Response to the Tag

Okay.  A few days ago, Keri sent out a weekly challenge — tell her about our funniest moment. I always like a challenge.  So I have been thinking about it for a little bit and thought of a few funny moments, but tonight was telling Bryan about it.  He said the moments I had thought of were pretty good, but he had a better one: when he told me and I remembered I laughed out loud at Target.  So here it is.  One of the most funny moments we have shared.  (Most of my stories are you-had-to-be-there-funny, so I hope this one isn’t.)

A little background: Bryan and I had just gotten married and were living in an apartment in Orem, over by the Scera Pool.  It was a pretty old place and it didn’t have t.v., internet, or air conditioning.  There was a small AC unit in the bedroom window that kept our bedroom cool, but only the bedroom. So we spent a lot of time in the only cool room watching DVDs of LOST on our computer and playing Roller Coaster Tycoon (a computer game).   This was the summer of 2006, so if you remember, it was a pretty warm summer (or maybe it wasn’t more warm than usual, but because we didn’t have AC it seemed like it was too warm.)  Also in an effort to keep cool, we kept a lot of Otter Pops (my favorite summer treat) in the freezer and Kool-Aid in the fridge.

It was only one or two months after we had gotten married so we were still not all the way comfortable around each other. Bryan and I had just completed a level on Roller Coaster Tycoon.  We went into the kitchen to get something to drink and were just standing talking.  I was standing in the doorway and Bryan was standing facing me drinking a glass of Kool-Aid (our kitchen was not very big and we were probably only two or so feet away from each other).  As we talked, he took a drink and pulled the cup away from his mouth; just as he pulled it down from his mouth he coughed, and coughed hard.  I stood and watched as Kool-Aid came shooting out of his mouth like a cartoon!   There was nothing I could do but watch as the mouth full of red Kool-Aid came straight for my face.

It went everywhere! It was all over my face, in my hair, all over my clothes and splattered all over the walls.  I stood frozen, not sure what to do and Bryan just started laughing so hard.  After the initial shock wore off, I realized how funny I must have looked and we both stood, me covered in Kool-Aid, laughing.  I remember cleaning that apartment before we moved and found little spots of red Kool-Aid that we missed when we cleaned up that night.  Even now as we thought about it tonight we both laughed.  I will never forget watching as the red liquid came shooting right at my face like a hose.  It was so funny.

Things like that are just great.  It reminds me of one my favorite songs by the Barenaked Ladies:

Come on now, now
Come on now, now
Enjoy the humour of the situation
Come on now, now
Come on now, now
Enjoy the humour of the situation

In life there are so many situations where we just need to step back and enjoy the humor of the situation.  Laughing about it, is sometimes the best things you can do.