I am fully blessed to have been appropriated a sense of humor. This humor always seems to get me through the day. Sometimes I just start laughing for no reason, and the kid's ask me " why you laughing dad?" - I sometimes share with them the source of my amusement.
About 30 years ago I was a young apprentice at an engineering firm. I would spend a few months at a time working at different divisions to try and gain company wide experience. I was attached to an installer group and would go out to job sites with the engineers.
There was one guy there, who's name has eluded me, and he would always be complaining about the overtime always going to the blacks. The dispatcher for the group was a Jamaican but quite domesticated, and he would always claim the niggers are looking after each other.
The engineer used to greet the dispatcher in the mornings at the office as Mr Babbage, and I always thought he was referring to Charles Babbage, the great mechanical computer innovator.
So I asked him once, " do you call Gilbert Mr Babbage after Charles Babbage? " - " Charles Babbage ?? " he retorted in disgust. " No, it's because he looks like a fucking baboon ! "
Jesus, life was never the same after this. Still makes me laugh for no reason when it pops into my head...fucking supermarket aisle anywhere.
Good times.