Humor

One time, at Salesforce, Lydia told a joke.

Lydia: What do you get when you pour hot water on bunnies?
Me: I dunno. Bunny stew?
Lauren: Dead bunnies?

(The correct answer, friends, is "Hot cross bunnies.")

My mother says I'm macabre. (Clearly, she hasn't met Lauren.)

"When did you get so wry, Vee?" she carps.

Let me clue you in on Liberian humor.

Mom: Pierre, I hope you bought gas for the stove or else what'll we eat?
Pierre: There's plenty of food in the bush.
Mom: I think you guys ate it all during the war.
Pierre: There is still some left.

Neither misses a beat or cracks a smile; I'm in the backseat, hysterical.

So let's be honest: a sunny disposition was never in the cards for me.