As far as I can tell this weekend calls for some fun, and this week's #weekend-engagement suggests a few themes that may generate a few laughs. Anyone who remembers funny happenings can write in by following the guide HERE!
I am one of those people who believe that life is not life without music and humor. A sense of humor!
This makes me want to share a few moments that respond to the suggestion made by @galenkp, namely:
What is the funniest thing you've personally done in real life? Explain the action and situation and any repercussions from it in a post of 300+ words and use photos you personally took where possible.
Although I know there have been many funny moments in my life something prevents me from telling them.
My memory!
I don't remember most of them but luckily for me, I have a true story I can tell here that I remember very clearly even though it's been decades since it happened.
My office mate and the agricultural harvest
In order for you to understand the comedy of the situation I have to say something about the time and place where this "funniest thing" happened...
The 1980s in Romania. Authoritarian communist regime. I was working in a factory that made poles to support electric cables. I was working in an office with four other colleagues.
The authoritarian communist regime meant many things but I want to talk about one aspect. Agricultural harvest. Romania is a country with large agricultural areas, therefore with large harvests. In order not to lose those harvests, they were harvested not only by the agricultural workers, because they would not have been able to harvest everything, but also by the soldiers in the army, the pupils and students, and the workers in the factories. Forced to work without pay. In the communist press, there were daily articles about the dedication of the people who harvested and how much was harvested, and how much remained to be harvested...
The funniest thing that I remember I did.
At work, in the office, we had a lot of free time and we were often bored.
It was a saying among people at the time:
They pretend to pay us... we pretend to work!
The only thing that daily saved us from boredom was reading the press, and when I say press I mean the only newspaper we could have, the newspaper of the Romanian Communist Party, called Scanteia (the spark). The factory, and every institution in the country, were obliged to subscribe to this newspaper. Every day we received several copies of the newspaper.
One of our colleagues used to "steal the start", i.e. he would take the paper first and read it while the rest of us were still bored. What's more, our colleague would also tell us what he was reading, taking away the pleasure of discovering something interesting for ourselves... This was annoying and I took the initiative to make a "surprise" to our colleague.
One morning I took an old newspaper from the archive and changed the date to the current date of that day (I changed the date by cutting out from that day's newspaper all the places where the date appeared and pasted them in the old newspaper). I then put the old newspaper on my colleague's desk but with the date of that day...
All this happened in winter, in the middle of January, when the whole country was covered with snow, a lot of snow.
When he entered the office, our colleague took the newspaper and started reading..., the rest of us pretended to work but followed his reactions carefully.
Our colleague read, read, and then looked perplexed at the date of the newspaper, then couldn't resist any longer and exclaimed...
"These bastards haven't finished harvesting the corn yet!!!"
At that moment we all burst out laughing and he understood that he had been tricked.
The newspaper we had altered was from September and the main headline on the front page looked something like this...
"Tens of thousands of hectares of corn still unharvested"
The repercussions of this event were these...
All our colleagues in the factory heard the story and every time they met our office mate they would ask him, regardless of the season, if the corn harvest was over!
Our office mate never (almost never) picked up the newspaper to be the first to read it!
This is the funniest thing I can remember, but even funny things have a sad side. Since writing this story I've been trying to remember my colleague's name. I can't, even though we worked together for many years.
I'm sorry (I don't know if for him or for me)!
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