Ponderings

I was thinking the other day,  as a friend was telling me a story, how when we talk about people to other people, we include their skin color. That is, if their skin color is different than our own.

Seriously, whenever a white friend of mine is telling me a story that involves someone of a different color, they make sure to include it in the story. "This black guy" or "This asian girl." I do it too when I tell stories. I am wondering if people of different races do the same thing. "This white chick."

Why do we do it? Why is it relevent to the story? I mean, really it's not. The story is the same whether the person is blue, or black, or white, or yellow, or green. It's not something that makes the story any better or changes how the story goes. It's pointless.

Another thing about stories. I dunno if this is a Minnesotan thing or a generational thing or what. But why is it, when we're laughing hysterically, we always say, "That's SO funny!" I mean, seriously. Isn't it obvious that it's funny? You're laughing so hard you're crying. I've never understood that! Again, I do that too. ALL the time. And I always laugh even more inside when I think about it after I say it. Obviously Christie knows what she said is funny, we're both rolling on the floor unable to catch out breath.

Anywho, those are my thoughts for the day.