steve kwan user experience designer

Humour journal, entry #3

(February 20th, 2007 - 6:29PM)

I was at the Bread Garden for lunch. I had a cranberry juice, and was sitting down watching video on my iPod. I'd shaken my cranberry juice vigorously before I opened it, and had taken a few sips. I put it down, and a few moments later I picked it up again. I'd forgotten that I'd already opened the juice, so I picked it up and shook it vigorously. This resulted in red cranberry juice spraying all over myself and the floor. At the time I didn't find this particularly funny, but in retrospect it must have at least been funny to the other people in the Bread Garden.

I'm not sure why I found this funny. It was really a mess. But once I envisioned it from someone else's perspective, I realized it must have been funny. If there's a lesson here, it's that people don't often laugh at their own misfortune, but they do laugh at others'. If you view your own misfortune from someone else's point of view, it may seem more humorous.