steve kwan user experience designer

Humour journal, entry #1

(February 2nd, 2007 - 7:27PM)

I've been taking a BCIT course called Humour Studies - Learning with and about Humour. The funniest part of the course, as you can imagine, is that I paid over $600 to take a course called Humour Studies.

But anyway, one of our assignments is to keep an ongoing journal of things that we've found funny. We have to explain why we found them funny, what we've learned from the experience, etc.

I've decided to post my entries on here, thus inflating my blog content while gaining BCIT credits. So without further ado, here's entry #1!

I was standing behind my co-worker the other day and noticed a sticker on the back of his sweater. It read, "SUPER SWEET." It looked like it had been peeled off a fruit label, and stuck to his sweater during a drunken night out. The poor sticker was extremely worn, and looked like it had been through the wash a few times, so I imagine it had been there for quite a while.

I found this quite amusing, probably for two reasons.

1. "SUPER SWEET" is not the way that people commonly label themselves. And with the exception of a classic excerpt from Dude, Where's My Car?, not many people would put a label like this on their backs. In all fairness, though, this co-worker of mine is pretty sweet. Dude! What's mine say?
2. This incident completely fits my mental stereotype of this co-worker. He's the kind of guy who is completely oblivious to the world around him. I'm not at all surprised that a sticker had been stuck to his sweater for so long without him noticing. I remember one time I asked him if he was going to vote in an upcoming Federal election, and he replied, "There's an election?"

I've learned a few things from this incident. First, this co-worker's friends are jerks. They put a sticker on his back and left it there for months. Second, things are funnier when they match your preconceived notions about people. If this co-worker weren't so oblivious, I probably wouldn't have been so amused about the sticker.

Sorry about the Dude, Where's My Car? reference. Hopefully that will be the last one in this journal.