My Life is a Joke...

Today I was participating in the "Monk Chat" ministry.  I enjoyed getting to talk with the monk I like to call "My friend from Mumbai".  He has been practicing his English by using a really old joke book.  We took a peek inside and saw that most jokes don't translate culturally.  He then asked us for a joke.

I told him one I found quite humorous about a pirate with a hook, bird poop, and an eye patch.  All together it is a funny joke...I think.  But after the punch line gets me tickled I look up from laughing to see my monk friend looking a little too sober for my liking.

On the walk home, my teammate and I talked about how odd our lives are.  I mean, really...we just spent the last fifteen minutes telling jokes to a monk and finally got him to laugh.  

At that point, I told my teammate that our lives are jokes right now.  Using the slurred words of the drunk American who wouldn't leave us alone during bar ministry, and shifting them into joke form when combined with our dear bartender's words: "Two religious fanatics and a Canadian walked into a Ladyboy Bar....(insert some joke story here)....and the bartender says, "I traded my lemons for coconuts!)  [THIS IS ALL BASED ON WHAT WAS ACTUALLY HAPPENED THAT NIGHT...no words are originally mine...man life is crazy!]

It just makes me think, what other things have happened that make my life seem like an intro to a joke.  I can't even remember.  Something about chickens eating Cheetos in our Haitian Church.  Basically everything about transportation in Africa.  Anything that happened in the oxygen deprived area above 16,000 ft in Bolivia.  Rounding up cattle to loud Indian music and a moped, and the time I went to the market for ice cream and came back with a packet of hair weave instead.  And pretty much anything that happened on a bus could probably be a joke in itself.  

The best part is all the odd and amazing people we have met.  I have cringed at all the awkward moments, but now I have laughter for years.  I will end my blog this way, "One more time for Kris Jenna!"

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