My friend Jim is pretty crazy at times. We’ve been friends since 1978 when I met him as a freshman at The Ohio State University. He was the Resident Advisor on my floor and we became great friends. He’s like the big brother I never had. We both have a very peculiar sense of humor and usually end up just laughing like fools at the goofy things we come up with. Two of the three young ladies in the photo are our daughters and the third is the daughter of another close friend. They’ve grown up together and it’s been such fun to watch them grow into mature, young ladies. I think this was shot number 12 that I took trying to get them to sit still and stop laughing at one another (like their dads). And they knew something was up because I kept trying to pose them for the shot.
Jim and I like to practice what we call “Applied Humor.” This is where the joke is for us, but other people are the innocent victims. For example, we were at the zoo with our kids and one of the enclosures has a glass walled section where you can step into the animals area. While we could not see any animals, we stood there pointing up at a tree and talking about how colorful the animal was and how soft the fur looked. Of course there was no animal there, but that didn’t stop a large group of people from gathering around us and looking. While they were looking, we slowly backed out and went on our merry way. I’m sure that someday we are going to be in an assisted living facility and trying to pull practical jokes on the other residents. I think we need to perfect fake applesauce. That would be a scream… gotta work on that.
