Johnny Seriously
Aug. 2nd, 2002 12:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
judecorpWith very few exceptions, I'm not taken seriously. I don't know if it's because I'm funny, or because I'm a smartass, or because I'm younger-looking/younger-acting. I just know that there are only a handful of people who interact with me in a serious manner. How do I always end up in friendships or other relationships where I'm constantly the butt of some stupid joke? This has happened with friends, with bosses and coworkers, and with other people.
Don't get me wrong, I like to joke around and have fun. I'm easy-going, like to laugh, and am good for a prank. But there are times when I really like to be taken seriously. When I say, "I'm concerned about X, so can you do this for me?" I would kind of like to be honored for that. Every once in a while I would like to be interacted with without jokes or pranks or stunts. It leaves me leery to ever expose anything honest about myself or develop new relationships.
I'm sure I'd die if I was taken completely seriously all the time, too. I'd really like a happy medium, probably heavier on the fun side, but definitely somewhere between the poles. If I say something seriously, don't fuck with me, please. Don't assume that I want to deal with pranks over and over, especially when I've asked if I'm being pranked more than two times in a ten-minute period.
And for the love of all that is good and holy, please don't /ever/ put dirty food dishes or other food trash under my furniture when I'm paranoid about seeing another water bug and I've admitted that to you. Would you like it if I stuck a dirty, saucy piece of trash in your house somewhere? Grossness. Why would someone do that? Yuck. Yuck.
America is the place where the kids got twisted minds bent on self-destruction.
Don't get me wrong, I like to joke around and have fun. I'm easy-going, like to laugh, and am good for a prank. But there are times when I really like to be taken seriously. When I say, "I'm concerned about X, so can you do this for me?" I would kind of like to be honored for that. Every once in a while I would like to be interacted with without jokes or pranks or stunts. It leaves me leery to ever expose anything honest about myself or develop new relationships.
I'm sure I'd die if I was taken completely seriously all the time, too. I'd really like a happy medium, probably heavier on the fun side, but definitely somewhere between the poles. If I say something seriously, don't fuck with me, please. Don't assume that I want to deal with pranks over and over, especially when I've asked if I'm being pranked more than two times in a ten-minute period.
And for the love of all that is good and holy, please don't /ever/ put dirty food dishes or other food trash under my furniture when I'm paranoid about seeing another water bug and I've admitted that to you. Would you like it if I stuck a dirty, saucy piece of trash in your house somewhere? Grossness. Why would someone do that? Yuck. Yuck.
America is the place where the kids got twisted minds bent on self-destruction.
