If there is any lesson to learn in this world, it is that big large men should not, under any circumstances, jump in a foam pit. If they do, they will most definitely get stuck. I am an employee at a trampoline park in Watertown, and this is exactly what happened one day while I was working. The trampoline park features a six-foot deep pit filled with foam blocks. One day, a rather large man came to jump on the trampolines with his family and friends. I happened to be monitoring the dodgeball court, which was in direct view of the entire foam pit if I looked to my left side. A fairly new employee was working at the foam pit, and all of a sudden, he came up to me. He looked at me, with a sense of worry in his eyes, and asked me, “What do you …show more content…
There he was, struggling to get out of the foam pit. I thought this was funny, because at first I did not think that the man had any common sense. Obviously, I could not laugh or show any emotion toward the matter, despite wanting to laugh. I kept my eyes on the foam pit, and finally saw the man have success in getting out. In the end, it took about five people to get him out, and it was quite a sight to see. By the time the people helping got this man out of the foam pit, the man was profusely sweating and he had lost both of his socks. Directly after exiting the foam pit, the man came to the dodgeball court, where I was stationed. As he was jumping, I saw the trampoline going down much more than I had ever seen before, and I kept telling myself that if this man fell through the trampoline, I would quit my job. There were many facial expressions I could have made, but I could not allow myself to because as an employee, I had to remain professional.This is where my talent of keeping a straight face in serious situations came into play. Laughing in this situation could be extremely offensive to the man, as well as get me into
An elderly woman came in on her scooter and said she needed help while she was losing consciousness. We had to take her to one of our room immediately and the second she was put in the room she was asked a bunch of questions she couldn’t answer at the time. As I nervously watched another emergency happened down the hall and my mentor had to run to that, emergency, she turned to me and said “You can handle this right? You went through all the training so you should be good!” before I could say anything she closed the door behind her. It was that moment I realized I wasn’t trained on what to do in emergencies.
When there is humor involved people seem to enjoy things way better, the reason for this is that people will
Humor, as a creative effort, has been respected throughout the world, I’m sure, since the beginning of spoken language. There is nothing in the world like conjuring up a joke or some other anecdote that sends a group of people off into a fit of laughter. In fact, throughout time, people have attempted to make humor at least some part of their professional career. Court jesters made the royalty of the castle laugh at his foolish behavior. Playwrights have included humor in their tragic works to provide some comedic relief from all of the terribly sad events. Today is no different. The sheer number of careers available for those interested in making people laugh for a living reflects our society’s great appreciation for novel humor. Comedians, book writers, columnists, actors, television and movie writers, cartoonists, and musicians all attempt to add some laughter to peoples’ lives on a daily basis.
Prior to my experiment, I was truly nervous. This went against my shy, laid-back exterior. My thoughts were that I would be too nervous to follow through with the plan or that I would break character right away and laugh. I couldn’t bring a friend because I knew it would be even more difficult to keep my composure. I will give a few specific reactions I received. For round one, I walked to a row of computers and sat next to a woman who looked to be around the age of thirty. She was typing a letter or paper so I decided I would race her. I pulled up Word and started typing as fast as I could while repeatedly shooting quick glances at her. I knew how ridiculous I looked. As soon as I saw her look back out of the corner of her eye, I lost my control and laughed. I told her about my assignment and we ...
Have you ever wanted to know what makes a situation comedic? Have you ever wanted to know why people laugh at awkward situations? Have you ever tried to analyze a comedic text and figure out what makes it funny? Peter McGraw’s Benign Violation Theory, and John Morreall’s theory explains it all. Chloe Grace Mortez’s scene from Movie 43 is a skit that targets naïve men who are “clueless” about the female reproductive organ.
enjoy to be laughed at, but there is only so much one person can take.
“I shrank back-but the closing walls pressed me resistlessly onward. At length, for my scared and writhing body, there was no longer an inch of foothold on the firm of the prison.” I finally realized I had to stop analyzing the room and situation I was in and make a decision. I looked at the board that was not too far away from me. It appeared to be big enough that it would fit down against the inner walls of the pit. It was a long shot but seeing how I had no other option I went for it. Quickly I grabbed the board and threw it into the pit. Praying it would finally catch on the sides of the pit and just lay across. Thankfully my plan worked perfectly the board catches and wedges to the walls of the pit. It all happened so suddenly the walls were getting closer I
Over Thanksgiving Break, I had scheduled a doctor's appointment. The hospital that I go to is not big, but its the only one around so I knew there would be a good amount of people around to see me humiliate myself. I dressed for the occasion! Green jacket, and red tights. Of course I could never look like Buddy the Elf, but I got pretty close. When I walked into the hospital lobby, I noticed that there wasn’t anybody around, so I figured I would just have to do it a couple time in order to get some pretty good results. I...
It was almost dark when the man said maybe some flying fish will jump in our boat for us to eat. Phillip didn’t like the idea of eating raw fish but he was hungry. The next day Phillip woke up and his eyes were blurry he hey there’s something wrong with my eyes. So the man took a wet towel and put it on his head it started to get better. Then Phillip fell back asleep and when he woke up it was dark. Phillip screamed what time is it the man said ten then Phillip its nighttime right the man laughed no its morning. Phillip screamed I’m blind the man was shocked he said here look at the sun, and he pointed Phillip to the sun Phillip said its still dark. During that night he asked what his name is the man said my name is Timothy. Phillip said do you have a last name the man said no Phillip was shocked at this then Timothy said lets get some sleep we have a long day tomorrow.
... at work. My coworkers saw it as a sign of weakness and proceeded to make fun of my sensitivity for the rest of my employment. They were unaware of how their comments affected me and therefore had low emotional intelligence. Eventually, my emotions were building up inside of me and I did not want to have an angry outburst, therefore I decided to quit my job.
A female student tripped as she was going up the stairs to Spot Coffee, but did not fall. What appears to be a group of guys who are not popular (guys who are not very well known), were seating where popular students normally sat. The group of guys started laughing at the girl and stopped. One guy kept laughing, but it was obvious he was forcing the laughter to purposely attract attention. He started making jokes about the girl and carrying on the laughter so he would appear funny.
I could fall out of a stunt, would I fall, or worse, would I mess everything up. I hoped none of those would happen. A little bit after I started thinking about the worse to come, I had to jump into the car, so I could make it to my cheer competition. While I was in the car, I remember what my coach said. He said "Every single one of you are capable of going out there and giving it your all, because if you weren't than you wouldn't even be
There was a loud crash and I hit my head against the floor. Which was an odd thing to happen considering that I had been sitting up. "What the fuck." Someone said. Not a question, an exclamation.
visual impact of the scene is amusing, we laugh at this silly man talking to
After just two hours, our very large friend said he’d had enough for the day and was heading for the surface. We told him we’d be out in a few more minutes and to hang around so we could discuss what we’d found. As we began our ascent toward the entrance, we became acutely aware of the complete absence of light the entrance usually emanated. When our flashlights finally found the source of the unusual darkness we were horrified; the big guy was stuck in the cave’s opening again. This time Scott’s head and shoulders were outside, so instead of being able to pull him through, we would have to try to push him out of the opening. We pushed in every combination of ways possible, and needless to say it did not work this time. The paramount problem was that the cave floods from the interior out, so we would all drown if we couldn’t get Scott unstuck, and unstuck quickly.