I've mentioned several times about our sense of humor there in the prison. It's pretty awful.Part of it comes down to we have to laugh or we might start screaming and not be able to stop. Some of it boils down into a very simple mathematical equation.
Everybody knows that guy jokes (GJ) are bad.
And everybody knows that prison jokes (PJ) are terrible
Therefore: GJ + PJ = GAPGJ or (Gawd Awful Prison Guy Jokes)
We often have the most juvenile sense of humor. The worse the joke is, the funnier we find it. And, of course, a good fart can send us rolling on the floor in tears.
And, after my post last night, I'm almost wondering if some of us aren't actually suffering from some sort of weird twisted type of PTSD.
It makes sense. How else could we sit in thirty acres full of murderers and meth heads and child molesters and the clinically insane and crack bad jokes?
We laugh to make the pain go away.
We laugh to keep the ghosts at bay.
We laugh to show that we aren't scared.
We are "Whistling past the graveyard".
Sometimes I look around and think "These are the lunatics that have my back?"
Yup. And the ones that laugh the loudest and the longest are usually the ones who show up when there's trouble and the ones I can rely on the most.
Maybe they can get us a clown car to drive around the yard rather then those pathetic golf carts.
I'd feel much safer.
Go ahead and laugh. It's okay.
A job that you can't have some fun doing, isn't a job worth doing. ;)
ReplyDeleteIf it weren't for our ability to go from drop dead serious to clowns on parade and back again, that place would consume us. Especially in the hive. That's one of the reasons I like to hang out by the crystal palace before shift. I think it builds a camaraderie that you don't find many places outside of a uniform. I'd take a giggling fool at my side any day before someone who can't deal with it all.
ReplyDeleteAt least you can laugh. At my old job we got in trouble if my boss heard us laughing. Never thought working at a prison would seem like a better job than mine.
ReplyDeleteThe non laugher in our office is leaving soon and we will all be glad when they are gone. None of us like or trust that person.
ReplyDeleteJust Plain Tired- If I couldn't have fun there, I wouldn't be there. I have worked (briefly) for people with no sense of humor. We clash.
ReplyDeleteDrew- I've tried to mention that to our pshrinks a few times and they just look at me funny. The overstressed need to go work in a cubicle somewhere.
Misty- I never thought someone outside the prison would envy my job. Wow.
Critter- I can't see you working around the non-laughers ever. You still got a good supply of whoopee cushions?
Nailed it, Rev.
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