member thing on your blog?

Would love any tips you can spare.

Stay awesome,
Frances

RisibleGirl replied:
Pancakes with syrup? GASP!!!

As for the member thingee- click on the "join this community" link and follow the instructions. smile




  

K1 wrote:

Let's see... This week, one of our staff found a small young pigeon outside the building, brought it in, and was showing it when it latched onto her chin and would not let go.

It was hysterical to see. After about two minutes, it freed its captor, flew to the door, left a deposit, and proudly strutted out of the building, then calmly flew back into the tree.

The whole episode was a knee slapper.

RisibleGirl replied:
OK cuz... you have the most interesting workplace. That's for sure. Now, I have to wonder why someone would bring a bird into the building in the first place. And, does she have a Jennifer Aniston chin now?




  

Annie wrote:

Oh... this past weekend my son graduated from Cornell Univ., and the members of the veterinary school 'blew up' (filled with air?)surgical gloves to wave over their heads during the graduation ceremony. At first it looked like they were waving those foam arms one sees at a ball game, but then we realized WHAT they had. Well, these were the longgg armed gloves used while one has their arm elbow deep in, well, you get the picture. (Hey, I'm a city girl; I didn't know surgical gloves came in 'extra long'). It was pretty darn funny.

And I DO have a picture of the group 'wave', but can't find your email address.
hugs
Annie

RisibleGirl replied:
Sounds similar to my high school graduation- we had a lot of floating things- but have to admit that long-armed surgical gloves were not part of the scenery. Too funny!

Good point, I should put that on my blog. It's risiblegir(at)gmail(dot)com. I can't wait to see the picture!





  

shopper wrote:

I'm always seeing things that crack me up but right now my mind is blank. I remember the Shazaam thing. I'm gypsylike and wear too many things on my wrists and feel like that often.

RisibleGirl replied:
BER and I do that with our wedding rings sometimes (they both have emeralds and diamonds). Of course, it's a joke and he really doesn't want to do it, but I make him.

What a sport.



  

Comfort Addict wrote:

Well, our upper management put on a "town hall" the other day where the showed new commercials for our products. It cracks me up the they keep finding new ways to offend women and gay people. Oh yeah, I also lose it when they try to act sincere.

RisibleGirl replied:
I year ya. I love our town halls too for the very same reason as you. I'm always interested to see what they'll come up with next.

::rolls eyes at 'the man'::




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